RNCLIFFE.
_Lord Privy Seal_ DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
_Home Secretary_ Sir JAMES GRAHAM.
_Foreign Secretary_ EARL OF ABERDEEN.
_Colonial Secretary_ LORD STANLEY
(afterwards Earl of Derby).
_First Lord of the Admiralty_ EARL OF HADDINGTON.
_President of the Board of Control_ LORD (afterwards Earl of)
ELLENBOROUGH
_Secretary at War_ Sir HENRY (afterwards
Viscount) HARDINGE.
_President of the Board of Trade_ EARL OF RIPON.
_Paymaster-General_. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL.

[Footnote 75: The Peel Ministry of 1841 was unique in
containing three ex-Premiers: Sir Robert Peel himself, the
Earl of Ripon, and the Duke of Wellington, who succeeded Lord
Goderich as Premier in 1828. Ripon's career was a curious one;
he was a singularly ineffective Prime Minister, and indeed did
not, during the course of his Ministry (August 1827-January
1828), ever have to meet Parliament. He was disappointed
at not being invited to join the Wellington Ministry,
subsequently joined the Reform Ministry of Lord Grey, but
followed Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the Duke of
Richmond out of it. In August 1841 he moved the vote of want
of confidence in the Melbourne Ministry, and became President
of the Board of Trade in Peel's Government. In 1846 it fell to
him, when President of the Board of Control, to move the Corn
Law Repeal Bill in the Lords.

The only later instance of an ex-Premier accepting a
subordinate office was in the case of Lord John Russell, who,
in 1852, took the Foreign Office under Aberdeen, subsequently
vacating the office and sitting in the Cabinet without office.
In June 1854, he became Lord President of the Council, and
left the Ministry when it was menaced by Roebuck's motion.
When Lord Palmerston formed a Ministry in 1855, Lord John,
after an interval, became Colonial Secretary, again resigning
in five months. Finally, in 1859, he went back to the Foreign
Office, where he remained until he succeeded Palmerston as
Premier in 1865.

The Government also contained three future Premiers, Aberdeen,
Stanley, and Gladstone.]