Clement Attlee's 1945 Cabinet

Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee (seated in front row, centre), with members of his new cabinet in the garden of No 10 Downing Street in London following Labour's victory in the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 23rd August 1945. Front row, left to right: Leader of the House of Lords Christopher Addison, Lord Chancellor William Jowitt, President of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal Arthur Greenwood, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, Clement Attlee, Leader of the House of Commons Herbert Morrison, Chancellor Hugh Dalton, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Alexander, Home Secretary James Chuter Ede, and Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson. Middle row, left to right: Minister of Food Ben Smith, Minister of Supply John Wilmot, Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Labour George Isaacs, Secretary of State for Air William Wedgwood Benn, Colonies Secretary George Hall, Secretary of State for India and Burma Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for War Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for Scotland Joseph Westwood, Minister of Fuel and Power Manny Shinwell, Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams, Minister of Works George Tomlinson and Minister of War Transport Alfred Barnes. Back row from left, William Whiteley, Sir Edward Bridges, Sir Frank Soskice, John Hynd, William Hare Earl of Listowel, Ted Williams, Lewis Silkin, Jim Griffiths, Reginald Fletcher Baron Winster, Philip Noel-Baker, Wilfred Paling, Hartley Shawcross and Norman Brook. (Photo by James Jarche/Popperfoto via Getty Images)