British prime ministers and their time in office
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| Sir Robert Walpole | 4 April 1721 - 11 February 1742
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| Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington | 16 February 1742 - 2 July 1743 (died in office)
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| Henry Pelham | 27 August 1743 - 6 March 1754 (died in office)
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| Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle | 16 March 1754 - 16 November 1756
2 July 1757 - 26 May 1762
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| William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | 16 November 1756 - 25 June 1757
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| John Stuart 3rd Earl of Bute | 26 May 1762 - 8 April 1763
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| George Grenville | 16 April 1763 - 13 July 1765
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| Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham | 13 July 1765 - 30 July 1766
27 March 1782 - 1 July 1782 (died in office)
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| William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham | 30 July 1766 - 14 October 1768
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| Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | 14 October 1768 - 28 January 1770
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| Lord Frederick North | 28 January 1770 - 22 March 1782
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| William Petty-FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | 4 July 1782 - 2 April 1783
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| William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland | 2 April 1783 - 19 December 1783
31 March 1807 - 4 October 1809
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| William Pitt the Younger | 19 December 1783 - 14 March 1801
10 May 1804 - 23 January 1806 (died in office)
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| Henry Addington | 17 March 1801 - 10 May 1804
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| William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville | 11 February 1806 - 31 March 1807
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| Spencer Perceval | 4 October 1809 - 11 May 1812 (died in office)
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| Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | 8 June 1812 - 9 April 1827
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| George Canning | 10 April 1827 - 8 August 1827 (died in office0
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| Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich | 31 August 1827 - 21 January 1828
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| Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 22 January 1828 - 16 November 1830
14 November 1834 - 10 December 1834
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| Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | 22 November 1830 - 9 July 1834
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| William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | 16 July 1834 - 14 November 1834
18 April 1835 - 30 August 1841
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| Sir Robert Peel | 10 December 1834 - 8 April 1835
30 August 1841 - 29 June 1846
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| Lord John Russell | 30 June 1846 - 21 February 1852
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| Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | 23 February 1852 - 17 December 1852
20 February 1858 - 11 June 1859
28 June 1866 - 25 February 1868
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| George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | 19 December 1852 - 30 January 1855
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| Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | 6 February 1855 - 19 February 1858
12 June 1856 - 18 October 1865 (died in office)
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| John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | 29 October 1865 - 26 June 1866
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| Benjamin Disraeli | 27 February 1868 - 1 December 1868
20 February 1874 - 21 April 1880
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| William Ewart Gladstone | 3 February 1868 - 17 February 1874
23 April 1880 - 9 June 1885
1 February 1886 - 20 July 1886
15 August 1892 - 2 March 1894
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| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Sailsbury | 23 June 1885 - 28 January 1886
25 July 1886 - 11 August 1892
25 June 1895 - 11 July 1902
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| Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebury | 5 March 1894 - 22 June 1895
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| Arthur Balfour | 11 July 1902 - 5 December 1905
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| Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 5 December 1905 - 7 April 1908
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| Herbert Henry Asquith | 7 April 1908 - 7 December 1916
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| David Lloyd George | 7 December 1916 - 19 October 1922
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| Andrew Bonar Law | 23 October 1922 - 20 May 1923
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| Stanley Baldwin | 23 May 1923 - 16 January 1924
4 November 1924 - 5 June 1929
7 June 1935 - 28 May 1937
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| Ramsay MacDonald | 22 January 1924 - 4 November 1924
5 June 1929 - 7 June 1935
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| Neville Chamberlain | 28 May 1937 - 10 May 1940
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| Sir Winston Churchill | 10 May 1940 - 26 July 1945
26 October 1951 - 6 April 1955
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| Clement Attlee | 26 July 1945 - 26 October 1951
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| Sir Anthony Eden | 6 April 1955 - 10 January 1957
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| Harold Macmillan | 10 January 1957 - 19 October 1963
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| Sir Alec Douglas-Home | 19 October 1963 - 16 October 1964
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| Harold Wilson | 16 October 1964 - 19 June 1970
4 March 1974 - 5 April 1976
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| Edward Heath | 19 June 1970 - 4 March 1974
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| James Callaghan | 5 April 1976 - 4 May 1979
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| Margaret Thatcher | 4 May 1979 - 28 November 1990
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| John Major | 28 November 1990 - 2 May 1997
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| Tony Blair | 2 May 1997 - 27 June 2007
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| Gordon Brown | 27 June 2007 - 11 May 2010
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| David Cameron | 11 May 2010 - Current
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