First Pitt ministry

Cabinet

Changes

• March 1784The Duke of Rutland becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
• December 1784Lord Gower succeeds Rutland as Lord Privy Seal. Lord Camden succeeds Gower as Lord President.
• November 1787Lord Buckingham succeeds Rutland as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• July 1788Lord Chatham, Pitt's elder brother, succeeds Lord Howe as First Lord of the Admiralty.
• June 1789William Grenville succeeds Lord Sydney as Home Secretary.
• October 1789Lord Westmorland succeeds Buckingham as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• June 1791
• *Grenville succeeds the Duke of Leeds as Foreign Secretary.
• *Henry Dundas succeeds Grenville as Home Secretary.
• *Lord Hawkesbury, the President of the Board of Trade, joins the Cabinet.
• June 1792Lord Thurlow resigns as Lord Chancellor. The Great Seal goes into commission.
• January 1793Lord Loughborough becomes Lord Chancellor.
• July 1794
• *Lord Fitzwilliam succeeds Camden as Lord President.
• *Dundas takes the new Secretaryship of State for War, while the Duke of Portland succeeds him as Home Secretary.
• *Lord Spencer succeeds Stafford as Lord Privy Seal.
• *William Windham enters the Cabinet as Secretary at War.
• December 1794
• *Chatham succeeds Spencer as Lord Privy Seal.
• *Spencer succeeds Chatham as First Lord of the Admiralty.
• *Fitzwilliam succeeds Westmorland as Viceroy of Ireland.
• *Lord Mansfield succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord President.
• February 1795Lord Cornwallis succeeds the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the Ordnance.
• March 1795Camden succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• September 1796Chatham succeeds Mansfield as Lord President. Chatham remains Lord Privy Seal.
• February 1798Westmorland succeeds Chatham as Lord Privy Seal. Chatham remains Lord President.
• June 1798Cornwallis succeeds Camden as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Master-General of the Ordnance.
• February 1801Grenville, Spencer, and Windham resign from the Cabinet. The first two are succeeded by Lord Hawkesbury and Lord St Vincent, while Windham's successor is not in the Cabinet.