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Prime Ministers of Great Britain

 

Commencement of officePrime Minister  
April 1721Robert Walpole 
Feb 1742Earl of Wilmington 
Aug 1743Henry Pelham 
Mar 1754Duke of Newcastle 
Nov 1756Duke of Devonshire 
July 1757Duke of Newcastle 
May 1762Earl of Bute 
April 1763George Grenville 
July 1765Marquess of Rockingham 
July 1766Earl of Chatham (Pitt the Elder) 
Oct 1768Duke of Grafton 
Jan 1770Lord North 
Mar 1782Marquess of Rockingham 
July 1782Earl of Shelburne 
April 1783Duke of Portland 
Dec 1783William Pitt (the Younger) 
Mar 1801Henry Addington 
May 1804William Pitt (the Younger) 
Feb 1806Lord Grenville 
Mar 1807Duke of Portland 
Oct 1809Spencer Perceval 
June 1812Earl of Liverpool 
April 1827George Canning 
Aug 1827Viscount Goderich 
Jan 1828Duke of Wellington 
Nov 1830Earl Grey 
July 1834Viscount Melbourne 
Nov 1834Duke of Wellington 
Dec 1834Sir Robert Peel 
April 1835Viscount Melbourne 
Aug 1841Sir Robert Peel 
June 1846Lord John Russell 
Feb 1852Earl of Derby 
Dec 1852Earl of Aberdeen 
Feb 1855Viscount Palmerston 
Feb 1858 Earl of Derby 
June 1859 Viscount Palmerston 
Oct 1865 Earl Russell 
July 1866 Earl of Derby 
Feb 1868 Benjamin Disraeli 
Dec 1868 William Gladstone 
Feb 1874 Benjamin Disraeli 
April 1880 William Gladstone 
June 1885 Marquess of Salisbury 
Feb 1886 William Gladstone 
July 1886 Marquess of Salisbury 
Aug 1892 William Gladstone 
Mar 1894Earl of Rosebury 
June 1895 Marquess of Salisbury 
July 1902 Arthur Balfour 
Dec 1905 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 
April 1908 Herbert Asquith  
Dec 1916 David Lloyd George 
Oct 1922 Andrew Bonar Law 
May 1923 Stanley Baldwin 
Jan 1924 Ramsay MacDonald 
Nov 1924 Stanley Baldwin 
June 1929 Ramsay MacDonald 
June 1935 Stanley Baldwin 
May 1937 Neville Chamberlain 
May 1940 Winston Churchill 
July 1945 Clement Attlee 
Oct 1951 Winston Churchill 
April 1955 Sir Anthony Eden 
Jun 1957 Harold MacMillian 
Oct 1963 Sir Alec Douglas-Home 
Oct 1964 Harold Wilson 
June 1970 Edward Heath 
Mar 1974 Harold Wilson 
April 1976 James Callaghan 
May 1979 Margaret Thatcher 
Nov 1990 John Major 
May 1997 Tony Blair 

This article is based on material taken from A Traveller's History of England (© Christopher Daniell), published by The Windrush Press, and is by kind permission of its author Christopher Daniell.

 

 

 


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