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== Prime Ministers == The role of the Prime Minister has evolved over time. Below is a list of the Prime Ministers since the first recognised person to be designated at First Minister in 1721. Sir Robert Walpole 1721-42 Whig Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington 1742-3 Whig Henry Pelham 1743-54 Whig Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1754-6 and 1757-62 Whig William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire 1756-7 Whig John Stuart, Earl of Bute 1762-3 Tory George Grenville 1763-5 Whig Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham 1765-6 1782 Whig The Earl of Chatham, William Pitt 'The Elder' 1766-8 Whig Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton 1768-70 Whig Lord North 1770-82 Tory William Petty, Earl of Shelburne 1782-3 Whig William Bentinck, Duke of Portland 1783 and 1807-9 Whig William Pitt 'The Younger' 1783-1801 and 1804-6 Tory [[Henry Addington]] 1801-4 Tory William Wyndam Grenville, Lord Grenville 1806-7 Whig Spencer Perceval 1809-12 Tory Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool 1812-27 Tory George Canning 1827 Tory Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich 1827-8 Tory Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 1828-30 Tory Earl Grey 1830-34 Whig William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne 1834 and 1835-41 Whig Sir Robert Peel 1834-5 and 1841-6 Tory Earl Russell 1846-51 1865-6 Liberal The Earl of Derby 1852, 1858-9 and 1866-8, Conservative Earl of Aberdeen 1852-5 Tory Viscount Palmerston 1855-8 and 1859-65 Liberal Benjamin Disraeli 1868 and 1874-80 Conservative William Ewart Gladstone 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886 and 1892-94 Liberal Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 1885-6, 1886-92 and 1895-1902 Conservative The Earl of Rosebery 1894-5 Liberal Arthur James Balfour 1902-5 Conservative Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-8 Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith 1908-16 Liberal David Lloyd George 1916-22 Liberal Andrew Bonar Law 1922-3 Conservative Stanley Baldwin 1923, 1924-9, 1935-7 Conservative James Ramsay MacDonald 1924 and 1929-35 Labour Arthur Neville Chamberlain 1937-40 Conservative Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1940-5 and 1951-5 Conservative Clement Richard Attlee 1945-51 Labour [[Anthony Eden]] 1955-7 Conservative Harold Macmillan 1957-63 Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1963-4 Conservative Harold Wilson 1964-70 and 1974-6 Labour Edward Heath 1970-4 Conservative James Callaghan 1976-9 Labour Margaret Thatcher 1979-90 Conservative [http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/ John Major] 1990-97 Conservative Tony Blair 1997-2007 Labour [[Gordon Brown]] 2007-2010 Labour David Cameron 2010- Conservative

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