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British PMs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| signed Treaty of Seville, fought War of Jenkins' Ear, dealt with South Sea Bubble, introduced "sinking fund", Whig | Sir Robert Walpole (1721-1742) |
| increased spirits tax, gov't led by John Carteret, Whig | Earl of Wilmington (1742-1743) |
| reorganized Royal Navy, dealt with Jacobite Rebellion, adopted Gregorian Calendar, Marriage Act of 1753, ended Austrian sucession, Whig | Henry Pelham (1743-1754) |
| began Seven Years' War, second term saw Broad Bottom Government, Whig | Duke of Newcastle (1754-6, 1757-62) |
| Caretaker Ministry led by Pitt the Elder, Whig | Duke of Devonshire (1756-7) |
| first Scotsman to be PM, signed Treaty of Paris but resigned after concessions he made to French, first Tory PM | Earl of Bute (1762-3) |
| lower taxes on Britain, higher on colonies, Stamp Act, Whig | George Grenville (1763-5) |
| repealed Stamp Act, Declaratory Act of 1766, acknowledged Treaty of Paris during second term, Whig | Marquess of Rockingham (1765-6, 1782) |
| defeated France in Canada, "real Imperialist", widely acknowledged as the Birth of the British Empire, Whig | Pitt the Elder (1766-8) |
| dealt with Corsican Crisis, Junius Attacks, Whig | Duke of Grafton (1768-70) |
| dealt with Gordon Riots, Irish reform, Falklands crisis, American Revolution, Tory | Lord North (1770-82) |
| made peace with US, France, and Spain; Whig | Earl of Sherburne (1782-3) |
| headed the Fox-North coalition, saw his reform of the British East India Company blocked by George III; Whig | Duke of Portland (1783 Apr-Dec, 1807-9) |
| youngest PM, India Act of 1784, reduced the debt, adopted income tax, made Triple Alliance, Constitutional Act of 1791, Act of Union 1800, second term formed Third Coalition, Battles of Trafalgar, Ulm, Austerliz; Tory | Pitt the Younger (1783-1801) |
| signed 1802 Treaty of Amiens; Tory | Henry Addington (1801-4) |
| abolished slave trade, Whig | The Lord Grenville (1806-7) |
| fought Peninsular War, assassinated by John Bellingham, Tory | Spencer Perceval (1809-12) |
| won Napoleonic Wars, Congress of Vienna, 1817 recession, adopted gold standard in 1819, Luddite Movement, Peterloo Massacre, dealt with Cato St. Conspiracy in 1820; Tory | Lord Liverpool (1812-27) |
| worthless, he stroked and died in 1827; Tory | George Canning (1827 Apr-Aug) |
| absolutely sucked | Viscount Goderich (1827-8) |
| fought a duel over the Catholic Emancipation Bill; Tory | Duke of Wellington (1828-30, 1834 Nov-Dec) |
| Reform Act of 1832, reformed Poor Laws, Swing Riots, abolished empire slavery; Whig | Earl Grey (1830-4) |
| resigned with no coalition, second term saw Mines Act of 1842, Factory Act of 1844, Railway Regulation Act of 1844, repeal of Corn Laws, Maynooth Grant; Conservative | Sir Robert Peel (1834-5, 1841-6) |
| Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, Bedchamber Crisis, Treaty of Waitangi; Whig | Viscount Melbourne (1835-1841) |
| Education Act of 1847, Chartists, Don Pacifico affair, Poor Laws reformed, Australian Colonies Gov't Act, Great Exhibition; Whig | Lord John Russell (1846-52) |
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