British prime ministers

Sir Robert Walpole (Whig)
1721-42
'Sir Blustering'

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Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington (Whig)
1742-43

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Henry Pelham (Whig)
1743-54
'King Henry the Ninth'

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Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (Whig)
1754-56, 1757-62
'Hubble-bubble'

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William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire (Whig)
1756-57

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John Stuart, Earl of Bute (Tory)
1762-63
'Jack Boot'

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George Grenville (Whig)
1763-65
'Gentle Shepherd'

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Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham (Whig)
1765-55, 1782

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William Pitt 'the Elder', Earl of Chatham (Whig)
1766-68
'The Great Commoner'

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Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton (Whig)
1768-70
'Royal Oak', 'The Turf Macaroni'

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Frederick North, known by his courtesy title Lord North (Tory)
1770-82
'Boreas' [the North Wind]

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William Petty, Earl of Shelburne (Whig)
1782-83
'The Jesuit in Berkeley Square', 'Malagrida'

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William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland (Whig)
1783, 1807-09

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William Pitt 'the Younger' (Tory)
1783-1801, 1804-06

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Henry Addington (Tory)
1801-04
'The Doctor'

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William Wyndam Grenville, Lord Grenville (Whig)
1806-07
'Bogey'

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Spencer Perceval (Tory)
1809-12
'Little P'

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Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
1812-27

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George Canning (Tory)
1827
'The Cicero of the British Senate', 'The Zany of Debate'

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Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich (Tory)
1827-28
'Prosperity Robinson', 'Goody Goderich', 'The Blubberer'

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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (Tory)
1828-30
'The Iron Duke', 'Europe's Liberator'

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Charles Grey, Earl Grey (Whig)
1830-34

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William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne (Whig)
1834, 1835-41

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Sir Robert Peel (Tory)
1834-35, 1841-46
'Orange Peel'

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John Russell, Earl Russell (Liberal)
1846-51, 1865-66
'Finality Jack', 'The Widow's Mite'

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Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby (Conservative)
1852, 1858-59, 1866-68
'Scorpion Stanley', 'The Rupert of Debate'

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George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen (Tory)
1852-55

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Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston (Liberal)
1855-58, 1859-65
'Lord Cupid', 'Lord Pumicestone' Photograph: Guardian

Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative)
1868, 1874-80
'Dizzy'

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William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)
1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94
'Grand Old Man', 'The People's William'

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Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)
1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902

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Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Liberal)
1894-95

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Arthur James Balfour (Conservative)
1902-05
'Bloody Balfour'

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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal)
1905-08
'CB'

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Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1908-16
'The Sledgehammer'

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David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1916-22
'The Welsh Wizard', 'The Man Who Won the War'

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Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative)
1922-23
'The Unknown Prime Minister'

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Stanley Baldwin (Conservative)
1923, 1924-29, 1935-37

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James Ramsay MacDonald (Labour)
1923-24, 1929-31, 1931-35

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Arthur Neville Chamberlain (Conservative)
1937-40
'The Coroner'

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Conservative)
1940-45, 1951-55
'Winnie'

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Clement Richard Attlee (Labour)
1945-51
'Clem'

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Sir Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1955-57

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Harold Macmillan (Conservative)
1957-63
'Supermac', 'Mac the Knife'

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Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1963-64

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Harold Wilson (Labour)
1964-70, 1974-76

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Edward Heath (Conservative)
1970-74

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James Callaghan (Labour)
1976-79
'Big Jim', 'Sunny Jim'

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Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1979-90
'The Iron Lady', 'Maggie'

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John Major (Conservative)
1990-97

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Tony Blair (Labour)
1997-2007

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Gordon Brown (Labour)
2007-

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