– Sir Thomas Inskip succeeds Malcolm MacDonald as Dominions Secretary. MacDonald remains Colonial Secretary. Lord Chatfield succeeds Inskip as Minister for Coordination of Defence. William Morrison succeeds Lord Winterton at the Duchy of Lancaster, who becomes Paymaster-General outside the Cabinet. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith succeeds Morrison as Minister of Agriculture. Lord Winterton leaves the Cabinet and the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, becoming Paymaster-General in succession to the Earl of Munster. April 1939 – Leslie Burgin becomes Minister without Portfolio pending the legislation to create the Ministry of Supply. He is succeeded as Minister of Transport by Euan Wallace. June 1939 – Herwald Ramsbotham succeeds Sir Philip Sassoon (deceased) as First Commissioner of Works and is succeeded as Minister of Pensions by Sir Walter Womersley. July 1939 – Leslie Burgin becomes Minister of Supply. List of ministers Members of the Cabinet are in bold face. Notes References Bibliography Secondary sources Butler, David, and Butler, G. Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000 Cowling, Maurice. The Impact of Hitler: British Politics and British Policy, 1933–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1975). Feiling, Keith. A Life of Neville Chamberlain (London: Macmillan, 1970) Macklin, Graham. Chamberlain (Haus Books, 2006) Mowat, Charles Loch. Britain between the Wars: 1918–1945 (1955), pp. 413–79 Raymond, John, ed. The Baldwin Age (1960), essays by scholars 252 pages; online Roberts, Andrew. 'The Holy Fox': The Life of Lord Halifax (1997). Self, Robert C. Neville Chamberlain: A Biography (2006) excerpt and text search Smart, Nick. The National Government. 1931–40 (Macmillan 1999) Taylor, A. J. P. English History 1914–1945 (1965), pp. 321–88 Thorpe, Andrew. Britain in the 1930s. The Deceptive Decade, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992). Primary sources Chamberlain, Neville. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street Years, 1934–1940 edited by Robert Self (2005) 1930s in the United Kingdom 1937 establishments in the United Kingdom 1939 disestablishments in the United Kingdom British ministries Cabinets disestablished in 1939 Cabinets established in 1937 Coalition governments of the United Kingdom Interwar Britain Ministries of George VI Ministry 1