Lord chancellor, Lord Hatherly (Page Wood).
President of the council, Earl de Grey (created Marquis of Ripon, 1871).
Lord privy seal, Earl of Kimberley.
Chancellor of the exchequer, Robert Lowe.
Home secretary, Henry Austin Bruce.
Foreign secretary, Earl of Clarendon.
Colonial secretary, Earl Granville.
War secretary, Edward Cardwell.
First lord of the admiralty, H. C. E. Childers.
Indian secretary, Duke of Argyll.