Third Thatcher ministry replaces Second Thatcher ministry
July 1989 to November 1990
Margaret Thatcher – Prime Minister
Sir Geoffrey Howe – Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council
The Lord Mackay of Clashfern – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
The Lord Belstead – Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
Nigel Lawson – Chancellor of the Exchequer
Norman Lamont – Chief Secretary to the Treasury
John Major – Foreign Secretary
Douglas Hurd – Home Secretary
John Gummer – Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Tom King – Secretary of State for Defence
John MacGregor – Secretary of State for Education
Norman Fowler – Secretary of State for Employment
John Wakeham – Secretary of State for Energy
Chris Patten – Secretary of State for the Environment
Kenneth Clarke – Secretary of State for Health
Kenneth Baker – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Peter Brooke – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Malcolm Rifkind – Secretary of State for Scotland
Tony Newton – Secretary of State for Social Security
Nicholas Ridley – Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade
Cecil Parkinson – Secretary of State for Transport
Peter Walker – Secretary of State for Wales
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