Who is known as the first British Prime Minister?

Who established personal control over a Whig-dominated Parliament on behalf of the German-speaking George I?

His attempts to avoid British military commitments worldwide led to his downfall during the War of the Austrian Succession.

PM (1721–1742)

PM (1834–1835, 1841–1846)

Set out the founding principles of the Conservative Party in the Tamworth Manifesto and led the new party to its first general election victory.

The Irish Famine accelerated his decision to repeal the Corn Laws, promoting free trade by removing grain tariffs.

PM (1868, 1874–1880):

Britain’s only Prime Minister of Jewish descent,

Before becoming Prime Minister, Disraeli was instrumental in the passage of the Second Reform Act as leader of the House of Commons.

He promoted a strong, imperial foreign policy including investment in the Suez Canal and the peace achieved at the Congress of Berlin.

PM (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894)

Liberal Prime Minister who passed a Third Reform Act and modernized the military, but failed to achieve Irish Home Rule.

PM during reign of Queen Victoria and she HATED him!

This PM sensationalized the “Bulgarian horrors,” suggesting that Britain needed to resolve the “Eastern Question” about the fate of the Ottoman Empire.

PM (1908–1916)

Liberal Prime Minister who made sweeping reforms, including limiting the power of the unelected House of Lords with the Parliament Act in order to introduce the “People’s Budget” of 1911, which established state pensions

He lost control of a coalition government during World War I and was forced to resign

Lost to David Lloyd George

PM (1916–1922)

A native Welsh speaker

He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Asquith

Taking control during World War I, he represented the U.K. at the Paris Peace Conference, leading to the Treaty of Versailles.

he split the Liberal Party by aiming to continue the coalition government together with the Conservative Bonar Law; the coalition collapsed after embarrassment over the independence of Ireland and a scandal over the sale of honors.

PM 1940–1945, 1951–1955

Best remembered as the U.K.’s wartime prime minister from the country’s isolation in 1940 to victory in 1945.

Liberal who served in Asquith’s cabinet, becoming First Lord of the Admiralty before resigning over the failure of Gallipoli.

As Stanley Baldwin’s (PM 1923–1924, 1924–1929, 1935–1937) Chancellor of the Exchequer he put the U.K. on the gold standard.

Winning a second term as Prime Minister during the Korean War, in later life he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

PM 1945–1950

Won a huge Labour landslide victory in 1945 between the end of the war in Europe and victory in Japan.

founded the modern welfare state based on the Beveridge Report, including the National Health Service under minister Nye Bevan.

This PM's Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, took the U.K. out of Palestine and sent troops to the Korean War.

PM 1979–1990

U.K.’s first female prime minister was known as the “Iron Lady.”

Saw the collapse of British heavy industry and its replacement by a services-based economy, especially focused on banking.

Re-elected in 1983 after winning the Falklands War, and clashed with the mine workers’ leader Arthur Scargill

After losing popularity due to a poll tax was ousted by own party in favor of John Major

PM 1997–2007

Won a famous landslide election victory in 1997 to end 18 years of Conservative rule as “New Labour” movement abandoned traditional socialism and moved the Labour Party to the center.

Formerly Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, This PM succeeded Blair in 2007

close relationship with George W. Bush led to the U.K. joining the invasion of Iraq in 2003; his domestic legacy was higher public spending and the devolution of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

The American War of Independence was lost during his ministry.

(PM 1783–1801, 1804–1806) strengthened the role of the Prime Minister and pursued war against revolutionary France.

Prime Minister at the time of victory at the Battle of Waterloo, and faced social turmoil, including the Peterloo Massacre of protesters in Manchester

Signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, and promised “peace for our time” with a policy of appeasement.

British military failures in 1940 led to his replacement by Churchill.

said “you’ve never had it so good” as the British economy recovered in the late 1950s.

purged his cabinet in a mass sacking dubbed the “Night of the Long Knives” (no relation to the 1934 executions in Nazi Germany).

PM 2010–2016

led a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government and favored austerity economics and the elimination of the U.K.’s fiscal deficit.

He resigned after the Brexit vote in 2016.

Fought the War of Jenkins’ Ear against Spain at the end of his premiership

Subject of parodies by writers like Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson;

Walpole fought back with the Licensing Act of 1737

Also known as the Earl of Chatham; staunch imperialist; oversaw Seven Years’ War

Fort Duquesne was captured and renamed after him

Youngest Prime Minister; first took office at age 24

In 1946, coined the term “Iron Curtain”, referring to Soviet control of eastern Europe

PM during the first Gulf War;