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Prime Ministers of the

Name Party Starting Date Ending Date Sir Walpole Whig April 1721 February 1742 Spencer Compton, 1st of Wilmington Whig February 1742 July 1743 Whig August 1743 March 1754 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Whig March 1754 November 1756 William Cavendish, 4th Whig November June 1757 1756 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle Whig July 1757 May 1762 John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute May 1762 April 1763 Whig April 1763 July 1765 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Whig July 1765 July 1766 Rockingham William Pitt the Elder Whig July 1766 October 1768 Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton Whig October 1768 January 1770 Lord Frederick North Tory January 1770 March 1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Whig March 1782 July 1782 Rockingham William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Whig July 1782 April 1783 William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland Whig April 1783 December 1783 Tory December March 1801 1783 Tory March 1801 May 1804 William Pitt the Younger Tory May 1804 January 1806 William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Whig February 1806 March 1807 Grenville William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland Whig March 1807 October 1809 Tory October 1809 May 1812 Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Tory June 1812 April 1827 Tory April 1827 August 1827 Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Tory August 1827 January 1828 Goderich Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Tory January 1828 November 1830 Charles Grey, 2nd Whig November July 1834 1830 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Whig July 1834 November 1834 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Tory November December 1834 1834 Sir Conservative December April 1835 1834 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Whig April 1835 August 1841 Sir Robert Peel Conservative August 1841 June 1846 Lord Whig June 1846 February 1852 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Tory February 1852 December 1852 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Conservative December January 1855 Aberdeen 1852 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Whig February 1855 February 1858 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Conservative February 1858 June 1859 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Liberal June 1859 October 1865 John Russell, 1st Liberal October 1865 June 1866 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Conservative June 1866 February 1868 Conservative February 1868 December 1868 William Ewart Liberal December February 1874 1868 Benjamin Disraeli Conservative February 1874 April 1880 Liberal April 1880 June 1885 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Conservative June 1885 January 1886 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal February 1886 July 1886 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Conservative July 1886 August 1892 Salisbury William Ewart Gladstone Liberal August 1892 March 1894 Archibald Primose, 5th Liberal March 1894 June 1895 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Conservative June 1895 Salisbury Conservative July 1902 December 1905 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Liberal December April 1908 1905 Herbert Henry Asquith Liberal April 1908 Liberal December 1916 Andrew Conservative October 1922 Conservative May 1923 July 1924 Ramsay MacDonald Labour Stanley Baldwin Conservative November June 1929 1924 Ramsay MacDonald Labour June 1929 Stanley Baldwin Conservative June 1935 Conservative May 1937 Conservative May 1940 July 1945 Clement Atlee Labour July 1945 October 1951 Sir Winston Churchill Conservative October 1951 Sir Conservative April 1955 January 1957 Conservative January 1957 Sir Alec Douglas-Home Conservative October 1963 October 1964 Labour October 1964 Conservative June 1970 March 1974 Harold Wilson Labour March 1974 April 1976 Labour April 1976 Conservative May 1979 November 1990 John Conservative November May 1997 1990 Labour May 1997 June 2007 Labour June 2007 May 2010 Conservative May 2010

List of British Monarchs, 1688 to the Present

Name Dynasty Start of Reign End of Reign James II Stuart 1685 1688 William III and Mary II Stuart 1688 1702 Anne Stuart 1702 1714 George I Hanover 1714 1727 George II Hanover 1727 1760 George III Hanover 1760 1820 George IV Hanover 1820 1830 William IV Hanover 1830 1837 Victoria Hanover 1837 1901 Edward VII Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1901 1910 Windsor 1910 1936 Edward VIII Windsor 1936 1936 George VI Windsor 1936 1952 Elizabeth II Windsor 1952