page_title: Aberdeen ministry
section_title: December 1852 – February 1855
hierarchical_section_title: Aberdeen ministry / Cabinet / December 1852 – February 1855
caption_attribution_description: English: Coalition Government 1852–1855: George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870), Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), William Gladstone (1809-1898), Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet (1792-1861), Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891), Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet (1799-1882), Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-1885), Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810-1861), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet (1810-1855), Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878)
context_page_description: After the collapse of Lord Derby's minority government, the Whigs and Peelites formed a coalition under the Peelite leader Lord Aberdeen. The government resigned in early 1855 after a large parliamentary majority voted for a select committee to enquire into the incompetent management of the Crimean War. The former Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston, then formed his first government.
context_section_description: † After June 1854 office became Secretary of State for War.
caption: The Coalition Ministry of 1854 as painted by Sir John Gilbert (1855)
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