UK Prime Ministers

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UK Prime Ministers

Years	Prime Minister	Party
¹ William Pitt the Elder
² William Pitt the Younger
³ Lord John Russell later became 1st Earl Russell
⁴ Coalition governments; Lloyd-George was Liberal
⁵ National Coalition governments; Chamberlain was a Conservative
1721–42	Sir Robert Walpole	Whig
1742–43	Earl of Wilmington	Whig
1743–54	Henry Pelham	Whig
1754–56	Duke of Newcastle	Whig
1756–57	Duke of Devonshire	Whig
1757–62	Duke of Newcastle	Whig
1762–63	Earl of Bute	Tory
1763–65	George Grenville	Whig
1765–66	Marquis of Rockingham	Whig
1766–67	Earl of Chatham¹	Whig
1767–70	Duke of Grafton	Whig
1770–82	Lord North	Tory
1782	Marquis of Rockingham	Whig
1782–83	Earl of Shelbourne	Whig
1783	Duke of Portland	Coalition
1783–1801	William Pitt²	Tory
1801–04	Henry Addington	Tory
1804–06	William Pitt²	Tory
1806–07	Lord Grenville	Whig
1807–09	Duke of Portland	Coalition
1809–12	Spencer Perceval	Tory
1812–27	Earl of Liverpool	Tory
1827	George Canning	Tory
1827–28	Viscount Goderich	Tory
1828–30	Duke of Wellington	Tory
1830–34	Earl Grey	Whig
1834	Viscount Melbourne	Whig
1834–35	Sir Robert Peel	Tory
1835–41	Viscount Melbourne	Whig
1841–46	Sir Robert Peel	Conservative
1846–52	Lord John Russell³	Whig
1852	Earl of Derby	Conservative
1852–55	Earl of Aberdeen	Peelite
1855–58	Viscount Palmerston	Liberal
1858–59	Earl of Derby	Conservative
1859–65	Viscount Palmerston	Liberal
1865–66	Earl Russell³	Liberal
1866–68	Earl of Derby	Conservative
1868	Benjamin Disraeli	Conservative
1868–74	William Gladstone	Liberal
1874–80	Benjamin Disraeli	Conservative
1880–85	William Gladstone	Liberal
1885–86	Marquis of Salisbury	Conservative
1886	William Gladstone	Liberal
1886–92	Marquis of Salisbury	Conservative
1892–94	William Gladstone	Liberal
1894–95	Earl of Rosebery	Liberal
1895–1902	Marquis of Salisbury	Conservative
1902–05	Arthur Balfour	Conservative
1905–08	Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Liberal
1908–15	Herbert Asquith	Liberal
1915–16	Herbert Asquith	Coalition⁴
1916–22	David Lloyd George	Coalition⁴
1922–23	Andrew Bonar Law	Conservative
1923–24	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative
1924	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour
1924–29	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative
1929–31	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour
1931–35	Ramsay MacDonald	National⁵
1935–37	Stanley Baldwin	National⁵
1937–40	Neville Chamberlain	National⁵
1940–45	Winston Churchill	Coalition
1945–51	Clement Attlee	Labour
1951–55	Winston Churchill	Conservative
1955–57	Anthony Eden	Conservative
1957–63	Harold Macmillan	Conservative
1963–64	Alec Douglas-Home	Conservative
1964–70	Harold Wilson	Labour
1970–74	Edward Heath	Conservative
1974–76	Harold Wilson	Labour
1976–79	James Callaghan	Labour
1979–90	Margaret Thatcher	Conservative
1990–97	John Major	Conservative
1997–	Tony Blair	Labour