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British
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| Prime Minister | Political Party | Office Term(s) | | Sir Robert Walpole | Whig | 1721 - 1742 | | Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington | Whig | 1742 - 1743 | | Henry Pelham | Whig | 1743 - 1754 | | Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle | Whig | 1754 - 6 and 1757 - 62 | | William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire | Whig | 1756 - 1757 | | John Stuart, Earl of Bute | Tory | 1762 - 1763 | | George Grenville | Whig | 1763 - 1765 | | Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham | Whig | 1765 - 1766 and 1782 | | The Earl of Chatham, William Pitt ’The Elder’ | Whig | 1766 - 1768 | | Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton | Whig | 1768 - 1770 | | Lord North | Tory | 1770 - 1782 | | William Petty, Earl of Shelburne | Whig | 1782 - 1783 | | William Pitt ’The Younger’ | Tory | 1783 - 1801 and 1804 - 1806 | | William Bentinck, Duke of Portland | Whig | 1783 and 1807 - 1809 | | Henry Addington | Tory | 1801 - 1804 | | William Wyndam Grenville, Lord Grenville | Whig | 1806 - 1807 | | Spencer Perceval | Tory | 1809 - 1812 | | Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool | Tory | 1812 - 1827 | | George Canning | Tory | 1827 | | Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich | Tory | 1827 - 1828 | | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington | Tory | 1828 - 1830 | | Earl Grey | Whig | 1830 - 1834 | | Sir Robert Peel | Tory | 1834 - 1835 and 1841 - 1846 | | William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne | Whig | 1834 and 1835 - 1841 | | Earl Russell | Liberal | 1846 - 1851 and 1865 - 1866 | | Earl of Aberdeen | Tory | 1852 - 1855 | | The Earl of Derby | Conservative | 1852, 1858 - 1859 and 1866 - 1868 | | Viscount Palmerston | Liberal | 1855 - 1858 and 1859 - 1865 | | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | 1868 - 1874, 1880 - 1885, 1886 and 1892 - 1894 | | Benjamin Disraeli | Conserative | 1868 and 1874 - 1880 | | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative | 1885 - 1856, 1886 - 92 and 1895 - 1902 | | The Earl of Rosebery | Liberal | 1894 - 1895 | | Arthur James Balfour | Conservative | 1902 - 1905 | | Henry Campbell-Bannerman | Liberal | 1905 - 1908 | | Herbert Henry Asquith | Liberal | 1908 - 1916 | | David Lloyd George | Liberal | 1916 - 1922 | | Andrew Bonar Law | Conservative | 1922 - 1923 | | Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | 1923, 1924 - 1929 and 1935 - 1937 | | James Ramsay MacDonald | Labour | 1924 and 1929 - 1935 | | Arthur Neville Chamberlain | Conservative | 1937 - 1940 | | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Conservative | 1940 - 1945 and 1951 - 1955 | | Clement Richard Attlee | Labour | 1945 - 1951 | | Anthony Eden | Conservative | 1955 - 1957 | | Harold Macmillan | Conservative | 1957 - 1963 | | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | Conservative | 1963 - 1964 | | Harold Wilson | Labour | 1964 - 1970 and 1974 - 1976 | | Edward Heath | Conservative | 1970 - 1974 | | James Callaghan | Labour | 1976 - 1979 | | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative | 1979 - 1990 | | John Major | Conservative | 1990 - 1997 | | Tony Blair | Labour | 2 May 1997 - 27 June 2007 | | Gordon Brown | Labour | 27 June 2007 |
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