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Sovereigns and Prime Ministers
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CHURCHILL’S SOVEREIGNSQueen Victoria, 1837-1901 King Edward VII, 1901-1910 King George V, 1910-1936 King Edward VIII, 1936 King George VI, 1936-1952 Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-present PRIME MINISTERS 1874-1965  NOTE: Alongside the Prime Minister is the political nature of his government. Several Prime Ministers, such as Asquith and Churchill, headed both one-party and Coalition (multi-party) governments. Thus, Churchill was actually Prime Minster three times, not two, as is usually represented--he headed a "caretaker" Conservative government of May-July 1945, formed when the wartime coalition ended pending the July 1945 general election. William Gladstone, Liberal, 1868-74 Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative (Tory), 1874-80 William Gladstone, Liberal, 1880-85 Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative (Tory), 1885-86 William Gladstone, Liberal, 1886 Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative (Tory), 1886-92 William Gladstone, Liberal, 1892-94 Earl of Rosebery, Liberal, 1894-95 Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative (Tory), 1895-02 Arthur Balfour, Conservative (Tory), 1902-05 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal, 1905-08 Herbert H. Asquith, Liberal, 1908-15 Herbert H. Asquith, Coalition, 1915-16 David Lloyd George, Coalition, 1916-22 Andrew Bonar Law, Conservative (Tory), 1922-23 Stanley Baldwin, Conservative (Tory), 1923-24 James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour, 1924 Stanley Baldwin, Conservative (Tory), 1924-29 James Ramsay Macdonald, Labour, 1929-31 James Ramsay Macdonald, National, 1931-35 Stanley Baldwin, National, 1935-37 Neville Chamberlain, National, 1937-40 Winston S. Churchill, Coalition, 1940-45 Winston S. Churchill, Conservative (Tory), 1945 Clement Attlee, Labour, 1945-51 Winston S. Churchill, Conservative (Tory), 1951-55 Sir Anthony Eden, Conservative (Tory), 1955-57 Harold Macmillan, Conservative (Tory), 1957-63 Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Conservative (Tory), 1963-64 Harold Wilson, Labour, 1964-70 |
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