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British Prime Ministers

Prime MinisterDates of Office
Sir Robert Walpole1721-1742
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington1742-1743
Henry Pelham1743-1754
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle1754-1756,1757-1762
William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire1756-1757
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave1757
John Stuart, Earl of Bute1762-1763
George Grenville1763-1765
Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham1765-1766
William Pitt ("The Elder"), Earl of Chatham1766-1768
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton1768-1770
Lord North1770-1782
William Petty, Earl of Shelburne1782-1783
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland1783, 1807-1809
William Pitt ("The Younger")1783-1801, 1804-1806
Henry Addington1801-04
William Wyndam Grenville, Lord Grenville1806-1807
Spencer Perceval1809-1812
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Liverpool1812-1827
George Canning1827
Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich1827-28
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington1828-1830
Earl Grey1830-1834
William Lamb, Vicount Melbourne1834, 1835-1841
Sir Robert Peel1834-1835, 1841-1846
Lord John Russell1846-1852, 1865-1866
Earl of Derby1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868
Earl of Aberdeen1852-1855
Viscount Palmerston1855-1858, 1859-1865
Benjamin Disraeli1868, 1874-1880
William Gladstone1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902
Earl of Rosebery1894-1895
Arthur Balfour1902-1905
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman1905-1908
Herbert Asquith1908-1916
David Lloyd George1916-1922
Andrew Bonar Law1922-1923
Stanley Baldwin1923, 1924-1929, 1935-1937
James Ramsay MacDonald1924, 1929-1935
Neville Chamberlain1937-1940
Winston Churchill1940-1945, 1951-1955
Clement Attlee1945-1951
Anthony Eden1955-1957
Harold Macmillan1957-1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home1963-1964
Harold Wilson1964-1970, 1974-1976
Edward Heath1970-1974
James Callaghan1976-1979
Margaret Thatcher1979-1990
John Major1990-1997
Tony Blair1997-2007
Gordon Brown2007-2010
David Cameron2010-2016
Theresa May2016-

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