Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Catalogs
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A chronological list of the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom (from 1801) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (until 1800). Note that the post did not officially exist before 1905, and lists differ somewhat.
Prime Ministers of the Kingdom of Great Britain
- Robert Walpole from 1721 – 1742
- Earl of Wilmington from 1742 – 1743
- Henry Pelham from 1743 –1754
- Duke of Newcastle from 1754 – 1756
- Duke of Devonshire from 1756 – 1757
- Duke of Newcastle from 1757 – 1762
- Earl of Bute from 1762 – 1763
- George Grenville from 1763 – 1765
- Marquess of Rockingham from 1765 – 1766
- Earl of Chatham from 1766 – 1767
- Duke of Grafton from 1767 – 1770
- Lord North from 1770 – 1782
- Marquess of Rockingham in 1782
- Earl of Shelburne from 1782 – 1783
- Duke of Portland in 1783
- William Pitt from 1783
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
- William Pitt until 16 February 1801
- Henry Addington from 1801 – 1804
- William Pitt from 1804 – 1806
- Lord Grenville from 1806 – 1807
- Duke of Portland from 1807 – 1809
- Spencer Perceval from 1809 – 1812
- Earl of Liverpool from 1812 – 1827
- George Canning in 1827
- Viscount Goderich from 1827 – 1828
- Duke of Wellington from 1828 – 1830
- Earl Grey from 1830 – 1834
- Viscount Melbourne in 1834
- Robert Peel from 1834 – 1835
- Viscount Melbourne from 1835 – 1841
- Robert Peel from 1841 – 1846
- Lord John Russell from 1846 – 1852
- Earl of Derby in 1852
- Earl of Aberdeen from 1852 – 1855
- Viscount Palmerston from 1855 – 1858
- Earl of Derby from 1858 – 1859
- Viscount Palmerston from 1859 – 1865
- Earl Russell from 1865 – 1866; formerly Lord John Russell
- Earl of Derby from 1866 – 1868
- Benjamin Disraeli in 1868
- William Gladstone from 1868 – 1874
- Benjamin Disraeli from 1874 – 1880; Earl of Beaconsfield from 1876
- William Gladstone from 1880 – 1885
- Marquess of Salisbury from 1885 – 1886
- William Gladstone in 1886
- Marquess of Salisbury from 1886 – 1892
- William Gladstone from 1892 – 1894
- Earl of Rosebery from 1894 – 1895
- Marquess of Salisbury from 1895 – 1902
- Arthur James Balfour from 1902 – 1905
- Sir Henry Campbell–Bannerman from 1905 – 1908; first official Prime Minister
- Herbert Henry Asquith from 1908 – 1916
- David Lloyd George from 1916 – 1922
- Andrew Bonar Law from 1922 – 1923
- Stanley Baldwin from 1923 – 1924
- James Ramsay MacDonald in 1924
- Stanley Baldwin from 1924 – 1929
- James Ramsay MacDonald from 1929 – 1935
- Stanley Baldwin from 1935 – 1937
- Neville Chamberlain from 1937 – 1940
- Winston Churchill from 1940 – 1945
- Clement Attlee from 1945 – 1951
- Winston Churchill from 1951 – 1955; Sir Winston Churchill from 1953
- Sir Anthony Eden from 1955 – 1957
- Harold Macmillan from 1957 – 1963
- Sir Alec Douglas-Home[1] from 1963 – 1964
- Harold Wilson fron 1964 – 1970
- Edward Heath from 1970 – 1974
- Harold Wilson from 1974 – 1976
- James Callaghan from 1976 – 1979
- Margaret Thatcher from 1979 – 1990
- John Major from 1990 – 1997
- Tony Blair from 1997 – 2007
- Gordon Brown from 2007 - 2010
- David Cameron from 2010 - 2016
- Theresa May from 2016 - 2019
- Boris Johnson from 2019 - 2022
- Liz Truss 2022
- Rishi Sunak 2022
Note
- ↑ Strictly speaking, he was Earl of Home when first appointed, completing the legal formalities of disclaiming his peerage four days later.