List of British governments
Ministries

List of British governments

Section Title: Ministries
Table Section Text: None

Monarch	Head of government	Governing party	Government

1707	Anne	Duke of Marlborough	Tory	Whig	Godolphin–Marlborough ministry

1708

1710	Robert Harley	Tory	Harley ministry

1710

1713

1714	George I	Viscount Townshend	Whig	First Townshend ministry

1715

1717	Earl Stanhope	First Stanhope–Sunderland ministry

1718	Second Stanhope–Sunderland ministry

1721	Robert Walpole	Walpole–Townshend ministry

1722

1727	George II

1730	Walpole ministry

1734

1741

1742	Earl of Wilmington	Carteret ministry

1743	Henry Pelham

1744	Broad Bottom ministry

1747

1754	Duke of Newcastle	First Newcastle ministry

1754

1756	Duke of Devonshire	Pitt–Devonshire ministry

1757	1757 caretaker ministry

1757	Duke of Newcastle	Pitt–Newcastle ministry

1760	George III

1761

1762	Earl of Bute	Tory	Whig	Bute ministry

1763	George Grenville	Grenville ministry

1765	Marquess of Rockingham	Whig	First Rockingham ministry

1766	Earl of Chatham	Whig	Tory	Chatham ministry

1768

1768	Duke of Grafton	Grafton ministry

1770	Lord North	Tory	Whig	North ministry

1774	Tory

1780

1782	Marquess of Rockingham	Whig	Second Rockingham ministry

1782	Earl of Shelburne	Whig	Tory	Shelburne ministry

1783	Duke of Portland	Fox–North coalition

1783	William Pitt the Younger	Tory (minority)	First Pitt ministry

1784	Tory

1790

1794	Tory	Whig

1796

1801	Henry Addington	Tory	Addington ministry

1802

1804	William Pitt the Younger	Second Pitt ministry

1806	Lord Grenville	Whig	Tory	Ministry of All the Talents

1806

1807	Duke of Portland	Tory (minority)	Second Portland ministry

1807	Tory

1809	Spencer Perceval	Perceval ministry

1812	Earl of Liverpool	Liverpool ministry

1812

1818

1820	George IV

1826

1827	George Canning	Canningite	Whig	Canning ministry

1827	Viscount Goderich	Goderich ministry

1828	Duke of Wellington	Tory	Wellington–Peel ministry

1830	William IV

1830	Tory (minority)

1830	Earl Grey	Whig (minority)	Grey ministry

1831	Whig

1832

1834	Viscount Melbourne	First Melbourne ministry

1834	Duke of Wellington	Tory (minority)	Wellington caretaker ministry

1834	Robert Peel	Conservative (minority)	First Peel ministry

1835	Viscount Melbourne	Whig (minority)	Second Melbourne ministry

1837	Victoria	Whig

1839

1841	Robert Peel	Conservative	Second Peel ministry

1846	Lord John Russell	Whig (minority)	First Russell ministry

1847

1852	Earl of Derby	Conservative (minority)	Who? Who? ministry

1852	Conservative

1852	Earl of Aberdeen	Coalition (minority)	Aberdeen ministry

1855	Viscount Palmerston	Whig (minority)	First Palmerston ministry

1857	Whig

1858	Earl of Derby	Conservative (minority)	Second Derby–Disraeli ministry

1859	Viscount Palmerston	Liberal	Second Palmerston ministry

1865

1865	Earl Russell	Second Russell ministry

1866	Earl of Derby	Conservative (minority)	Third Derby–Disraeli ministry

1868	Benjamin Disraeli

1868	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal	First Gladstone ministry

1874	Benjamin Disraeli	Conservative	Second Disraeli ministry

1880	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal	Second Gladstone ministry

1885	Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative (minority)	First Salisbury ministry

1885	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal (minority)	Third Gladstone ministry

1886

1886	Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative (minority)	Second Salisbury ministry

1892	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal (minority)	Fourth Gladstone ministry

1894	Earl of Rosebery	Rosebery ministry

1895	Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative (minority)	Third Salisbury ministry

1895	Conservative	Liberal Unionist

1900

Fourth Salisbury ministry

1901	Edward VII

1902	Arthur Balfour	Balfour ministry

1905	Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Liberal (minority)	Campbell-Bannerman ministry

1906	Liberal

1908	H. H. Asquith	First Asquith ministry

1910	George V	Liberal (minority)	Second Asquith ministry

1910	Third Asquith ministry

1915	Coalition	Asquith coalition ministry

1916	David Lloyd George	Lloyd George war ministry

1918	Second Lloyd George ministry

1922	Bonar Law	Conservative	Law ministry

1922

1923	Stanley Baldwin	First Baldwin ministry

1924	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour (minority)	First MacDonald ministry

1924	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative	Second Baldwin ministry

1929	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour (minority)	Second MacDonald ministry

1931	National	First National Government

1931	Second National Government

1935	Stanley Baldwin	Third National Government

1935

1936	Edward VIII

1936	George VI

1937	Neville Chamberlain	Fourth National Government

1939	Chamberlain war ministry

1940	Winston Churchill	Coalition	Churchill war ministry

1945	National	Churchill caretaker ministry

1945	Clement Attlee	Labour	First Attlee ministry

1950	Second Attlee ministry

1951	Winston Churchill	Conservative	Third Churchill ministry

1952	Elizabeth II

1955	Anthony Eden	Eden ministry

1955

1957	Harold Macmillan	First Macmillan ministry

1959	Second Macmillan ministry

1963	Alec Douglas-Home	Douglas-Home ministry

1964	Harold Wilson	Labour	First Wilson ministry

1966	Second Wilson ministry

1970	Edward Heath	Conservative	Heath ministry

1974	Harold Wilson	Labour (minority)	Third Wilson ministry

1974	Labour	Fourth Wilson ministry

1976	James Callaghan	Callaghan ministry

1977	Labour (minority)

1979	Margaret Thatcher	Conservative	First Thatcher ministry

1983	Second Thatcher ministry

1987	Third Thatcher ministry

1990	John Major	First Major ministry

1992	Second Major ministry

1996	Conservative (minority)

1997	Tony Blair	Labour	First Blair ministry

2001	Second Blair ministry

2005	Third Blair ministry

2007	Gordon Brown	Brown ministry

2010	David Cameron	Conservative	Liberal Democrat	Cameron–Clegg coalition

2015	Conservative	Second Cameron ministry

2016	Theresa May	First May ministry

2017	Conservative (minority)	Second May ministry

Sentence(s)

The government of Great Britain was under the leadership of Duke of Devonshire from 1756 to 1757.

final_sentence: The government of Great Britain was under the leadership of Duke of Devonshire from 1756 to 1757.