History of British Prime Ministers – First Lord of the Treasury

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Great Britain is famous for it's history, designers, inventors, fashion and music. It's amazing how many times British Prime Ministers helped in the defeat of dictators like Napoleon and Hitler. I have decided to write about who was Prime minister and when including the First Lord of The Treasury who which was the name and title of the early Prime Ministers.

My favourite PM's are Sir Winston Churchill who led the world to freedom from Hitler's tyranny and Margaret Thatcher who sorted out the militant unions and the Argentine dictator's.

First Lords of the Treasury

Earl of Halifax
From:


13th October 1714
To:


19th May 1715



Whig

Earl of Carlisle
23rd May 1715
10th October 1715
Whig

Robert Walpole
10th October 1715
12th April 1717
Whig

Earl Stanhope
12th April 1717
21st March 1718
Whig

Earl of Sunderland
21st March 1718
4th April 1721
Whig

Sir Robert Walpole
4th April 1721
11th February 1742
Whig

18th Century Prime Ministers, period of office and political party
Sir Robert Walpole 1721-42 Whig
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington 1742-3 Whig
Henry Pelham 1743-54 Whig
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1754-6 and 1757-62 Whig
William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire 1756-7 Whig
John Stuart, Earl of Bute 1762-3 Tory
George Grenville 1763-5 Whig
Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham 1765-6 1782 Whig
The Earl of Chatham, William Pitt ‘The Elder’ 1766-8 Whig
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton 1768-70 Whig

Lord North 1770-82 Tory
William Petty, Earl of Shelburne 1782-3 Whig
William Bentinck, Duke of Portland 1783 and 1807-9 Whig
19th Century Prime Ministers, period of office and political party
William Pitt ‘The Younger’ 1783-1801 and 1804-6 Tory
Henry Addington 1801-4 Tory
William Wyndam Grenville, Lord Grenville 1806-7 Whig
Spencer Perceval 1809-12 Tory
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool 1812-27 Tory
George Canning 1827 Tory
Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich 1827-8 Tory
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 1828-30 Tory

Earl Grey 1830-34 Whig
William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne 1834 and 1835-41 Whig
Sir Robert Peel 1834-5 and 1841-6 Tory
Earl Russell 1846-51 1865-6 Liberal
The Earl of Derby 1852, 1858-9 and 1866-8, Conservative
Earl of Aberdeen 1852-5 Tory
Viscount Palmerston 1855-8 and 1859-65 Liberal
Benjamin Disraeli 1868 and 1874-80 Conservative
William Ewart Gladstone 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886 and 1892-94 Liberal
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 1885-6, 1886-92 and 1895-1902 Conservative
The Earl of Rosebery 1894-5 Liberal

20th Century Prime Ministers, period of office and political party
Arthur James Balfour 1902-5 Conservative
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-8 Liberal
Herbert Henry Asquith 1908-16 Liberal
David Lloyd George 1916-22 Liberal
Andrew Bonar Law 1922-3 Conservative
Stanley Baldwin 1923, 1924-9, 1935-7 Conservative
James Ramsay MacDonald 1924 and 1929-35 Labour
Arthur Neville Chamberlain 1937-40 Conservative
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1940-5 and 1951-5 Conservative
Clement Richard Attlee 1945-51 Labour
Anthony Eden 1955-7 Conservative
Harold Macmillan 1957-63 Conservative

Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1963-4 Conservative
Harold Wilson 1964-70 and 1974-6 Labour
Edward Heath 1970-4 Conservative
James Callaghan 1976-9 Labour
Margaret Thatcher 1979-90 Conservative
John Major 1990-97 Conservative
Tony Blair 1997-2007 Labour
21st Century Prime Ministers, period of office and political party
Gordon Brown 2007-2010 Labour
David Cameron 2010-Present Conservative

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