The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was the head of "His/Her Majesties Government" in the United Kingdom, and is responsible, along with all cabinet ministers appointed by the Prime Minister, to the Monarch, Parliament, their political party, and ultimately the electorate and the United Kingdom as a whole.
The position evolved over centuries, and mirrored the declining governing powers of the monarch to the supremacy of Parliament in the governing of Britain. By the time of King George I in 1714, and the monarchs reluctance to involve himself in political manners in England (due to his German upbringing and his lack of English), the Prime Ministers office had taken on most of its power and duties. The office was abolished with the break up of the United Kingdom in 1946 and the British defeat in the Third Global War, while both Scotland and England all possess similar offices that can be considered the successor to the UK's Premiership. Nations such as Australasia and Assiniboia and formerly Canada that were influenced by the British Westminster system of Government also hold offices with similar powers.
List of Prime Ministers (From POD)[]
Color Key For Political Parties
| Portrait | Name
(Constituency/Title) |
Term | Electoral Mandates | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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William Pitt the Younger (1749-1806)
(MP Cambridge University) |
10 May 1804 - 23 Jan 1806 | N/A | Tory | Died in Office |
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William Wyndham Grenville (1759 - 1834)
(1st Lord Greenville) |
23 Feb 1806 - 31 Mar 1807 | 1806 | Whig | |
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Spencer Perceval (1762-1812)
(MP Northampton) |
31 Mar 1807 - 11 May 1812 | 1807 | Tory | |
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Robert Bank Jekinson (1770-1828)
(2nd Earl of Liverpool) |
8 Jun 1812 - 3 Oct 1827 | 1812, 1817, 1823 | Tory | |
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Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)
(1st Duke of Wellington) |
3 Oct 1827 - 29 Nov 1830 | 1827 | Tory | |
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Charles Grey (1796-1845)
(2nd Earl Grey) |
22 Nov 1830 - 10 July 1834 | 1830 | Whig | |
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William Lamb (1779-1848)
(2nd Viscount Melbourne) |
11 July 1834 - 8 Dec 1834 | N/A | Whig | |
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Arthur Wellesley
(1st Duke of Wellington) |
9 Dec 1834 - 2 Nov 1841 | 1834, 1839 | Tory | |
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Robert Peel (1788-1850)
(MP Tamworth) |
3 Nov 1841 - 23 Apr 1847 | 1841, 1845 | Conservative | |
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Lord John Russell (1792 - 1878)
(MP City of London) |
23 Apr 1847- 6 Jul 1847 | N/A | Whig | |
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Robert Peel
(MP Tamworth) |
6 Jul 1847 - 2 Jul 1850 | 1847 | Conservative | |
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Edward Smith-Stanley (1799 - 1869)
(14th Earl of Derby) |
2 Jul 1850 - 4 Nov 1854 | 1851 | Conservative | |
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Henry John Temple (1784 - 1865)
(3rd Viscount Palmerston (MP Tiverton)) |
5 Nov 1854 - 7 Jun 1859 | 1854, 1857 | Whig | |
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Edward Smith-Stanley
(14th Earl of Derby) |
8 Jun 1859 - 12 Aug 1862 | 1859, 1861 | Conservative | |
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Henry John Temple
(3rd Viscount Palmerston (MP Tiverton)) |
13 Aug 1862 - 7 Mar 1865 | 1864 | Liberal | |
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
(MP Buckinghamshire) |
8 Mar 1865 - 12 Dec 1868 | 1865 | Conservative | |
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
(MP Greenwich) |
13 Dec 1868 - 5 Jun 1872 | 1868, 1871 | Liberal | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
(MP Buckinghamshire) |
6 Jun 1872 - 14 Mar 1878 | 1872, 1875 | Conservative | |
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William Ewart Gladstone
(MP Midlothian) |
15 Mar 1878 - 9 Jul 1889 | 1878, 1882, 1885, 1888 | Liberal | |
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
(3rd Marquess of Salisbury) |
10 Jul 1889 - 23 Sep 1895 | 1889, 1892 | Conservative | |
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William Ewart Gladstone
(MP Midlothian) |
24 Sep 1895 - 19 May 1898 | 1895, 1898 | Liberal | |
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener
(MP Dublin East) |
19 May 1898 - 23 Sep 1907 | 1902 | Liberal | |
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H.G. Wells
(MP Rochester) |
23 Sep 1907 - 9 June 1912 | 1907, 1911 | Conservative | |
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener
(MP Hamersmith) |
9 June 1912 - 9 Jan 1917 | War Coalition | Established to fight the Second Global War, General Kitchener selected as PM | |
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Oswald Mosely
(None) |
9 Jan 1917 - 5 Nov 1924 | N/A | National Coalition | Rose to power following a crisis, puppet for the coalition. |
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John Beckett(None) | 5 Nov 1924 - 5 Dec 1946 | None | British Imperial Party | Couped the National Coalition in 1924 |