regretting that I am unable to accept your kind invitation to become a Patron of the Victory Club for Ladies but I am afraid, however, that my official work makes this impossible..., 11 Downing Street headed paper, 17th July
Law first held Cabinet office as Secretary of State for the Colonies in H. H. Asquith's Coalition Government (May 1915 – December 1916). Upon Asquith's fall from power he declined to form a government, instead becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer in David Lloyd George's Coalition Government. He resigned on grounds of ill health early in 1921.