Daryl Lees © 2009
This page was last updated: 28/04/2009
Here is a list of all the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, since the creation of the post in 1721. From the first prime minister Sir Robert Walpole to the present PM Gordon Brown.
| 1721
- 1742 Sir Robert Walpole |
| 1742
- 1743 The Earl of Wilmington |
| 1743
- 1754 Henry Pelham |
| 1754
- 1756 The Duke of Newcastle |
| 1756
- 1757 The Duke of Devonshire |
| 1757
- 1762 The Duke of Newcastle |
| 1762
- 1763 The Earl of Bute |
| 1763
- 1765 George Grenville |
| 1765
- 1766 The Marquess of Rockingham |
| 1766
- 1768 The Earl of Chatham (William Pitt ‘The Elder’) |
| 1768
- 1770 The Duke of Grafton |
| 1770
- 1782 Lord North |
| 1782
- 1782 The Marquess of Rockingham (Died in office) |
| 1782
- 1783 The Earl of Shelburne |
| 1783
- 1783 The Duke of Portland |
| 1783
- 1801 William Pitt ‘The Younger’ |
| 1801
- 1804 Henry Addington |
| 1804
- 1806 William Pitt ‘The Younger’ |
| 1806
- 1807 Lord Grenville |
| 1807
- 1809 The Duke of Portland |
| 1809
- 1812 Spencer Perceval (Only Prime Minister to be assassinated) |
| 1812
- 1827 The Earl of Liverpool |
| 1827
- 1827 George Canning (Died within days of taking Office) |
| 1827
- 1828 Viscount Goderich |
| 1828
- 1830 The Duke of Wellington |
| 1830
- 1834 Earl Grey |
| 1834
- 1834 Viscount Melbourne |
| 1834
- 1834 The Duke of Wellington |
| 1834
- 1835 Sir Robert Peel (Introduced police force) |
| 1835
- 1841 Viscount Melbourne |
| 1841
- 1846 Sir Robert Peel |
| 1846
- 1852 Lord John Russell |
| 1852
- 1852 Earl of Derby |
| 1852
- 1855 The Earl of Aberdeen |
| 1855
- 1858 Viscount Palmerston |
| 1858
- 1859 The Earl of Derby |
| 1859
- 1865 Viscount Palmerston |
| 1865
- 1866 Earl Russell |
| 1866
- 1868 Earl of Derby |
| 1868
- 1868 Benjamin Disraeli |
| 1868
- 1874 William Ewart Gladstone |
| 1874
- 1880 Benjamin Disraeli |
| 1880
- 1885 William Ewart Gladstone |
| 1885
- 1886 The Marquess of Salisbury |
| 1886
- 1886 William Ewart Gladstone |
| 1886
- 1892 The Marquess of Salisbury |
| 1892
- 1894 William Ewart Gladstone |
| 1894
- 1895 The Earl of Rosebery |
| 1895
- 1902 The Marquess of Salisbury |
| 1902
- 1905 Arthur Balfour |
| 1905
- 1908 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
| 1908
- 1916 Henry H Asquith (Was PM at start of World War One) |
| 1916
- 1922 David Lloyd George (Led National Government during War) |
| 1922
- 1923 Andrew Bonar-Law |
| 1923
- 1924 Stanley Baldwin |
| 1924
- 1924 Ramsay MacDonald (First Labour Prime Minister) |
| 1924
- 1929 Stanley Baldwin |
| 1929
- 1931 Ramsay MacDonald |
| 1931
- 1935 Ramsay MacDonald (Led a Labour-led National Government) |
| 1935
- 1937 Stanley Baldwin (PM during Abdication of King Edward VIII) |
| 1937
- 1940 Neville Chamberlain (PM at outbreak of World War Two) |
| 1940
- 1945 Winston Churchill (Led a National government during the War) |
| 1945
- 1951 Clement Atlee |
| 1951
- 1955 Sir Winston Churchill (Was knighted after the end of the War) |
| 1955
- 1957 Sir Anthony Eden |
| 1957
- 1963 Harold Macmillan |
| 1963
- 1964 Sir Alec Douglas-Home |
| 1964
- 1970 Harold Wilson |
| 1970
- 1974 Edward Heath |
| 1974
- 1976 Harold Wilson |
| 1976
- 1979 James Callaghan |
| 1979
- 1991 Margaret Thatcher (First woman Prime Minister) |
| 1991
- 1997 John Major |
| 1997
- 2007 Tony Blair |
| 2007
- Gordon Brown |
