Third Lyons ministry

Third Lyons ministry
22nd Ministry of Australia
Joseph Lyons Earle Page
Date formed	9 November 1934
Date dissolved	29 November 1937
People and organisations
Monarch	George V Edward VIII George VI
Governor-General	Sir Isaac Isaacs Lord Gowrie
Prime Minister	Joseph Lyons
No. of ministers	15
Member party	United Australia–Country coalition
Status in legislature	Majority government
Opposition party	Labor
Opposition leader	James Scullin John Curtin
History
Outgoing election	23 October 1937
Legislature term	14th
Predecessor	Second Lyons ministry
Successor	Fourth Lyons ministry

The Third Lyons ministry (United Australia–Country Coalition) was the 22nd ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 10th Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons. The Third Lyons ministry succeeded the Second Lyons ministry, which dissolved on 9 November 1934 after Lyons entered into a formal Coalition with Earle Page and his Country Party; the second such coalition after that of the Bruce government. The ministry was replaced by the Fourth Lyons ministry on 29 November 1937 following the 1937 federal election.^[1]

Robert Menzies, who died in 1978, was the last surviving member of the Third Lyons ministry; Menzies was also the last surviving member of the Second Lyons ministry. Harold Thorby was the last surviving Country minister.