British Prime Ministers
No. Prime Minister In Office Politics Lived
1 Robert Walpole 1721 to 1742 Whig 1676 to 1745
2 Earl of Wilmington 1742 to 1743 Whig c. 1673 to 1743
3 Henry Pelham 1743 to 1754 Whig 1696 to 1754
4 Duke of Newcastle 1754 to 1756
1757 to 1762 		Whig 1693 to 1768
5 Duke of Devonshire 1756 to 1757 Whig 1720 to 1764
6 Earl of Bute 1762 to 1763 Tory 1713 to 1792
7 George Grenville 1763 to 1765 Whig 1712 to 1770
8 Marquess of Rockingham 1765 to 1766
1782 to 1782 		Whig 1730 to 1782
9 Earl of Chatham 1766 to 1768 Whig 1708 to 1778
10 Duke of Grafton 1768 to 1770 Whig 1735 to 1811
11 Lord North
(Frederick North) 		1770 to 1782 Tory 1732 to 1792
12 Earl of Sherburne 1782 to 1783 Whig 1737 to 1805
13 Duke of Portland
(William Henry Cavendish Bentinck) 		1783 to 1783
1807 to 1809 		Tory 1738 to 1809
14 William Pitt 1783 to 1801
1804 to 1806 		Tory 1759 to 1806
15 Henry Addington 1801 to 1804 Tory 1757 to 1844
16 Lord Grenville 1806 to 1807 Whig 1759 to 1834
17 Spencer Perceval 1809 to 1812 Tory 1762 to 1812
18 Lord Liverpool 1812 to 1827 Tory 1770 to 1828
19 George Canning 1827 to 1827 Tory 1770 to 1827
20 Viscount Goderich 1827 to 1828 Tory 1782 to 1859
21 Duke of Wellington 1828 to 1830 Tory 1769 to 1852
22 Earl Grey
(Charles Grey) 		1830 to 1834 Whig 1764 to 1845
23 Viscount Melbourne 1834 to 1834
1835 to 1841 		Whig 1779 to 1848
24 Sir Robert Peel 1834 to 1835
1841 to 1846 		Tory 1788 to 1850
25 Lord John Russell 1846 to 1852
1865 to 1866 		Whig 1792 to 1878
26 Earl of Derby 1852 to 1852
1858 to 1859
1866 to 1868 		Conservative 1799 to 1869
27 Earl of Aberdeen 1852 to 1855 Tory 1784 to 1860
28 Viscount Palmerston
(Henry John Temple) 		1855 to 1858
1859 to 1865 		Liberal 1784 to 1865
29 Benjamin Disraeli 1868 to 1868
1874 to 1880 		Conservative 1804 to 1881
30 William Ewart Gladstone 1868 to 1874
1880 to 1885
1886 to 1886
1892 to 1894 		Liberal 1809 to 1898
31 Marquess of Salisbury 1885 to 1886
1886 to 1892
1895 to 1902 		Conservative 1830 to 1903
32 Earl of Rosebery 1894 to 1895 Liberal 1847 to 1929
33 Arthur James Balfour 1902 to 1905 Conservative 1848 to 1930
34 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905 to 1908 Liberal 1836 to 1908
35 Herbert Henry Asquith 1908 to 1916 Liberal 1852 to 1928
36 David Lloyd George 1916 to 1922 Liberal 1863 to 1945
37 Andrew Bonar Law 1922 to 1923 Conservative 1858 to 1923
38 Stanley Baldwin 1923 to 1923
1924 to 1929
1935 to 1937 		Conservative 1867 to 1947
39 James Ramsay MacDonald 1924 to 1924
1929 to 1935 		Labour 1866 to 1937
40 Arthur Neville Chamberlain 1937 to 1940 Conservative 1869 to 1940
41 Sir Winston Spencer Churchill 1940 to 1945
1951 to 1955 		Conservative 1874 to 1965
42 Clement Richard Attlee 1945 to 1951 Labour 1883 to 1967
43 Sir Robert Anthony Eden 1955 to 1957 Conservative 1897 to 1977
44 Harold MacMillan 1957 to 1963 Conservative 1894 to 1986
45 Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1963 to 1964 Conservative 1903 to 1995
46 Harold Wilson 1964 to 1970
1974 to 1976 		Labour 1916 to 1995
47 Edward Heath 1970 to 1974 Conservative 1916 to 2005
48 James Callaghan 1976 to 1979 Labour 1912 to
49 Margaret Hilda Thatcher 1979 to 1990 Conservative 1925 to
50 John Major 1990 to 1997 Conservative 1943 to
51 Anthony Charles Lynton Blair 1997 to Labour 1953 to

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