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PBHS British PM
British Prime Ministers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Recognized as 1st British Prime Minister | Walpole (Robert) |
| Tamworth Manifesto and repealed Corn Laws | Peel (Robert) |
| Only PM of Jewish descent; successful novelist; leader of House of Commons --Second Reform Act | Disraeli (Benjamin) |
| Liberal; passed Third Reform Act; loathed by Queen Victoria; | Gladstone (William) |
| Rep of UK at Paris Peace Conference leading to Treaty of Versailles | David Lloyd George |
| Chancellor of the Exechequer | Lloyd George |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | Winston Churchill |
| put UK on gold standard; won Nobel Prize for Literature | Churchill |
| wrote "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" | Churchill |
| Founded the modern welfare state | Attlee (Clement) |
| the "Iron Lady" | Margaret Thatcher |
| Winning of Falkland Wars | Thatcher |
| only female PM; died in 2013 | Thatcher |
| "New Labour" movement--his victory in 1997 ended 18 years of Conservative rule | Tony Blair |
| close association w George W led to UK joining 2003 invasion of Iraq | Tony Blair |