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Prime MinisterHometownPartyFirst Year In OfficeLast Year In OfficeTotal Length In Office (Days)2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term DetailsReigning MonarchPortrait
Prime MinisterHometownPartyFirst Year In OfficeLast Year In OfficeTotal Length In Office (Days)2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term DetailsReigning MonarchPortrait
The Right Honourable Sir Robert WalpoleHoughton, Norfolk, EnglandWhig172117427615n/aGeorge I, George II
The Right Honourable Spencer ComptonCompton Wynyates, Warwickshire, EnglandWhig17421743502n/aGeorge II
The Right Honourable Henry PelhamLaughton, Sussex, EnglandWhig174317543842n/aGeorge II
His Grace Thomas Pelham-HollesLondon, EnglandWhig1754176227632nd: 29 June 1757 - 26 May 1762 (4 years and 332 days)George II, George III
His Grace William CavendishDerbyshire, EnglandWhig17561757226n/aGeorge II
The Right Honourable John StuartEdinburgh, Midlothian, Great BritainTory17621763318n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable George GrenvilleWotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, EnglandWhig17631765816n/aGeorge III
The Most Honourable Charles Watson-WentworthWentworth, Yorkshire, EnglandWhig176517824802nd: 27 March 1782 - 1 July 1782 (97 days)George III
The Right Honourable William PittWestminster, Middlesex, EnglandWhig17661768807n/aGeorge III
His Grace Augustus FitzRoySuffolk, EnglandWhig17681770472n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable Frederick NorthPiccadilly, Middlesex, EnglandTory177017824439n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable William PettyDublin, IrelandWhig17821783266n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable William Pitt the YoungerHayes, Kent, EnglandTory1783180669152nd: 10 May 1804 - 23 January 1806 (1 year and 259 days)George III
His Grace William Cavendish-BentinckNottinghamshire, EnglandWhig, Tory1783180911792nd: 31 March 1807 - 4 October 1809 (2 years and 188 days)George III
The Right Honourable Henry AddingtonBedford Row, Holborn, Middlesex, EnglandTory180118041150n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable William GrenvilleWotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, EnglandWhig18061807408n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable Spencer PercevalMayfair, Middlesex, Great BritainTory18091812951n/aGeorge III
The Right Honourable Robert JenkinsonLondon, EnglandTory181218275416n/aGeorge III, George IV
The Right Honourable George CanningMarylebone, Middlesex, EnglandTory18271827119n/aGeorge IV
The Right Honourable Frederick John RobinsonSkelton-on-Ure, Yorkshire, EnglandTory18271828131n/aGeorge IV
Field Marshal His Grace Arthur Wellesley6 Merrion Street, Dublin, IrelandTory1828183410522nd: 17 November 1834 - 9 December 1834 (23 days)George IV, William IV
The Right Honourable Charles GreyFallodon, Northumberland, EnglandWhig183018341325n/aWilliam IV
The Right Honourable William LambLondon, EnglandWhig1834184124472nd: 18 April 1835 - 30 August 1841 (6 years and 135 days)William IV, Victoria
The Right Honourable Sir Robert PeelBury, Lancashire, EnglandConservative1834184618842nd: 30 August 1841 - 29 June 1846 (4 years and 304 days)William IV, Victoria
The Right Honourable John RussellMayfair, Middlesex, EnglandWhig, Liberal1846186641242nd: 29 October 1865 - 26 June 1866 (241 days)Victoria
The Right Honourable Edward Smith-StanleyKnowsley Hall, Knowsley, Lancashire, EnglandConservative1852186813842nd: 20 February 1858 - 11 June 1859 (1 year and 112 days); 3rd: 28 June 1866 - 25 February 1868 (1 year and 243 days)Victoria
The Right Honourable George Hamilton-GordonEdinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandPeelite18521855773n/aVictoria
The Right Honourable Henry John TempleWestminster, Middlesex, EnglandWhig, Liberal1855186511092nd: 12 June 1859 - 18 October 1865Victoria
The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone62 Rodney Street, Liverpool, EnglandLiberal1868189426372nd: 23 April 1880 - 9 June 1885; 3rd: 1 February 1886 - 20 July 1886 (170 days); 4th: 15 August 1892 - 2 March 1894 (1 year and 200 days)Victoria
The Right Honourable Benjamin DisraeliBloomsbury, Middlesex, EnglandConservative1868188025312nd: 20 February 1874 - 21 April 1880 (6 years and 62 days)Victoria
The Most Honourable Robert Gascoyne-CecilHatfield, Hertfordshire, EnglandConservative1885190250002nd: 25 July 1886 - 11 August 1892 (6 years and 18 days); 3rd: 25 June 1895 - 11 July 1902 (7 years and 17 days)Victoria, Edward VII
The Right Honourable Archibald PrimroseMayfair, Middlesex, EnglandLiberal18941895475n/aVictoria
The Right Honourable Arthur BalfourWhittingehame House, East Lothian, ScotlandConservative190219051241n/aEdward VII
The Right Honourable Sir Henry Campbell-BannermanKelvinside House, Glasgow, ScotlandLiberal19051908853n/aEdward VII
The Right Honourable Herbert Henry AsquithMorley, West Riding of Yorkshire, EnglandLiberal190819163165n/aEdward VII, George V
The Right Honourable David Lloyd GeorgeChorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire, EnglandLiberal191619222143n/aGeorge V
The Right Honourable Bonar LawNew Brunswick, CanadaConservative19221923210n/aGeorge V
The Right Honourable Stanley BaldwinBewdley, Worcestershire, EnglandConservative1923193726402nd: 4 November 1924 - 4 June 1929 (4 years and 213 days); 3rd: 7 June 1935 - 28 May 1937 (1 year and 356 days)George V, Edward VIII, George VI
The Right Honourable Ramsay MacDonaldMorayshire, Scotland, UKLabour, National Labour1924193524812nd: 5 June 1929 - 7 June 1935 (6 years and 3 days)George V
The Right Honourable Neville ChamberlainEdgbaston, Birmingham, EnglandConservative193719401079n/aGeorge VI
The Right Honourable Sir Winston ChurchillBlenheim, Oxfordshire, EnglandConservative1940195538062nd: 26 October 1951 - 5 April 1955 (3 years and 162 days)George VI, Elizabeth II
The Right Honourable Clement AttleePutney, Surrey, EnglandLabour194519512283n/aGeorge VI
The Right Honourable Sir Anthony EdenWindlestone Hall, County Durham, EnglandConservative19551957644n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Harold MacmillanBelgravia, London, EnglandConservative195719632472n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Sir Alec Douglas-HomeMayfair, London, EnglandConservative19631964364n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Harold WilsonHuddersfield, Yorkshire, EnglandLabour1964197628352nd: 4 March 1974 - 5 April 1976 (2 years and 33 days)Elizabeth II
The Right Honourable Edward HeathBroadstairs, Kent, EnglandConservative197019741354n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable James CallaghanPortsmouth, Hampshire, EnglandLabour197619791125n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Margaret ThatcherGrantham, Lincolnshire, EnglandConservative197919904224n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable John MajorSt Helier, Surrey, EnglandConservative199019972346n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Tony BlairEdinburgh, ScotlandLabour199720073707n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Gordon BrownGiffnock, Renfrewshire, ScotlandLabour200720101049n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable David CameronMarylebone, London, EnglandConservative201020162254n/aElizabeth II
The Right Honourable Theresa MayEastbourne, Sussex, EnglandConservative2016Incumbent1015n/aElizabeth II

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1721
Last Year In Office: 1742
Total Length In Office (Days): 7615
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George I, George II

The Right Honourable Spencer Compton

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1742
Last Year In Office: 1743
Total Length In Office (Days): 502
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George II

The Right Honourable Henry Pelham

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1743
Last Year In Office: 1754
Total Length In Office (Days): 3842
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George II

His Grace Thomas Pelham-Holles

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1754
Last Year In Office: 1762
Total Length In Office (Days): 2763
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 29 June 1757 - 26 May 1762 (4 years and 332 days)
Reigning Monarch: George II, George III

His Grace William Cavendish

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1756
Last Year In Office: 1757
Total Length In Office (Days): 226
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George II

The Right Honourable John Stuart

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1762
Last Year In Office: 1763
Total Length In Office (Days): 318
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable George Grenville

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1763
Last Year In Office: 1765
Total Length In Office (Days): 816
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Most Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1765
Last Year In Office: 1782
Total Length In Office (Days): 480
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 27 March 1782 - 1 July 1782 (97 days)
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable William Pitt

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1766
Last Year In Office: 1768
Total Length In Office (Days): 807
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

His Grace Augustus FitzRoy

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1768
Last Year In Office: 1770
Total Length In Office (Days): 472
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable Frederick North

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1770
Last Year In Office: 1782
Total Length In Office (Days): 4439
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable William Petty

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1782
Last Year In Office: 1783
Total Length In Office (Days): 266
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable William Pitt the Younger

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1783
Last Year In Office: 1806
Total Length In Office (Days): 6915
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 10 May 1804 - 23 January 1806 (1 year and 259 days)
Reigning Monarch: George III

His Grace William Cavendish-Bentinck

Party: Whig, Tory
First Year In Office: 1783
Last Year In Office: 1809
Total Length In Office (Days): 1179
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 31 March 1807 - 4 October 1809 (2 years and 188 days)
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable Henry Addington

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1801
Last Year In Office: 1804
Total Length In Office (Days): 1150
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable William Grenville

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1806
Last Year In Office: 1807
Total Length In Office (Days): 408
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable Spencer Perceval

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1809
Last Year In Office: 1812
Total Length In Office (Days): 951
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III

The Right Honourable Robert Jenkinson

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1812
Last Year In Office: 1827
Total Length In Office (Days): 5416
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George III, George IV

The Right Honourable George Canning

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1827
Last Year In Office: 1827
Total Length In Office (Days): 119
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George IV

The Right Honourable Frederick John Robinson

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1827
Last Year In Office: 1828
Total Length In Office (Days): 131
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George IV

Field Marshal His Grace Arthur Wellesley

Party: Tory
First Year In Office: 1828
Last Year In Office: 1834
Total Length In Office (Days): 1052
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 17 November 1834 - 9 December 1834 (23 days)
Reigning Monarch: George IV, William IV

The Right Honourable Charles Grey

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1830
Last Year In Office: 1834
Total Length In Office (Days): 1325
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: William IV

The Right Honourable William Lamb

Party: Whig
First Year In Office: 1834
Last Year In Office: 1841
Total Length In Office (Days): 2447
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 18 April 1835 - 30 August 1841 (6 years and 135 days)
Reigning Monarch: William IV, Victoria

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1834
Last Year In Office: 1846
Total Length In Office (Days): 1884
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 30 August 1841 - 29 June 1846 (4 years and 304 days)
Reigning Monarch: William IV, Victoria

The Right Honourable John Russell

Party: Whig, Liberal
First Year In Office: 1846
Last Year In Office: 1866
Total Length In Office (Days): 4124
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 29 October 1865 - 26 June 1866 (241 days)
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Right Honourable Edward Smith-Stanley

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1852
Last Year In Office: 1868
Total Length In Office (Days): 1384
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 20 February 1858 - 11 June 1859 (1 year and 112 days); 3rd: 28 June 1866 - 25 February 1868 (1 year and 243 days)
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Right Honourable George Hamilton-Gordon

Party: Peelite
First Year In Office: 1852
Last Year In Office: 1855
Total Length In Office (Days): 773
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Right Honourable Henry John Temple

Party: Whig, Liberal
First Year In Office: 1855
Last Year In Office: 1865
Total Length In Office (Days): 1109
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 12 June 1859 - 18 October 1865
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone

Party: Liberal
First Year In Office: 1868
Last Year In Office: 1894
Total Length In Office (Days): 2637
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 23 April 1880 - 9 June 1885; 3rd: 1 February 1886 - 20 July 1886 (170 days); 4th: 15 August 1892 - 2 March 1894 (1 year and 200 days)
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1868
Last Year In Office: 1880
Total Length In Office (Days): 2531
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 20 February 1874 - 21 April 1880 (6 years and 62 days)
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Most Honourable Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1885
Last Year In Office: 1902
Total Length In Office (Days): 5000
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 25 July 1886 - 11 August 1892 (6 years and 18 days); 3rd: 25 June 1895 - 11 July 1902 (7 years and 17 days)
Reigning Monarch: Victoria, Edward VII

The Right Honourable Archibald Primrose

Party: Liberal
First Year In Office: 1894
Last Year In Office: 1895
Total Length In Office (Days): 475
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Victoria

The Right Honourable Arthur Balfour

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1902
Last Year In Office: 1905
Total Length In Office (Days): 1241
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Edward VII

The Right Honourable Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Party: Liberal
First Year In Office: 1905
Last Year In Office: 1908
Total Length In Office (Days): 853
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Edward VII

The Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith

Party: Liberal
First Year In Office: 1908
Last Year In Office: 1916
Total Length In Office (Days): 3165
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Edward VII, George V

The Right Honourable David Lloyd George

Party: Liberal
First Year In Office: 1916
Last Year In Office: 1922
Total Length In Office (Days): 2143
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George V

The Right Honourable Bonar Law

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1922
Last Year In Office: 1923
Total Length In Office (Days): 210
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George V

The Right Honourable Stanley Baldwin

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1923
Last Year In Office: 1937
Total Length In Office (Days): 2640
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 4 November 1924 - 4 June 1929 (4 years and 213 days); 3rd: 7 June 1935 - 28 May 1937 (1 year and 356 days)
Reigning Monarch: George V, Edward VIII, George VI

The Right Honourable Ramsay MacDonald

Party: Labour, National Labour
First Year In Office: 1924
Last Year In Office: 1935
Total Length In Office (Days): 2481
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 5 June 1929 - 7 June 1935 (6 years and 3 days)
Reigning Monarch: George V

The Right Honourable Neville Chamberlain

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1937
Last Year In Office: 1940
Total Length In Office (Days): 1079
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George VI

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1940
Last Year In Office: 1955
Total Length In Office (Days): 3806
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 26 October 1951 - 5 April 1955 (3 years and 162 days)
Reigning Monarch: George VI, Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Clement Attlee

Party: Labour
First Year In Office: 1945
Last Year In Office: 1951
Total Length In Office (Days): 2283
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: George VI

The Right Honourable Sir Anthony Eden

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1955
Last Year In Office: 1957
Total Length In Office (Days): 644
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1957
Last Year In Office: 1963
Total Length In Office (Days): 2472
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1963
Last Year In Office: 1964
Total Length In Office (Days): 364
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Harold Wilson

Party: Labour
First Year In Office: 1964
Last Year In Office: 1976
Total Length In Office (Days): 2835
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: 2nd: 4 March 1974 - 5 April 1976 (2 years and 33 days)
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Edward Heath

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1970
Last Year In Office: 1974
Total Length In Office (Days): 1354
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable James Callaghan

Party: Labour
First Year In Office: 1976
Last Year In Office: 1979
Total Length In Office (Days): 1125
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1979
Last Year In Office: 1990
Total Length In Office (Days): 4224
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable John Major

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 1990
Last Year In Office: 1997
Total Length In Office (Days): 2346
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Tony Blair

Party: Labour
First Year In Office: 1997
Last Year In Office: 2007
Total Length In Office (Days): 3707
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown

Party: Labour
First Year In Office: 2007
Last Year In Office: 2010
Total Length In Office (Days): 1049
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable David Cameron

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 2010
Last Year In Office: 2016
Total Length In Office (Days): 2254
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II

The Right Honourable Theresa May

Party: Conservative
First Year In Office: 2016
Last Year In Office: Incumbent
Total Length In Office (Days): 1015
2nd, 3rd, or 4th Term Details: n/a
Reigning Monarch: Elizabeth II
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