List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom (graphical)

This is a graphical list of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom from when the first Prime Minister (in the modern sense), Robert Walpole, took office in 1721, until the present day.

18th century

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from: 1721 till: 1742 color:whig text:"Sir Robert Walpole" from: 1742 till: 1743 color:whig text:"The Earl of Wilmington" from: 1743 till: 1754 color:whig text:"Henry Pelham" from: 1754 till: 1756 color:whig text:"The Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" from: 1756 till: 1757 color:whig text:"The Duke of Devonshire" from: 1757 till: 1762 color:whig text:"The Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" from: 1762 till: 1763 color:tory text:"The Earl of Bute" from: 1763 till: 1765 color:whig text:"George Grenville" from: 1765 till: 1766 color:whig text:"The Marquess of Rockingham" from: 1766 till: 1768 color:whig text:"The Earl of Chatham, "William Pitt the Elder"" from: 1768 till: 1770 color:whig text:"The Duke of Grafton" from: 1770 till: 1782 color:tory text:"Lord North" from: 1782 till: 1782 color:whig text:"The Marquess of Rockingham" from: 1782 till: 1783 color:whig text:"The Earl of Shelburne" from: 1783 till: 1783 color:whig text:"The Duke of Portland" from: 1783 till: 1801 color:tory text:"William Pitt the Younger"

19th century

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from: 17/03/1801 till: 10/05/1804 color:tory text:"Henry Addington" from: 10/05/1804 till: 23/01/1806 color:tory text:"William Pitt the Younger" from: 11/02/1806 till: 31/03/1807 color:whig text:"The Lord Grenville" from: 31/03/1807 till: 04/10/1809 color:whig text:"The Duke of Portland" from: 05/10/1809 till: 11/05/1812 color:tory text:"Spencer Perceval" from: 01/06/1812 till: 01/04/1827 color:tory text:"The Earl of Liverpool" from: 10/04/1827 till: 08/08/1827 color:tory text:"George Canning" from: 01/09/1827 till: 01/01/1828 color:tory text:"The Viscount Goderich" from: 01/01/1828 till: 01/11/1830 color:tory text:"The Duke of Wellington" from: 01/11/1830 till: 01/07/1834 color:whig text:"The Earl Grey" from: 01/07/1834 till: 01/11/1834 color:whig text:"The Viscount Melbourne" from: 01/12/1834 till: 01/04/1835 color:tory text:"Sir Robert Peel" from: 01/04/1835 till: 01/09/1841 color:whig text:"The Viscount Melbourne" from: 01/09/1841 till: 01/07/1846 color:conservative text:"Sir Robert Peel" from: 01/07/1846 till: 01/02/1852 color:whig text:"The Lord John Russell" from: 01/02/1852 till: 01/12/1852 color:conservative text:"The Earl of Derby" from: 01/12/1852 till: 01/02/1855 color:peelite text:"The Earl of Aberdeen" from: 01/02/1855 till: 01/02/1858 color:liberal text:"The Viscount Palmerston" from: 01/02/1858 till: 01/06/1859 color:conservative text:"The Earl of Derby" from: 01/06/1859 till: 01/10/1865 color:liberal text:"The Viscount Palmerston" from: 01/10/1865 till: 01/06/1866 color:liberal text:"The Earl Russell" from: 01/06/1866 till: 01/02/1868 color:conservative text:"The Earl of Derby" from: 01/02/1868 till: 01/12/1868 color:conservative text:"Benjamin Disraeli" from: 01/12/1868 till: 01/02/1874 color:liberal text:"William Ewart Gladstone" from: 01/02/1874 till: 01/04/1880 color:conservative text:"Benjamin Disraeli" from: 01/04/1880 till: 01/06/1885 color:liberal text:"William Ewart Gladstone" from: 01/07/1885 till: 01/02/1886 color:conservative text:"The Marquess of Salisbury" from: 01/02/1886 till: 01/08/1886 color:liberal text:"William Ewart Gladstone" from: 01/08/1886 till: 01/08/1892 color:conservative text:"The Marquess of Salisbury" from: 01/08/1892 till: 01/02/1894 color:liberal text:"William Ewart Gladstone" from: 01/03/1894 till: 01/06/1895 color:liberal text:"The Earl of Rosebery" from: 01/06/1895 till: 01/07/1902 color:conservative text:"The Marquess of Salisbury"

20th & 21st century

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from: 11/07/1902 till: 05/12/1905 color:conservative text:"Arthur Balfour" from: 05/02/1906 till: 03/04/1908 color:liberal text:"Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman" from: 01/04/1908 till: 01/12/1916 color:liberal text:"Herbert Henry Asquith" from: 01/12/1916 till: 01/10/1922 color:liberal text:"David Lloyd George" from: 01/10/1922 till: 01/05/1923 color:conservative text:"Andrew Bonar Law" from: 10/05/1923 till: 01/01/1924 color:conservative text:"Stanley Baldwin" from: 22/01/1924 till: 01/11/1924 color:labour text:"Ramsay MacDonald" from: 01/11/1924 till: 01/06/1929 color:conservative text:"Stanley Baldwin" from: 05/06/1929 till: 07/05/1935 color:labour text:"Ramsay MacDonald" from: 01/06/1935 till: 01/05/1937 color:conservative text:"Stanley Baldwin" from: 28/05/1937 till: 10/05/1940 color:conservative text:"Neville Chamberlain" from: 10/05/1940 till: 27/07/1945 color:conservative text:"Winston Churchill" from: 27/07/1945 till: 26/10/1951 color:labour text:"Clement Attlee" from: 26/10/1951 till: 07/04/1955 color:conservative text:"Sir Winston Churchill" from: 07/04/1955 till: 09/01/1957 color:conservative text:"Sir Anthony Eden" from: 11/01/1957 till: 19/10/1963 color:conservative text:"Harold Macmillan" from: 19/10/1963 till: 16/10/1964 color:conservative text:"The Earl of Home" from: 16/10/1964 till: 19/06/1970 color:labour text:"Harold Wilson" from: 19/06/1970 till: 04/03/1974 color:conservative text:"Edward Heath" from: 04/03/1974 till: 05/04/1976 color:labour text:"Harold Wilson" from: 05/04/1976 till: 04/05/1979 color:labour text:"James Callaghan" from: 04/05/1979 till: 28/11/1990 color:conservative text:"Margaret Thatcher" from: 28/11/1990 till: 02/05/1997 color:conservative text:"John Major" from: 02/05/1997 till: 26/06/2007 color:labour text:"Tony Blair" from: 26/06/2007 till: end color:labour text:"Gordon Brown"