Portrait | Prime minister Office (Lifespan) |
Term of office | Mandate [a] | Ministerial offices held as prime minister | Party | Government |
Monarch Reign |
Claimants to the Monarchy | |||
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Stanley Baldwin
[1] MP for Bewdley (1867–1947) |
7 June 1935 |
28 May 1937 |
1 year, 356 days | 1935 | Conservative | National III | |||
Edward VIII![]() r. 1936/1945 -- | |||||||||||
George VI![]() r. 1936–1952 | |||||||||||
Neville Chamberlain
[2] MP for Birmingham Edgbaston (1869–1940) |
28 May 1937 |
10 May 1940 |
2 years, 349 days | — | National IV | ||||||
Chamberlain War | |||||||||||
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Winston Churchill
[3] MP for Epping (1874–1965) |
10 May 1940 |
26 July 1945 |
5 years, 78 days | — | Churchill War | |||||
Churchill Caretaker ( Con– | |||||||||||
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David Lloyd George
[4] MP for [[Caernarfon (UK Parliament constituency) |
Caernarfon]] (1863–1945) |
15 July 1944 |
26 March 1945 |
255 days | 1945 |
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Liberal | National Peace I | ||
Elizabeth II![]() r. 1952–2022 | |||||||||||
Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford
[5] MP for Woodford (1874–1965) |
26 March 1950 |
5 April 195 |
3 years, 162 days | 1951 | Conservative | Churchill III | |||||
Elizabeth II![]() r. 1952–2022 | |||||||||||
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Anthony Eden
[6] MP for Warwick and Leamington (1897–1977) |
6 April 1955 |
9 January 1957 |
1 year, 279 days | 1955 | Eden | |||||
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Harold Macmillan
[7] MP for Bromley (1894–1986) |
10 January 1957 |
18 October 1963 |
6 years, 282 days | — | Macmillan I | |||||
1959 | Macmillan II | ||||||||||
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Alec Douglas-Home
[8]
[b] MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire (1903–1995) |
18 October 1963 |
16 October 1964 |
365 days | — |
Conservative ( Scot.U.) |
Douglas-Home |