British Prime Ministers
This list is comprised of British Prime Ministers. The Prime Minister is appointed by the British monarch, the nominal head of state, and governs in the monarch's name. In modern times the Prime Minister is regarded as the real leader of the country.
The position evolved slowly and was never created by any law. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) is generally viewed as the first Prime Minister after he became the First Lord of the Treasury in 1721.
| Name | Years | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Walpole | 1721-1742 |  | |
| Spencer Compton | 1742-1743 | | |
| Henry Pelham | 1743-1754 | | |
| Thomas Pelham-Holles | 1754-1756; 1757-1762 | | |
| William Cavendish | 1756-1757 | | |
| John Stuart | 1762-1763 | | |
| George Grenville | 1763-1765 | | |
| Charles Watson-Wentworth | 1765-1766; 1782 | | |
| William Pitt the Elder | 1766-1768 | | |
| Augustus FitzRoy | 1768-1770 | (Henry) | |
| Frederick North | 1770-1782 | | |
| William Petty | 1782-1783 | | |
| William Cavendish-Bentinck | 1783; 1807-1809 | (Henry) | |
| William Pitt the Younger | 1783-1801; 1804-1806 | | |
| Henry Addington | 1801-1804 | | |
| William Grenville | 1806-1807 | (Wyndham) | |
| Spencer Perceval | 1809-1812 | | |
| Robert Jenkinson | 1812-1827 | (Banks) | |
| George Canning | 1827 | | |
| F. J. Robinson | 1827-1828 | (Frederick, John) | |
| Arthur Wellesley | 1828-1830; 1834 | | |
| Charles Grey | 1830-1834 | | |
| William Lamb | 1834; 1835-1841 | | |
| Robert Peel | 1834-1835; 1841-1846 | | |
| John Russell | 1846-1852; 1865-1866 | | |
| Edward Smith-Stanley | 1852; 1858-1859; 1866-1868 | (George, Geoffrey) | |
| George Hamilton-Gordon | 1852-1855 | | |
| Henry John Temple | 1855-1858; 1859-1865 | | |
| Benjamin Disraeli | 1868; 1874-1880 | | |
| William Ewart Gladstone | 1868-1874; 1880-1885; 1886; 1892-1894 | | |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil | 1885-1886; 1886-1892; 1895-1902 | (Arthur, Talbot) | |
| Archibald Primrose | 1894-1895 | (Philip) | |
| Arthur Balfour | 1902-1905 | (James) | |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 1905-1908 | | |
| Herbert Henry Asquith | 1908-1916 | | |
| David Lloyd George | 1916-1922 | | |
| Bonar Law | 1922-1923 | (Andrew) | |
| Stanley Baldwin | 1923-1924; 1924-1929; 1935-1937 | | |
| Ramsay MacDonald | 1924; 1929-1935 | (James) | |
| Neville Chamberlain | 1937-1940 | (Arthur) | |
| Winston Churchill | 1940-1945; 1951-1955 | | |
| Clement Attlee | 1945-1951 | (Richard) | |
| Anthony Eden | 1955-1957 | (Robert) | |
| Harold Macmillan | 1957-1963 | (Maurice) | |
| Alec Douglas-Home | 1963-1964 | (Alexander, Frederick) | |
| Harold Wilson | 1964-1970; 1974-1976 | (James) | |
| Edward Heath | 1970-1974 | (Ted, Richard, George) | |
| James Callaghan | 1976-1979 | (Leonard) | |
| Margaret Thatcher | 1979-1990 | (Hilda) | |
| John Major | 1990-1997 | | |
| Tony Blair | 1997-2007 | (Anthony, Charles, Lynton) | |
| Gordon Brown | 2007-2010 | (James) | |
| David Cameron | 2010-2016 | (William, Donald) | |
| Theresa May | 2016-2019 | (Mary) | |
| Boris Johnson | 2019-2022 | (Alexander, de Pfeffel) | |
| Liz Truss | 2022 | (Mary, Elizabeth) | |
| Rishi Sunak | 2022-2024 | | |
| Keir Starmer | 2024- | (Rodney) | |