_Admiralty_:-- _First Lord--(See under_ Cabinet). _First Sea Lord_--Admiral H.S.H. Prince Louis of Battenberg, G.C.B., till October 29; thereafter Lord Fisher of Kilverstone. _Civil Lord_--George Lambert. _Parliamentary and Financial Secretary_--Thomas James Macnamara. _War Office_:-- _War Secretary--(See under_ Cabinet). _Financial Secretary_--Harold Baker. _Parliamentary Under-Secretaries_:-- _Home Office_--Ellis J. Griffith. _Foreign Office_--Francis Dyke Acland. _War Office_--H. J. Tennant. _Colonial Office_--Lord Emmott till August 5; thereafter Lord Islington. _India Office_--Hon. E. S. Montagu till August 5; thereafter C. H. Roberts. _Board of Trade_--J. M. Robertson. _Local Government Board_--J. Herbert Lewis. _Board of Education_--C. P. Trevelyan till August 6; thereafter Christopher Addison. _Board of Agriculture_--Lord Lucas till August 5; thereafter Sir H. Verney, Bt. _Treasury_:-- _Junior Lords_--John W. Gulland; W. Wedgwood Benn; W. Jones; H. Webb. _Financial Secretary_--C. F. G. Masterman till February 11; thereafter Hon. E. S. Montagu. _Parliamentary Secretary_--P. H. Illingworth. _Paymaster-General_--Lord Strachie. _Attorney-General--(See under_ Cabinet). _Solicitor-General_--Sir Stanley Owen Buckmaster, K.C. SCOTLAND. _Lord Advocate_--Robert Munro, K.C. _Solicitor-General_--T. B. Morison. IRELAND. _Lord-Lieutenant_--Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. _Lord Chancellor_--Ignatius John O'Brien, K.C. _Attorney-General_--John F. Moriarty, K.C., till his appointment as Lord Justice of Appeal on June 18; thereafter Jonathan Pim, K.C. _Solicitor-General_--Jonathan Pim, K.C., till his appointment as Attorney-General; thereafter James O'Connor, K.C. ANNUAL REGISTER FOR THE YEAR 1914. PART I. ENGLISH HISTORY. CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE SESSION.