Colonies Malcolm MacDonald – Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Leslie Hore-Belisha – Secretary of State for War The Marquess of Zetland – Secretary of State for India and Burma The Viscount Swinton – Secretary of State for Air Walter Elliot – Secretary of State for Scotland Duff Cooper – First Lord of the Admiralty Oliver Stanley – President of the Board of Trade The Earl Stanhope – President of the Board of Education William Shepherd Morrison – Minister of Agriculture Ernest Brown – Minister of Labour Sir Kingsley Wood – Minister of Health Leslie Burgin – Minister of Transport Sir Thomas Inskip – Minister for Coordination of Defence For a full list of ministerial office-holders, see National Government 1935-1940. Key office holders not in the Cabinet The Earl Winterton – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Lord Hutchison – Paymaster-General Herwald Ramsbotham – Minister of Pensions George Tryon – Postmaster General Sir Philip Sassoon – First Commissioner of Works Sir Donald Somervell – Attorney General Sir Terence O'Connor – Solicitor General David Margesson – Chief Whip Osmund Somers Cleverly – Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Changes February 1938 – Lord Halifax succeeds Eden as Foreign Secretary. Halifax is succeeded as Lord President by Lord Hailsham, who is succeeded as Lord Chancellor by Lord Maugham. Halifax is succeeded as Leader of the House of Lords by Lord Stanhope, who remains President of the Board of Education as well. March 1938 – Lord Winterton, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, enters the Cabinet. May 1938 – Orsmby-Gore inherits the title Baron Harlech. He subsequently steps down from the government and is succeeded by Malcolm MacDonald as Colonial Secretary. Lord Stanley succeeds MacDonald as Dominions Secretary. Kingsley Wood succeeds Lord Swinton as Secretary of State for Air. Walter Elliot succeeds Wood as Minister of Health. John Colville succeeds Elliot as Scottish Secretary. June 1938 – The Earl of Munster succeeds Lord Hutchison as Paymaster-General. October 1938 – Lord Stanhope succeeds Duff Cooper (resigned) as First Lord of the Admiralty, remaining also Leader of the House of Lords. Lord De La Warr succeeds Stanhope at the Board of Education. Sir John Anderson succeeds De La Warr as Lord Privy Seal, with special responsibility for Air Raid Precautions. Malcolm MacDonald succeeds Stanley (deceased) as Dominions Secretary, remaining also Colonial Secretary. Lord Runciman succeeds Lord Hailsham as Lord President. January 1939