British Prime Ministers

Question 1

1721 - 1742

Answer 1

Sir Robert Walpole - Whig

Question 2

1742 - 1743

Answer 2

Spencer Compton- 1st Earl of Wilmington - whig

Question 3

1743 - 1754

Answer 3

Henry Pelham - Whig

Question 4

1754 - 1756 and 1757 - 1762

Answer 4

Thomas Pelham-Holles - 1st Duke Of Newcastle - Whig

Question 5

1756 - 1757

Answer 5

William Cavendish - Duke Of Devonshire - Whig

Question 6

1762 - 1763

Answer 6

John Stuart - 3rd Earl Of Bute - Tory

Question 7

1763 - 1765

Answer 7

George Grenville - Whig

Question 8

1756 - 1766 and 1782 - 1782

Answer 8

Charles Watson-Wentworth - 2nd Marquess Of Rockingham - Whig

Question 9

1766 - 1768

Answer 9

William Pitt ‘The Elder’ - 1st Earl Of Chatham - Whig

Question 10

1770 - 1782

Answer 10

Lord Frederick North - Tory

Question 11

1782 - 1783

Answer 11

William Petty - 2nd Earl Of Shelburne - Whig

Question 12

1783 - 1783 and 1807 - 1809

Answer 12

William Cavendish-Bentinck - Duke Of Portland - Whig

Question 13

1783 - 1801 and 1804 - 1806

Answer 13

William Pitt ‘The Younger’ - Tory and Whig

Question 14

1801 - 1804

Answer 14

Henry Addington - 1st Viscount Sidmouth - Tory

Question 15

1806 - 1807

Answer 15

William Wyndham Grenville - 1st Baron Grenville - Whig

Question 16

1809 - 1812

Answer 16

Spencer Perceval - Tory

Question 17

1812 - 1827

Answer 17

Robert Banks Jenkinson - Earl Of Liverpool - Conservative

Question 18

1827 - 1827

Answer 18

George Canning - Tory

Question 19

1827 - 1828

Answer 19

Frederick Robinson - Viscount Goderich - Tory

Question 20

1828 - 1830 and 1834 - 1834

Answer 20

Arthur Wellesley - 1st Duke Of Wellington - Tory

Question 21

1830 - 1834

Answer 21

Charles Grey - 2nd Earl Grey - Whig

Question 22

1768 - 1770

Answer 22

Augustus Henry Fitzroy - 3rd Duke Of Grafton - Whig

Question 23

1834 - 1834 and 1835 - 1841

Answer 23

William Lamb - 2nd Viscount Melbourne - Whig

Question 24

1834 - 1835 and 1841 - 1846

Answer 24

Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet - Conservative

Question 25

1846 - 1852 and 1865 - 1866

Answer 25

Lord John Russell - 1st Earl Russell - Whig

Question 26

1852 - 1852 and 1858 - 1859 and 1866 - 1868

Answer 26

Edward Smith Stanley - 14th Earl Of Derby - Tory and Whig

Question 27

1852 - 1855

Answer 27

George Hamilton Gordon - Earl Of Aberdeen - Conservative

Question 28

1855 - 1858 and 1859 - 1865

Answer 28

Henry John Temple - 3rd Viscount Palmerston - Whig and Liberal

Question 29

1868 - 1868 and 1874 - 1880

Answer 29

Benjamin Disraeli - The Earl Of Beaconsfield - Conservative

Question 30

1868 - 1874 and 1880 - 1885 and 1886 - 1886 and 1892 - 1894

Answer 30

William Ewart Gladstone - Liberal

Question 31

1885 - 1886 and 1886 - 1892 and 1895 - 1902

Answer 31

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil - 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury - Conservative

Question 32

1894 - 1895

Answer 32

Archibald Primrose - 5th Earl Of Rosebery - Liberal

Question 33

1902 - 1905

Answer 33

Arthur James Balfour - Conservative

Question 34

1905 - 1908

Answer 34

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman - Liberal

Question 35

1908 - 1916

Answer 35

Herbert Henry Asquith - Liberal

Question 36

1916 - 1922

Answer 36

David Lloyd George

Question 37

1922 - 1923

Answer 37

Andrew Bonar Law - Conservative

Question 38

1923 - 1924 and 1924 - 1929 and 1935 - 1937

Answer 38

Stanley Baldwin - Conservative

Question 39

1924 - 1924 and 1929 - 1935

Answer 39

James Ramsey MacDonald - Labour

Question 40

1937 - 1940

Answer 40

Neville Chamberlain - Conservative

Question 41

1940 - 1945 and 1951 - 1955

Answer 41

Sir Winston Churchill- Conservative

Question 42

1945 - 1951

Answer 42

Clement Attlee - Labour

Question 43

1955 - 1957

Answer 43

Sir Anthony Eden - Conservative

Question 44

1957 - 1963

Answer 44

Harold Macmillan - Conservative

Question 45

1963 - 1964

Answer 45

Sir Alec Douglas-Home - Conservative

Question 46

1964 - 1970 and 1974 - 1976

Answer 46

Harold Wilson - Labour

Question 47

1970 - 1974

Answer 47

Sir Edward Heath - Conservative

Question 48

1976 - 1979

Answer 48

James Callaghan - Labour

Question 49

1979 - 1990

Answer 49

Baroness Margaret Thatcher - Conservative

Question 50

1990 - 1997

Answer 50

Sir John Major - Conservative

Question 51

1997 - 2007

Answer 51

Tony Blair - Labour

Question 52

2007 - 2010

Answer 52

Gordon Brown - Labour

Question 53

2010 - 2016

Answer 53

David Cameron - Conservative

Question 54

2016 - 2019

Answer 54

Theresa May - Conservative

Question 55

2019 -

Answer 55

Boris Johnson - Conservative