Ramsay MacDonald
- Ramsay MacDonald - Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
- Lord Sankey - Lord Chancellor*
- Stanley Baldwin - Lord President**
- Lord Snowden - Lord Privy Seal*
- Neville Chamberlain - Chancellor of the Exchequer**
- Sir Herbert Samuel - Home Secretary***
- Sir John Simon - Foreign Secretary****
- Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister - Colonial Secretary**
- J.H. Thomas - Dominions Secretary*
- Lord Hailsham - Secretary of State for War and Leader of the House of Lords**
- Sir Samuel Hoare - Secretary of State for India**
- Lord Londonderry - Secretary for Air**
- Sir Archibald Sinclair - Secretary of State for Scotland***
- Sir B. Eyres-Monsell - First Lord of the Admiralty**
- Walter Runciman - President of the Board of Trade****
- Sir John Gilmour - Minister of Agriculture*****
- Sir D. Maclean - President of the Board of Education***
- Sir Henry Betterton - Minister of Labour**
- Sir E. Hilton-Young - Minister of Health**
- William Ormsby-Gore - First Commissioner of Works**
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Changes
- September 1932 - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Lord Snowden as Lord Privy Seal. Sir John Gilmour succeeds Sir Herbert Samuel as Home Secretary. Sir Godfrey Collins**** succeeds Sir Archibald Sinclair as Scottish Secretary. Walter Elliot***** succeeds Sir John Gilmour as Minister of Agriculture. Lord Irwin** succeeds Sir Donald Maclean as President of the Board of Education.
- December 1933 - Stanley Baldwin ceases to be Lord Privy Seal, and his successor in that office is not in the cabinet. He continues as Lord President. Kingsley Wood** enters the cabinet as Postmaster-General.
- June 1934 - Oliver Stanley** succeeds Sir H. Betterton as Minister of Labour
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Key
- *=Member of the National Labour Party
- **=Member of the Conservative Party
- ***=Member of the Liberal Party
- ****=Member of the National Liberal Party
- *****=Member of the Scottish Unionist Party, which took the Conservative Whip invariably.
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Notes
- ^ Marquand, David: Ramsay MacDonald, London, 1977, pp. 4, 5
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p.6
- ^ Drainie School log books
- ^ Lord Elton: The life of James Ramsay MacDonald, 1939, London, p. 39
- ^ Bryher, Samual: An Account of the Labour and Socialist Movement in Bristol, 1929
- ^ Elton, op. cit., p.44
- ^ Marquand, David: op.cit., 9. 17
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p. 19
- ^ Tracey, Herbert: J. Ramsay MacDonald, 1924, p.29
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p.20
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p.21
- ^ MacDonald Papers P.R.O. 3/57
- ^ MacDonald Papers P.R.O. 5/54
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p. 23
- ^ Elton, op.cit.,pp 56, 57
- ^ Obrien, Conor Cruise: Parnell and his Party, 1957, p. 275
- ^ Sidney Webb to MacDonald, 22 January 1890, MacDonald Papers P.R.O. 5/1
- ^ Sidney Webb to MacDonald, 22 January 1890, MacDonald Papers P.R.O. 5/1
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p. 31
- ^ Dover Express, 17 June 1892; 12 August 1892
- ^ Dover Express, 7 October, 1892
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p35
- ^ Southampton Times, 21 July 1894
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p.73
- ^ Mackintosh, John P (Ed.): British Prime Ministers in the twentieth Century, London, 1977, p.157
- ^ MacDonald Papers, P.R.O. 3/95
- ^ Clegg, H.A, Fox, Alan, Thompson, A.F.: A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, 1964, vol I, p. 388
- ^ Leicester Pioneer, 20 January , 1906
- ^ Leicester Pioneer, 11 February 1911
- ^ Thompson, Laurence: The Enthusiasts, 1971, p. 173
- ^ Marquand, op. cit., p. 77
- ^ Marquand, op. cit., p. 168
- ^ Marquand, op. cit., p. 168
- ^ MacKintosh, John P (Ed.):British Prime Ministers in the Twentieth Century, London, 1977, p.159
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p.189
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., pp 190, 191
- ^ Elton, op.cit., pp. 269-71
- ^ New Leader, 17 November 1922
- ^ MacDonald Papers, P.R.O.I/86
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., pp.329-51
- ^ Limam: The First Labour Government, 1924, p. 173
- ^ Hansard (1924), vol. 169, cols. 768-9
- ^ Lyman: The First Labour Government, 1924, pp. 195-6
- ^ Lyman: The First Labour Government, 1924, p. 204
- ^ Cabinet Minutes, 54(24)
- ^ Marquand, op. cit., p. 378
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., p. 382
- ^ MacDonalds Diary, P.R.O. classification 8/1, entry 31 October 1924
- ^ A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900, Research Paper 99/111, 1999, House of Commons Library
- ^ labourhistory.org
- ^ Attlee, Clement As it Happened Heinemann 1954
- ^ brimovie.co.uk
- ^ The Telegraph: Secret love affair of Labour Prime Minister and Lady Margaret is revealed 80 years on
- ^ Marquand, op.cit., pp 190, 191
- ^ McConnachie, John: The Moray Golf Club at Lossiemouth, 1988
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Further reading
Wikisource has original works written by or about:
- Jane Cox, A Singular Marriage: a Labour Love Story in Letters and Diaries (of Ramsay and Margaret MacDonald), Harrap, London 1988
- Lord Elton, The Life of James Ramsay MacDonald 1939
- Bernard Barker (editor), Ramsay MacDonald's Political Writings, Allen Lane, London 1972
- David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, Jonathan Cape, London 1977
- Greg Rosen (ed), Dictionary of Labour Biography. Politicos Publishing, London, 2001. ISBN 1188
- Greg Rosen, Old Labour to New, Politicos Publishing, London 2005.
- Ramsay MacDonald, The Socialist Movement, 1911
- Ramsay MacDonald, Labour and Peace, Labour Party 1912
- Ramsay MacDonald, Parliament and Revolution, Labour Party 1919
- Ramsay MacDonald, Foreign Policy of the Labour Party, Labour Party 1923
- Ramsay MacDonald, Margaret Ethel MacDonald, 1924
- McConnachie, John: The Moray Golf Club at Lossiemouth, 1988. ISBN:
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- A left-wing criticism of Macdonald's career
- More about Ramsay MacDonald on the Downing Street website.
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