British Prime
Ministers
Chronological List
1721-1742 - Sir Robert
Walpole
1742-1743 - Earl of Wilmington, Spencer Compton
1743-1754 - Henry Pelham
1754-1756 - 1st Duke of Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles
1756-1757 - 4th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish
1757-1761 - 1st Earl of Chatham, William Pitt (The Elder)
1761-1762 - Pelham-Holles
1762-1763 - 3rd Earl of Bute, John Stuart
1763-1765 - George Grenville
1765-1766 - 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth
1766-1768 - Chatham
1768-1770 - 3rd Duke of Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy
1770-1782 - Frederick, Lord North
1782 - Rockingham
1782-1783 - 2nd Earl of Shelburne, William Petty FitzMaurice
1783 - 3rd Duke of Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck
1783-1801 - William Pitt (The Younger)
1801-1804 - Henry Addington
1804-1806 - Pitt (The Younger)
1806-1807 - William Wyndham Grenville
1807-1809 - Portland
1809-1812 - Spencer Perceval
1812-1827 - 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson
1827 - George Canning
1827-1828 - 1st Earl of Ripon, Frederick John Robinson
1828-1830 - 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellsely
1830-1834 - 2nd Earl Grey, Charles Grey
1834 - 2nd Viscount Melbourne, William Lamb
1834-1835 - Sir Robert Peel
1835-1841 - Melbourne
1841-1846 - Peel
1846-1852 - 1st Earl Russell, John Russell
1852 - 14th Earl of Derby, Edward Geoffrey-Smith Stanley Derby
1852-1855 - 4th Earl of Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen
1855-1858 - 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Henry John Temple Palmerston
1858-1859 - Derby
1859-1865 - Palmerston
1865-1866 - Russell
1866-1868 - Derby
1868 - Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
1868-1874 - William Ewart Gladstone
1874-1880 - Disraeli
1880-1885 - Gladstone
1885-1886 - 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot-Gascoyne-Cecil
Salsibury
1886 - Gladstone
1886-1892 - Salisbury
1892-1894 - Gladstone
1894-1895 - 5th Earl of Rosebery, Archibald Philip-Primrose
1895-1902 - Salisbury
1902-1905 - 1st Earl of Balfour, Arthur James Balfour
1905-1908 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1908-1916 - 1st Earl of Oxford, Herbert Henry Asquith
1916-1922 - 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, David Lloyd George
1922-1923 - Andrew Bonar Law
1923-1924 - 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Stanley Baldwin
1924 - James Ramsey MacDonald
1924-1929 - Baldwin
1929-1935 - MacDonald
1935-1937 - Baldwin
1937-1940 - Neville Chamberlain
1940-1945 - Sir Winston Churchill
1945-1951 - Earl Atlee, Clement Atlee
1951-1955 - Churchill
1955-1957 - Earl of Avon, Anthony Eden
1957-1963 - Earl of Stockton, Harold Macmillan
1963-1964 - Lord Home of the Hisel, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
1964-1970 - Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, Harold Wilson
1970-1974 - Edward Heath
1974-1976 - Wilson
1976-1979 - Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, James Callaghan
1979-1990 - Baroness Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher
1990-1997 - John Major
1997-present - Tony Blair
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