| Portrait | Prime minister Office (Lifespan) |
Term of office | Mandate[a] | Ministerial offices held as prime minister | Party | Government | Monarch Reign |
Claimants to the Monarchy | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| start | end | duration | |||||||||
| | 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 | |||||||||||
| Winston Churchill[3] MP for Epping (1874–1965) |
10 May 1940 |
26 July 1945 |
5 years, 78 days | — | Churchill War | ||||||
| Churchill Caretaker (Con– | |||||||||||
| David Lloyd George[4] MP for Caernarfon (1863–1945) |
15 July 1944 |
26 March 1945 |
255 days | 1945 |
|
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 | |||||||||||
| Anthony Eden[6] MP for Warwick and Leamington (1897–1977) |
6 April 1955 |
9 January 1957 |
1 year, 279 days | 1955 | Eden | ||||||
| Harold Macmillan[7] MP for Bromley (1894–1986) |
10 January 1957 |
18 October 1963 |
6 years, 282 days | — | Macmillan I | ||||||
| 1959 | Macmillan II | ||||||||||
| 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 | |||||
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 273; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 253–259; Mosley 1999, p. 172; Pryde et al. 1996, p. 48.
- ↑ The Annual Register 1941, p. 11; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 289; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 270–274.
- ↑ The Annual Register 1946, p. 11; Butler & Butler 2010, pp. 17–21, 77; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 295; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 276–282; The London Gazette 1924.
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 305; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 284–289.
- ↑ BBC On This Day 2005; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 295; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 276–282; The London Gazette 1924; Mosley 1999, p. 1868; Pryde et al. 1996, p. 48.
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 315; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 291–295.
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 320; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 297–303.
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 329; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 306–310; Scully 2018.