List of English ministries
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This is a list of the ministries, in the sense of successive governments, of the Kingdom of England
Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...

 before its Union with the Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland
The Kingdom of Scotland was a Sovereign state in North-West Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England...

 in 1707.

King Charles II's ministries: 1660–1685

  • Clarendon Ministry
    Clarendon Ministry
    The Clarendon Ministry was forged out of the royalist camp of Charles II, who was returned to the throne in 1660. Two years previously, Lord Hyde had been appointed Lord Chancellor, and in 1660, he was joined by several other powerful statesmen, including the heir presumptive of the English...

     (1660–1667)
  • Cabal Ministry
    Cabal Ministry
    The Cabal Ministry refers to a group of high councillers of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to circa 1674.The term "Cabal" has a double meaning in this context. It refers to the fact that, for perhaps the first time in English history, effective power in a royal council...

     (1667–1673)
  • First Danby Ministry
    First Danby ministry
    The Danby Ministry was the name of the governmental body led by The Earl of Danby during the reign of Charles II. It was the successor of the Cabal Ministry which fell from power when the Catholicism of some members became a problem for parliament...

     (1673–1679)
  • Privy Council Ministry
    Privy Council Ministry
    The Privy Council Ministry was a short-lived reorganization of English government that was reformed to place the Ministry under the control of the Privy Council in April 1679, due to events in that time.-Formation:...

     (1679)
  • First Rochester Ministry
    First Rochester ministry
    -Leaders of the Ministry:*Lord Nottingham was Lord Chancellor until 1682, when Lord Guilford assumed the same position; however, the latter had not yet acceded to the peerage, and was therefore forced to assume the position of Lord Keeper...

     (1679–1684)
  • Godolphin Ministry
    Godolphin Ministry
    The Godolphin Ministry was Charles II's last ministry. Lord Godolphin took power in 1684, but after Charles's death in 1685, his successor, James II, purged the ministry of those whom he did not favour; Lord Rochester was "kicked upstairs," forming the Second Rochester Ministry.-The Ministry:...

     (1684–1685)

King James II's ministries: 1685–1688

  • Second Rochester Ministry (1685–1687)
  • Belasyse Ministry (1687–1689)

King William III and Queen Mary II's ministries: 1689–1694

  • Carmarthen/Halifax Ministry
    Carmarthen/Halifax Ministry
    The first ministry of William and Mary involved a precarious and short lived balance between erstwhile opponents Halifax and Carmarthen, as William attempted to balance the Whigs to whom he owed his initial success with the Tories he needed to maintain his position....

     (1689–1690)
  • Carmarthen Ministry (1690–1694)

King William III's ministries: 1694–1702

  • First Whig Junto
    First Whig Junto
    The First Whig Junto controlled the government of England from 1694 to 1699.Having slowly increased their presence in government under Lord Danby, the Whig Junto established dominance in 1694 with the appointment of Charles Montagu as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Danby remained in office, but the...

     (1694–1699)
  • Pembroke Ministry (1699–1702)

Queen Anne's ministries: 1702–1707

  • Coalition Ministry
    Coalition Ministry
    Upon Queen Anne's accession to the English throne in 1702, she appointed Lord Godolphin as First Lord of the Treasury and the Duke of Marlborough as Master-General of the Ordnance . They would lead this coalition of Tories and Whigs until 1708, one year after the Act of Union formed the Kingdom of...

     (1702–1708) (continued in the new Kingdom of Great Britain
    Kingdom of Great Britain
    The former Kingdom of Great Britain, sometimes described as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN. was a sovereign...

    )
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