| Office | Name | Party | Date | Notes |
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Prime Minister,
First Lord of the Treasury
and Leader of the House of Lords | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | Peelite | 19 December 1852 – 30 January 1855 | |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | William Ewart Gladstone | Peelite | 30 December 1852 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | William Goodenough Hayter | Whig | 5 January 1853 | |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | James Wilson | Whig | 5 January 1853 | |
| Junior Lords of the Treasury | Lord Alfred Hervey | Peelite | 1 January 1853 – 7 March 1855 | |
| Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho | Whig | 1 January 1853 – 7 March 1855 |
| John Sadleir | Independent Irish Party | 1 January 1853 – 6 March 1854 |
| Chichester Fortescue | Whig | 6 March 1854 – 16 April 1855 |
| Lord Chancellor | Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth | Whig | 28 December 1852 | |
| Lord President of the Council | Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville | Whig | 28 December 1852 | |
| Lord John Russell | Whig | 12 June 1854 | also Leader of the House of Commons |
| Lord Privy Seal | George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | Peelite | 4 January 1853 | |
| Secretary of State for the Home Department | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Whig | 28 December 1852 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | Henry Fitzroy | Peelite | 28 December 1852 | |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Lord John Russell | Whig | 28 December 1852 | also Leader of the House of Commons |
| George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon | Whig | 21 February 1853 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse | Whig | 28 December 1852 | |
| Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle | Peelite | 28 December 1852 | department abolished 10 June 1854 |
| Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | Frederick Peel | Peelite | 28 December 1852 |
| Secretary of State for War | Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle | Peelite | 12 June 1854 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for War | Henry Roberts | | 12 June 1854 | |
| Secretary of State for the Colonies | Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet | Whig | 12 June 1854 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | Frederick Peel | Whig | 12 June 1854 | |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet | Peelite | 30 December 1852 | |
| First Secretary of the Admiralty | Ralph Bernal Osborne | Whig | 6 January 1853 | |
| Civil Lord of the Admiralty | William Francis Cowper | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| President of the Board of Control | Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Joint Secretaries to the Board of Control | Robert Lowe | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Sir Thomas Redington | Whig | 30 December 1852 | (permanent) |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Edward Strutt | Radical | 3 January 1853 | |
| Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville | Whig | 21 June 1854 |
| Minister without Portfolio | Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne | Whig | 28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858 | |
| Lord John Russell | Whig | 26 February 1853 – 8 June 1854 | also Leader of the House of Commons |
| Secretary at War | Sidney Herbert | Peelite | 30 December 1852 | |
| First Commissioner of Works | Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet | Radical | 5 January 1853 | |
| President of the Board of Health | Sir Benjamin Hall, 1st Baronet | Whig | 14 January 1854 | |
| Chief Secretary for Ireland | Sir John Young, 2nd Baronet | Peelite | 6 January 1853 | |
| Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans | Peelite | 5 January 1853 | |
| Master-General of the Ordnance | Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan | non-party | 30 September 1852 | continued in office |
| Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance | Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross | non-party | 6 May 1854 | |
| Surveyor-General of the Ordnance | Lauderdale Maule | Whig | 5 January 1853 | died 1 August 1854 |
| Clerk of the Ordnance | William Monsell | Whig | 13 January 1853 | |
| Storekeeper of the Ordnance | Sir Thomas Hastings | non-party | 25 July 1845 | continued in office |
| Paymaster General | Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley | Whig | 5 January 1853 | |
| Postmaster-General | Charles Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning | Peelite | 5 January 1853 | |
| President of the Poor Law Board | Matthew Talbot Baines | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board | Grenville Berkeley | Whig | 7 January 1853 | |
| President of the Board of Trade | Edward Cardwell | Peelite | 28 December 1852 | |
| Vice-President of the Board of Trade | Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley | Whig | 4 January 1853 | |
| Attorney General | Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet | Whig | 28 December 1852 | |
| Solicitor General | Sir Richard Bethell | Whig | 28 December 1852 | |
| Judge Advocate General | Charles Pelham Villiers | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Lord Advocate | James Moncreiff | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Solicitor General for Scotland | Robert Handyside | | 17 January 1853 | |
| James Craufurd | | 16 November 1853 |
| Thomas Mackenzie | | 11 January 1855 |
| Attorney General for Ireland | Abraham Brewster | Peelite | April 1853 | |
| Solicitor General for Ireland | William Keogh | Independent Irish Party | April 1853 | |
| Lord Steward of the Household | Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk | Whig | 4 January 1853 | |
| Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer | Whig | 10 January 1854 |
| Lord Chamberlain of the Household | John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane | Whig | 15 January 1853 | |
| Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | Lord Ernest Bruce | Peelite | 30 December 1852 | |
| Master of the Horse | Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington | Conservative | 21 January 1853 | |
| Treasurer of the Household | George Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave | Whig | 4 January 1853 | |
| Comptroller of the Household | Archibald Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig | Conservative | 4 January 1853 | |
| Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | John Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney | Whig; | 30 December 1852 | |
| Master of the Buckhounds | John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal | Lord Alfred Paget | Whig | 30 December 1852 | |
| Mistress of the Robes | Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland | Whig | 15 January 1853 | |
| Lords in Waiting | John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde | Whig | 11 January 1853 – 25 September 1854 | |
| Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers | Peelite | 13 January 1853 – 22 February 1857 |
| Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys | Whig | 13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858 |
| John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone | Whig | 13 January 1853 – 1 October 1853 |
| George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers | Peelite | 13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858 |
| Henry Cavendish, 3rd Baron Waterpark | Whig | 13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858 |
| George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley | Whig | 13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858 |
| William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel | Whig | 1 October 1853 – 21 February 1856 |
| Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye | Whig | 28 November 1854 – 21 February 1858 |
