British Prime Ministers: List in Order of Office Term
List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in the Order they were Prime Minister
Sir Robert Walpole, Whig
Term of Office: 1721-1742
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, Whig
Term of Office: 1743-1754
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Whig
Terms of Office: 1754-56 and 1757-1762
William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, Whig
Term of Office: 1756-1757
John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Tory
Term of Office: 1762-1763
George Grenville, Whig
Term of Office: 1763-1765
Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, Whig
Terms of Office: 1765-66 and 1782
William Pitt ‘the Elder’, Earl of Chatham, Whig
Term of Office: 1766-1768
Trivia: A brilliant orator whose later life was dominated by bouts of insanity
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Whig
Term of Office: 1768-1770
Frederick North, Lord North, Tory
Term of Office: 1770-1782
William Petty, Earl of Shelburne, Whig
Term of Office: 1782-1783
William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, Whig
Term of Office: 1783 and 1807-1809
William Pitt ‘the Younger’, Tory
Terms of Office: 1783-1801 and 1804-1806
Trivia Fact: He became prime minister at the age of 24, the youngest ever to take office, fought duel with a political enemy and was part of a famous father and son prime ministerial dynasty.
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, Tory
Term of Office: 1801-1804
William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville, Whig
Term of Office: 1806-1807
Spencer Perceval, Tory
Term of Office: 1809-1812
Trivia Fact: The only British prime minister to be assassinated.
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, Tory
Term of Office: 1812-1827
George Canning, Tory
Term of Office: 1827
Trivia Fact: Famous libertarian who supported Greece in its War for Independence from Turkey and backed the Latin American struggle against Spanish rule.
Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich, Tory
Term of Office: 1827-1828
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Tory
Term of Office: 1828-1830
Trivia Fact: Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and later fought a duel over Catholic Emancipation.
Charles Grey, Earl Grey, Whig
Term of Office: 1830-1834
Trivia: The famous blend of tea created for him.
William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, Whig
Terms of Office: 1834 and 1835-1841
Trivia Fact: A favourite of Queen Victoria despite the scandal of his first wife Lady Caroline having an affair with Lord Byron
Sir Robert Peel, Tory
Term of Office: 1834-1835 and 1841-1846
Trivia Fact: Established London’s Metropolitan Police Force and gave policemen nicknames of ‘peelers’ and ‘bobbies’.
John Russell, Earl Russell, Liberal
Terms of Office: 1846-1852 and 1865-1866
Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, Conservative
Terms of Office: 1852, 1858-1859 and 1866-1868
George Hamilton-Gordon Earl of Aberdeen, Conservative
Term of Office: 1852-1855
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Liberal
Term of Office: 1855-1858 and 1859-1865
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Conservative
Terms of Office: 1868 and 1874-1880
Trivia Fact: The only Jewish prime minister
William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal
Terms of Office: 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886 and 1892-1894
Trivia Fact: Nicknamed the Grand Old Man
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative
Terms of Office: 1885-1886, 1886-1892 and 1895-1902
Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, Liberal
Term of Office: 1894-1895
Trivia Fact: Enjoyed horse racing and owned three Derby winners
Arthur James Balfour, Earl Balfour, Conservative
Term of Office: 1902-1905
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal
Term of Office: 1905-1908
Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Liberal
Term of Office: 1908-1916
David Lloyd George, Liberal
Term of Office: 1916-1922
Trivia Fact: The last Liberal prime minister
Andrew Bonar Law, Conservative
Term of Office: 1922-1923
Trivia Fact: The only British prime minister to be board abroad, in Canada
Stanley Baldwin, Conservative
Terms of Office: 1923, 1924-1929 and 1935-1937
Trivia Fact: He held Great Britain together during the crisis over Edward VIII’s abdication
James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour
Terms of Office: 1924 and 1929-1935
Trivia Fact: The first Labour prime minister
Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Conservative
Term of Office: 1937-1940
Trivia Fact: Known for his policy of appeasement in the 1930s which failed to halt the rise of Hitler
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Conservative
Terms of Office: 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
Trivia Fact: Great Britain’s most famous wartime leader who led the country to victory in 1945 and the only British prime minister to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Clement Richard Attlee, Labour
Term of Office: 1945-1951
Anthony Eden, Conservative
Term of Office: 1955-1957
Trivia Fact: He resigned after the Suez Crisis.
Harold Macmillan, Conservative
Term of Office: 1957-1963
Trivia Fact: Presided over a time of prosperity and the thawing of the Cold War
Air Alec Douglas-Home, Conservative
Term of Office: 1963-1964
Trivia Fact: The first person to resign a peerage (Earl of Home) to become prime minister
Harold Wilson, Labour
Terms of Office: 1964-1970 and 1974-1976
Trivia Fact: He founded the Open University and famously refused to support the Americans in the Vietnam War.
Edward Heath, Conservative
Term of Office: 1970-1974
Trivia Fact: One of the rare bachelor prime ministers
James Callaghan, Labour
Term of Office: 1976-1979
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Conservative
Term of Office: 1979-1990
Trivia Fact: Nicknamed the “Iron Lady”. The first and only female British Prime Minister
John Major, Conservative
Term of Office: 1990-1997
Tony Blair, Labour
Term of Office: 1997-2007
Trivia Fact: Creator of Britain’s New Labour and “invader” of Iraq, with former U.S. President George W. Bush
Gordon Brown, Labour
Term of Office: 2007-2010
David Cameron, Conservative
Term of Office: 2010-
Resources about British Prime Ministers
Britannia.com Britain’s Prime Ministers
Number 10 Downing Great Britain’s Prime Ministers in History
Famous Oxonian PMs Prime Ministers Educated at Oxford
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