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Leading Statesmen of England
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Although the 'official' list of British Prime Ministers begins with Sir Robert Walpole in 1721, the title 'Prime Minister' was only permanently created in 1905, developing out of the position which Walpole originally held: 'First Minister.'

First Minister
Sir Robert Walpole (1721)
Earl of Wilmington (1741)
Henry Pelham (1743)
Duke of Newcastle (1754)
Duke of Devonshire (1756)
Duke of Newcastle (1757)
Duke of Newcastle (1760, accession of new monarch)
Earl of Bute (1762)
George Grenville (1763)
Marquess of Rockingham (1765)
William Pitt (the Elder) (1766)
Duke of Grafton (1768)
Lord North (1770)
Marquess of Rockingham (1782)
Earl of Shelburne (1782)
Duke of Portland (1783)
William Pitt (the Younger) (1783)
Henry Addington (1801)
William Pitt (the Younger) (1804)
Lord William Wyndham Grenville (1806)
Duke of Portland (1807)
Spencer Perceval (1809)
Earl of Liverpool (1812)
Earl of Liverpool (1820 accession of new monarch)
George Canning (1827)
Viscount Goderich (1827)
Duke of Wellington (1828)
Earl Grey (1830)
Viscount Melbourne (1834)
Duke of Wellington (1834)
Sir Robert Peel (1834)
Viscount Melbourne (1835)
Viscount Melbourne (1837, accession of new monarch)
Sir Robert Peel (1841)
Lord John Russell (1846)
Earl of Derby (1852)
Earl of Aberdeen (1852)
Viscount Palmerston (1855)
Earl of Derby (1858)
Viscount Palmerston (1859)
Earl Russell (1865)
Earl of Derby (1866)
Benjamin Disraeli (1868)
William Gladstone (1868)
Benjamin Disraeli (1874)
William Gladstone (1880)
Marquess of Salisbury (1885)
William Gladstone (1886)
Marquess of Salisbury (1886)
Willliam Gladstone (1892)
Earl of Rosebery (1894)
Marquess of Salisbury (1895)
Marquess of Salisbury (1901, accession of new monarch)
Arthur Balfour (1902)
Prime Minister
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905)
Herbert Asquith (1908)
Herbert Asquith (1910, accession of new monarch)
David Lloyd George (1916)
Andrew Bonar Law (1922)
Stanley Baldwin (1923)
James Ramsay MacDonald 1924)
Stanley Baldwin (1924)
James Ramsay MacDonald (1929)
Stanley Baldwin (1935)
Stanley Baldwin (1936, accession of new monarch)
Stanley Baldwin (1936, accession of 2nd new monarch)
Neville Chamberlain (1937)
Winston Churchill (1940)
Clement Attlee (1945)
Winston Churchill (1951)
Winston Churchill (1952, accession of new monarch))
Sir Anthony Eden (1955)
Harold Macmillan (1957)
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1963)
Harold Wilson (1964)
Edward Heath (1970)
Harold Wilson (1974)
James Callaghan (1976)
Margaret Thatcher (1979)
Margaret Thatcher (1983)
Margaret Thatcher (1987)
John Major (1990)
John Major (1992)
Tony Blair (1997)
Tony Blair (2001)

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