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1721 Whig![]() Sir Robert Walpole | 1742 Whig![]() Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington | 1743 Whig![]() Henry Pelham | 1754 Whig![]() Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle | 1756 Whig![]() William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire | 1757 Whig![]() Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle | 1762 Tory![]() John Stuart, Earl of Bute | 1763 Whig![]() George Grenville | 1765 Whig![]() Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham | 1766 Whig![]() William Pitt "The Elder", Earl of Chatham 1767 Whig | ![]() Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton 1770 Tory | ![]() Lord Frederick North 1782 Whig | ![]() Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham 1782 Whig | ![]() William Petty, Earl of Shelburne 1783 Tory | ![]() William Bentinck, Duke of Portland 1783 Tory | ![]() William Pitt "The Younger" 1801 Tory | ![]() Henry Addington 1804 Tory | ![]() William Pitt "The Younger" 1806 Whig | ![]() William Wyndam Grenville, Lord Grenville 1807 Tory | ![]() William Bentinck, Duke of Portland 1809 Tory | ![]() Spencer Perceval 1812 Tory | ![]() Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool 1827 Tory | ![]() George Canning 1827 Tory | ![]() Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich 1828 Tory | ![]() Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 1830 Whig | ![]() Charles Grey Earl Grey 1834 Whig | ![]() William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne 1834 Tory | ![]() Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 1834 Tory | ![]() Sir Robert Peel 1835 Whig | ![]() William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne 1841 Tory | ![]() Sir Robert Peel 1846 Whig | ![]() Lord John Russell 1852 Con | ![]() Edward Smith Stanley Earl of Derby 1852 Con | ![]() George Hamilton Gordon Earl of Aberdeen 1855 Lib | ![]() Henry John Temple Viscount Palmerston 1858 Con | ![]() Edward Smith Stanley Earl of Derby 1858 Lib | ![]() Henry John Temple Viscount Palmerston 1865 Lib | ![]() Earl (formerly Lord John) Russell 1866 Con | ![]() Edward Smith Stanley Earl of Derby 1868 Con | ![]() Benjamin Disraeli 1868 Lib | ![]() William Ewart Gladstone 1874 Con | ![]() Benjamin Disraeli 1880 Lib | ![]() William Ewart Gladstone 1885 Con | ![]() Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 1886 Lib | ![]() William Ewart Gladstone 1886 Con | ![]() Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 1892 Lib | ![]() William Ewart Gladstone 1894 Lib | ![]() Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery 1895 Con | ![]() Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 1902 Con | ![]() Arthur James Balfour 1905 Lib | ![]() Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1908 Lib | ![]() Herbert Henry Asquith 1916 Lib | ![]() David Lloyd George 1922 Con | ![]() Andrew Bonar Law 1923 Con | ![]() Stanley Baldwin 1924 Lab | ![]() James Ramsay MacDonald 1924 Con | ![]() Stanley Baldwin 1929 Lab | ![]() James Ramsay MacDonald 1931 Nat | ![]() James Ramsay MacDonald 1935 Con | ![]() Stanley Baldwin 1937 Con | ![]() Neville Chamberlain 1940 Con | ![]() Sir Winston Churchill 1945 Lab | ![]() Clement Attlee 1951 Con | ![]() Sir Winston Churchill 1955 Con | ![]() Sir Anthony Eden 1957 Con | ![]() Harold Macmillan 1963 Con | ![]() Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1964 Lab | ![]() Harold Wilson 1970 Con | ![]() Sir Edward Heath 1974 Lab | ![]() Harold Wilson 1976 Lab | ![]() James Callaghan 1979 Con | ![]() Baroness Margaret Thatcher 1990 Con | ![]() John Major 1997 Lab | ![]() Tony Blair 2007 Lab | ![]() Gordon Brown 2010 Con | ![]() David Cameron 2019 Con | ![]() Theresa May 2019 Con | ![]() Boris Johnson 2022 Con | ![]() Elizabeth Truss 2022 Con | ![]() Rishi Sunak 2024 Lab | ![]() Sir Keir Starmer |