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List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
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Top left: Walpole became the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1721.
Top right: Pitt the Younger became the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.
Bottom left: Lloyd George was the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922.
Bottom right: Baldwin was Prime Minister when the country was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the Government of the United Kingdom, and chairs Cabinet meetings. There is no specific date when the office of Prime Minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over a period of time.[1] The term was used in the House of Commons in 1805[2] and it was certainly in parliamentary use by the 1880s,[3][4] and in 1905 the post of Prime Minister was officially given recognition in the order of precedence.[5] Modern historians generally consider Sir Robert Walpole, who led the government of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742,[6][7] as the first Prime Minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving Prime Minister by this definition.[8] However, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the first Prime Minister and Margaret Thatcher the longest-serving Prime Minister to have been officially referred to as such.[5][9]
Strictly, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) was William Pitt the Younger.[10] The first Prime Minister of the current United Kingdom (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) was David Lloyd George,[11] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927 when Stanley Baldwin was serving as Prime Minister.[12]
Due to the gradual evolution of the post of Prime Minister, the title is applied to early Prime Ministers only retrospectively;[13] this has sometimes given rise to academic dispute. Lord Bath and Lord Waldegrave are both sometimes listed as prime ministers.[14] Bath was invited to form a ministry by King George II when Henry Pelham resigned in 1746,[15] as was Waldegrave in 1757 after the dismissal of William Pitt the Elder,[16] who dominated the government during the Seven Years' War. Neither was able to command sufficient parliamentary support to form a government; Bath stepped down after two days,[14] and Waldegrave after three.[16] Modern academic consensus does not consider either man to have held office as Prime Minister,[17] and they are not listed.
Contents
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1 Before 1721
2 Since 1721
3 Addenda
4 See also
5 Notes
6 Citations
7 Bibliography
8 Further reading
9 External links
Before 1721[edit]
Further information: List of chief ministers of England and Great Britain
Before the Georgian era, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer.[18] By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State[18] and tended to be the dominant figure in government: the Duke of Somerset, Lord High Treasurer (1547–1549),[19] served as Lord Protector to his nephew King Edward VI;[19] Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer (1572–1598),[20] was the dominant minister among Queen Elizabeth I's ministers;[20] Burghley's son Lord Salisbury succeeded his father as chief minister to Elizabeth I (1598–1603) and later served King James I as Lord High Treasurer (1608–1612).[21]
By the late Stuart period, the Treasury was often run not by a single individual such as a Lord High Treasurer but by a committee of Lords of the Treasury,[22] led by the First Lord of the Treasury. The last Lords High Treasurer, Lord Godolphin (1702–1710)[23] and Lord Oxford (1711–1714),[24] ran the government of Queen Anne.
After the succession of King George I in 1714, the arrangement of a commission of Lords of the Treasury as opposed to a single Lord High Treasurer became permanent.[25] For the next three years, the government was headed by Lord Townshend, who was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department.[26] Subsequently, Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland ran the government jointly,[27][28] with Stanhope managing foreign affairs and Sunderland managing domestic affairs.[27][28] Stanhope died in February 1721[27] and Sunderland resigned two months later;[28] Townshend and Robert Walpole were then invited to form the next government.[29][26] From that point, the holder of the office of First Lord also unofficially held the status of Prime Minister. It was not until the Edwardian era that the title Prime Minister was constitutionally recognised.[13] With only few exceptions, the Prime Minister still holds the office of First Lord by constitutional convention.[30]
Since 1721[edit]
By century and monarch
18th to 19th century
George I
George II
George III[a]
George IV
William IV
Victoria
20th to 21st century
Edward VII
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Elizabeth II
Whig (17) Tory (11) Conservative (17) Peelite (1) Liberal (7) Labour (6) National Labour (1)
Portrait
Name[b]
(Birth–Death)
Term of office[c]
Term
Ministerial portfolios
held as Prime Minister
Party[d]
Ministry
Monarch
(Reign)
Ref.
Duration
The Right Honourable
Robert Walpole
1st Earl of Orford
KGKBPC
MP for King's Lynn[e]
(1676–1745) 4 April
1721 11 February
1742 1722
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons[f]
Whig Walpole–Townshend
George I

(1714–1727)
[32]
1727
George II

(1727–1760)
1734 Walpole
1741
7003761900000000000♠20 years and 314 days
The Right Honourable
Spencer Compton
1st Earl of Wilmington
KGKBPC
(1673–1743) 16 February
1742 2 July
1743 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Whig Carteret [33]
7002502000000000000♠1 year and 137 days[†]
 The Right Honourable
Henry Pelham
FRS
MP for Sussex
(1694–1754) 27 August
1743 6 March
1754 1747
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Whig [34]
Broad Bottom I
Broad Bottom II
7003384500000000000♠10 years and 192 days[†]
His Grace
Thomas Pelham-Holles
1st Duke of Newcastle
KGPCFRS
(1693–1768) 16 March
1754 16 November
1756 1754
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Newcastle I [35]
7002977000000000000♠2 years and 246 days
His Grace
William Cavendish
4th Duke of Devonshire
KGPC
(1720–1764) 16 November
1756 25 June
1757 —
First Lord of the Treasury[g]
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Pitt–Devonshire [36]
 1757 Caretaker
7002222000000000000♠222 days
His Grace
Thomas Pelham-Holles
1st Duke of Newcastle
KGPCFRS
(1693–1768) 2 July
1757 26 May
1762 1761
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Pitt–Newcastle [35]
George III

(1760–1820)
7003179000000000000♠4 years and 329 days
The Right Honourable
John Stuart
3rd Earl of Bute
KGPC
(1713–1792) 26 May
1762 8 April
1763 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Tory Bute
(Tory–Whig) [37]
7002318000000000000♠318 days
The Right Honourable
George Grenville
MP for Buckingham
(1712–1770) 16 April
1763 13 July
1765 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Whig
(Grenvillite) Grenville
(Whig–Tory) [38]
7002820000000000000♠2 years and 89 days
The Most Honourable
Charles Watson-Wentworth
2nd Marquess of Rockingham
KGPCFRS
(1730–1782) 13 July
1765 30 July
1766 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig
(Rockinghamite) Rockingham I [39]
7002383000000000000♠1 year and 18 days
The Right Honourable
William Pitt
1st Earl of Chatham
PCFRS
MP for Bath[h]
(1708–1778) 30 July
1766 14 October
1768 1768
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
Whig
(Chathamite) Chatham
(Whig–Tory) [40]
7002808000000000000♠2 years and 77 days
His Grace
Augustus FitzRoy
3rd Duke of Grafton
KGPC
(1735–1811) 14 October
1768 28 January
1770 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig
(Chathamite) Grafton [41]
7002472000000000000♠1 year and 107 days
The Right Honourable
Frederick North
Lord North
KG
MP for Banbury
(1732–1792) 28 January
1770 22 March
1782 [ad 1]
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Tory
(Northite) North [42]
1774
1780
7003443700000000000♠12 years and 54 days
The Most Honourable
Charles Watson-Wentworth
2nd Marquess of Rockingham
KGPCFRS
(1730–1782) 27 March
1782 1 July
1782 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig
(Rockinghamite) Rockingham II [39]
7001970000000000000♠97 days[†]
The Right Honourable
William Petty
2nd Earl of Shelburne
KGPC
(1737–1805) 4 July
1782 2 April
1783 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig
(Chathamite) Shelburne
(Whig–Tory) [43]
7002273000000000000♠273 days
His Grace
William Cavendish-Bentinck
3rd Duke of Portland
PCFRS
(1738–1809) 2 April
1783 19 December
1783 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Fox–North [44]
7002262000000000000♠262 days
The Right Honourable
William Pitt the Younger
MP for Appleby – Cambridge University[i]
(1759–1806) 19 December
1783 14 March
1801 [ad 2]
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Tory
(Pittite) Pitt I [45]
1784
1790
1796
7003629500000000000♠17 years and 86 days
The Right Honourable
Henry Addington
MP for Devizes
(1757–1844) 17 March
1801 10 May
1804 1801
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Tory
(Pittite) Addington [46]
1802
7003115100000000000♠3 years and 55 days
The Right Honourable
William Pitt the Younger
MP for Cambridge University
(1759–1806) 10 May
1804 23 January
1806 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Tory
(Pittite) Pitt II [45]
7002624000000000000♠1 year and 259 days[†]
The Right Honourable
William Grenville
1st Baron Grenville
PCPC (Ire)
(1759–1834) 11 February
1806 31 March
1807 [ad 3]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig All the Talents
(Whig–Tory) [47]
1806
7002414000000000000♠1 year and 49 days
His Grace
William Cavendish-Bentinck
3rd Duke of Portland
KGPCFRS
(1738–1809) 31 March
1807 4 October
1809 [ad 2]
First Lord of the Treasury
Tory
(Pittite) Portland II [44]
1807
7002919000000000000♠2 years and 188 days
The Right Honourable
Spencer Perceval
KC
MP for Northampton
(1762–1812) 4 October
1809 11 May
1812 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Leader of the House of Commons
Tory
(Pittite) Perceval [48]
7002951000000000000♠2 years and 221 days[‡]
The Right Honourable
Robert Jenkinson
2nd Earl of Liverpool
KGPCFRS
(1770–1828) 8 June
1812 9 April
1827 1812
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Tory
(Pittite) Liverpool [49]
1818
1820
George IV

(1820–1830)
1826
7003541900000000000♠14 years and 306 days
The Right Honourable
George Canning
FRS
MP for Seaford
(1770–1827) 10 April
1827 8 August
1827 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Tory
(Canningite) Canning
(Canningite–Whig) [50]
7002121000000000000♠121 days[†]
The Right Honourable
Frederick John Robinson
1st Viscount Goderich
PC
(1782–1859) 31 August
1827 21 January
1828 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Tory
(Canningite) Goderich [51]
7002144000000000000♠144 days
His Grace
Arthur Wellesley
1st Duke of Wellington
KGGCBGCHPC
(1769–1852) 22 January
1828 16 November
1830 [ad 4]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Tory Wellington–Peel [52]
1830
William IV

(1830–1837)
7003103000000000000♠2 years and 299 days
The Right Honourable
Charles Grey
2nd Earl Grey
KGPC
(1764–1845) 22 November
1830 9 July
1834 [ad 2]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Grey [53]
1831
1832
7003132600000000000♠3 years and 230 days
The Right Honourable
William Lamb
2nd Viscount Melbourne
PC
(1779–1848) 16 July
1834 14 November
1834 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Melbourne I [54]
7002122000000000000♠122 days
His Grace
Arthur Wellesley
1st Duke of Wellington
KGGCBGCHPC
(1769–1852) 14 November
1834 10 December
1834 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Sec. of State for the Home Department
Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs
Sec. of State for War and the Colonies
Leader of the House of Lords
Tory Wellington Caretaker [52]
7001270000000000000♠27 days
The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Peel
BtFRS
MP for Tamworth
(1788–1850) 10 December
1834 8 April
1835 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative Peel I [55]
7002120000000000000♠120 days
The Right Honourable
William Lamb
2nd Viscount Melbourne
PCFRS
(1779–1848) 18 April
1835 30 August
1841 1835
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Whig Melbourne II [54]
1837
Victoria

(1837–1901)
7003232700000000000♠6 years and 135 days
The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Peel
BtFRS
MP for Tamworth
(1788–1850) 30 August
1841 29 June
1846 1841
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative Peel II [55]
7003176500000000000♠4 years and 304 days
The Right Honourable
Lord John Russell
FRS
MP for the City of London
(1792–1878) 30 June
1846 21 February
1852 1847
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Whig Russell I [56]
7003206300000000000♠5 years and 237 days
The Right Honourable
Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby
PC
(1799–1869) 23 February
1852 17 December
1852 [ad 2]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Conservative Who? Who? [57]
1852
7002299000000000000♠299 days
The Right Honourable
George Hamilton-Gordon
4th Earl of Aberdeen
KTFRSEFRSPCFSA Scot
(1784–1860) 19 December
1852 30 January
1855 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Peelite Aberdeen
(Peelite–Whig) [58]
7002773000000000000♠2 years and 43 days
The Right Honourable
Henry John Temple
3rd Viscount Palmerston
KGGCBPCFRS
MP for Tiverton
(1784–1865) 6 February
1855 19 February
1858 [ad 2]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Whig Palmerston I [59]
1857
7003111000000000000♠3 years and 14 days
The Right Honourable
Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby
PC
(1799–1869) 20 February
1858 11 June
1859 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Conservative Derby–Disraeli II [57]
7002477000000000000♠1 year and 112 days
The Right Honourable
Henry John Temple
3rd Viscount Palmerston
KGGCBPCFRS
MP for Tiverton
(1784–1865) 12 June
1859 18 October
1865 1859
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Liberal Palmerston II [59]
1865
7003232100000000000♠6 years and 129 days[†]
The Right Honourable
John Russell
1st Earl Russell
KGPCFRS
(1792–1878) 29 October
1865 26 June
1866 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Liberal Russell II [56]
7002241000000000000♠241 days
The Right Honourable
Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby
KGPC
(1799–1869) 28 June
1866 25 February
1868 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Lords
Conservative Derby–Disraeli III [57]
7002608000000000000♠1 year and 243 days
The Right Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli
MP for Buckinghamshire
(1804–1881) See also § Premierships:1
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative [60]
27 February
1868 1 December
1868 —
7002279000000000000♠279 days
The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone
FSS
MP for Greenwich
(1809–1898) See also § Premierships:2
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Exchequer[j]
Liberal Gladstone I [61]
3 December
1868 17 February
1874 1868
7003190300000000000♠5 years and 77 days
The Right Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
KGPCFRS
MP for Buckinghamshire[k]
(1804–1881) See also § Premierships:1
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons[l]
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal[m]
Leader of the House of Lords[n]
Conservative Disraeli II [60]
20 February
1874 21 April
1880 1874
7003225300000000000♠6 years and 62 days
The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone
FRSFSS
MP for Midlothian
(1809–1898) See also § Premierships:2
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Exchequer[o]
Liberal Gladstone II [61]
23 April
1880 9 June
1885 1880
7003187400000000000♠5 years and 48 days
The Most Honourable
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
3rd Marquess of Salisbury
KGPCFRSDL
(1830–1903) 23 June
1885 28 January
1886 —
Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs
Leader of the House of Lords
Conservative Salisbury I [62]
7002220000000000000♠220 days
The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone
FRSFSS
MP for Midlothian
(1809–1898) See also § Premierships:2
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
Leader of the House of Commons
Liberal Gladstone III [61]
1 February
1886 20 July
1886 1885
7002170000000000000♠170 days
The Most Honourable
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
3rd Marquess of Salisbury
KGPCFRSDL
(1830–1903) 25 July
1886 11 August
1892 1886
Leader of the House of Lords
First Lord of the Treasury[p]
Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs[q]
Conservative Salisbury II [62]
7003221000000000000♠6 years and 18 days
The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone
FRSFSS
MP for Midlothian
(1809–1898) See also § Premierships:2
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
Leader of the House of Commons
Liberal Gladstone IV [61]
15 August
1892 2 March
1894 1892
7002565000000000000♠1 year and 200 days
The Right Honourable
Archibald Primrose
5th Earl of Rosebery
KGPCFRS
(1847–1929) 5 March
1894 22 June
1895 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord President of the Council
Leader of the House of Lords
Liberal Rosebery [63]
7002475000000000000♠1 year and 110 days
The Most Honourable
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
3rd Marquess of Salisbury
KGPCFRSDL
(1830–1903) 25 June
1895 11 July
1902 [ad 2]
Leader of the House of Lords
Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs[r]
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal[s]
Conservative Salisbury III
(Con.–Lib.U.) [62]
1895
1900
7003257300000000000♠7 years and 17 days
Edward VII

(1901–1910)
The Right Honourable
Arthur Balfour
FRSDL
MP for Manchester East
(1848–1930) 11 July
1902 5 December
1905 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative Balfour [64]
7003124400000000000♠3 years and 148 days
The Right Honourable
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
GCB
MP for Stirling Burghs
(1836–1908) 5 December
1905 7 April
1908 [ad 2]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Liberal Campbell-Bannerman [65]
1906
7002855000000000000♠2 years and 125 days
The Right Honourable
Herbert Henry Asquith
KCFRS
MP for East Fife
(1852–1928) 7 April
1908 5 December
1916 [ad 5]
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Sec. of State for War[t]
Liberal Asquith I [66]
Jan.1910
 Dec.1910
George V

(1910–1936)
 Asquith II
(Lib.–Con.–et al.)
7003316500000000000♠8 years and 243 days
The Right Honourable
David Lloyd George
OM
MP for Caernarvon Boroughs
(1863–1945) 6 December
1916 19 October
1922 [ad 6]
First Lord of the Treasury
Liberal Lloyd George War [67]
1918 Lloyd George II
(Lib.–Con.)
7003214400000000000♠5 years and 318 days
The Right Honourable
Bonar Law
MP for Glasgow Central
(1858–1923) 23 October
1922 20 May
1923 1922
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative
(Scot.U.) Law [68]
7002210000000000000♠210 days
The Right Honourable
Stanley Baldwin
JP
MP for Bewdley
(1867–1947) 23 May
1923 16 January
1924 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Exchequer[u]
Conservative Baldwin I [69]
7002239000000000000♠239 days
The Right Honourable
Ramsay MacDonald
MP for Aberavon
(1866–1937) 22 January
1924 4 November
1924 1923
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs
Labour MacDonald I [70]
7002288000000000000♠288 days
The Right Honourable
Stanley Baldwin
JPFRS
MP for Bewdley
(1867–1947) 4 November
1924 5 June
1929 1924
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative Baldwin II [69]
7003167500000000000♠4 years and 214 days
The Right Honourable
Ramsay MacDonald
FRS
MP for Seaham
(1866–1937) 5 June
1929 7 June
1935 1929
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Labour MacDonald II [70]
National Labour National I
(N.Lab.–Con.–et al.)
1931 National II
7003219400000000000♠6 years and 3 days
 The Right Honourable
Stanley Baldwin
JPFRS
MP for Bewdley
(1867–1947) 7 June
1935 28 May
1937 1935
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative National III
(Con.–N.Lab.–et al.) [69]
Edward VIII

(1936)
George VI

(1936–1952)
7002722000000000000♠1 year and 356 days
The Right Honourable
Neville Chamberlain
FRS
MP for Birmingham Edgbaston
(1869–1940) 28 May
1937 10 May
1940 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Leader of the House of Commons
Conservative National IV [71]
 Chamberlain War
7003107900000000000♠2 years and 349 days
The Right Honourable
Winston Churchill
CHTDPCcFRS
MP for Epping
(1874–1965) 10 May
1940 26 July
1945 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Minister of Defence
Leader of the House of Commons[v]
Conservative Churchill War
(All parties) [72]
 Churchill Caretaker
(Con.–Lib.N.)
7003190400000000000♠5 years and 78 days
The Right Honourable
Clement Attlee
CHFRS
MP for Limehouse – Walthamstow West[w]
(1883–1967) 26 July
1945 26 October
1951 1945
First Lord of the Treasury
Minister of Defence[x]
Labour Attlee I [73]
1950 Attlee II
7003228400000000000♠6 years and 93 days
The Right Honourable
Sir Winston Churchill
KGOMCHTDPCcDLFRSRA
MP for Woodford
(1874–1965) 26 October
1951 6 April
1955 1951
First Lord of the Treasury
Minister of Defence[y]
Conservative Churchill III [72]
7003125900000000000♠3 years and 163 days
Elizabeth II

(1952–present)
The Right Honourable
Sir Anthony Eden
KGMC
MP for Warwick & Leamington
(1897–1977) 6 April
1955 10 January
1957 1955
First Lord of the Treasury
Conservative Eden [74]
7002646000000000000♠1 year and 280 days
The Right Honourable
Harold Macmillan
FRS
MP for Bromley
(1894–1986) 10 January
1957 19 October
1963 1959
First Lord of the Treasury
Conservative Macmillan I [75]
 Macmillan II
7003247400000000000♠6 years and 283 days
The Right Honourable
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
KT
MP for Kinross & Western Perthshire[z]
(1903–1995) 19 October
1963 16 October
1964 —
First Lord of the Treasury
Conservative
(Scot.U.) Douglas-Home [76]
7002364000000000000♠364 days
The Right Honourable
Harold Wilson
OBEFRS
MP for Huyton
(1916–1995) 16 October
1964 19 June
1970 1964
First Lord of the Treasury
Minister for the Civil Service[aa]
Labour Wilson I [77]
1966 Wilson II
7003207300000000000♠5 years and 247 days
The Right Honourable
Edward Heath
MBE
MP for Bexley – Sidcup[ab]
(1916–2005) 19 June
1970 4 March
1974 1970
First Lord of the Treasury
Minister for the Civil Service
Conservative Heath [78]
7003135500000000000♠3 years and 259 days
The Right Honourable
Harold Wilson
OBEFRS
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Jump up ^ Including political factions and electoral alliances where applicable.
Jump up ^ Elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain on 6 February 1742.
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Jump up ^ Served as First Lord until 8 June 1757 and from 12 June.
Jump up ^ Elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain on 4 August 1766.
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Jump up ^ Served as Chancellor from 11 August 1873.
Jump up ^ Elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 12 August 1876.
Jump up ^ Served as Commons Leader until 21 August 1876.
Jump up ^ Served as Lord Keeper from 12 August 1876 to 4 February 1878.
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Jump up ^ Served as Minister until 20 December 1946.
Jump up ^ Served as Minister until 1 March 1952.
Jump up ^ Earl of Home until 23 October 1963. Elected MP on 7 November.
Jump up ^ Served as Minister from 1 November 1968.
Jump up ^ Elected to a new constituency in the February 1974 general election.
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Jump up ^ Sir John Eardley-Wilmot (20 March 1885). "Boroughs to Lose One Member". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 296. House of Commons. col. 156–157.
Jump up ^ Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane (14 April 1885). "Central Asia – Russia and Afghanistan – the Russo–Afghan Frontier – Russian Advances". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 296. House of Commons. col. 1634–1635.
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^ Jump up to: a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stanhope, Earls". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Carpenter, Clive, ed. (1992). The Guinness UK Data Book. Guinness. ISBN 978-0-85112-522-0.
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Eccleshall, Robert; Walker, Graham, eds. (1 June 2002). Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-66230-2.
Hennessy, Peter (5 October 2001). "The Platonic Idea and the Constitutional Deal". The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-29313-0.
Leonard, Dick (15 December 2010). Eighteenth-Century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-0-230-30463-5.
Marriott, John (1923). English Political Institutions: An Introductory Study (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. OL 17361473W  .
Seaman, L.C.B. (2 September 2003). "The Downfall of Lloyd George, 1922". Post-Victorian Britain 1902–1951. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-95491-9.
Further reading[edit]
Bogdanor, Vernon, ed. (2010). From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair. Palgrave Macmillan UK (published 20 October 2016). ISBN 978-0-230-29700-5.
Browne, J. Houston (1858). Lives of the Prime Ministers of England: From the Restoration to the Present Time. 1. London: Thomas Cautley Newby.
Davidson, Jonathan (30 November 2010). Downing Street Blues: A History of Depression and Other Mental Afflictions in British Prime Ministers. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5793-9.
Grube, Dennis (11 October 2013). Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-137-31836-7.
King, Anthony Stephen, ed. (1985). The British Prime Minister (2nd ed.). Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-0635-2.
Leonard, Dick (10 July 2008). Nineteenth Century Premiers: Pitt to Rosebery. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-0-230-22725-5.
Parker, Robert J. (15 March 2011). British Prime Ministers. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-1242-3.
Quinault, Roland (17 March 2011). British Prime Ministers and Democracy: From Disraeli to Blair. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-1105-0.
External links[edit]
"Past Prime Ministers". gov.uk. Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008.
"Prime Ministers and Politics Timeline". BBC History. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Theatrical release poster by Tom Beauvais
Directed by
George Roy Hill
Produced by
John Foreman
Written by
William Goldman
Starring
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
Katharine Ross
Strother Martin
Jeff Corey
Henry Jones
Music by
Burt Bacharach
Cinematography
Conrad Hall
Edited by
John C. Howard
Richard C. Meyer
Production
company
Campanile Productions
Newman-Foreman Company
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
October 24, 1969 (1969-10-24)
Running time
110 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$6 million[2]
Box office
$102.3 million (North America)[3]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia in search of a more successful criminal career, where they meet their end.
In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 49th-greatest American film on its 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Screenplay
3.2 Development
4 Reception
4.1 Premieres
4.2 Critical response
4.3 Box office
4.4 Awards and nominations
5 Legacy
6 See also
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links
Plot[edit]
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid". The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall (Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan as their new leader.
Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces Harvey's idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first.
The first robbery goes well. To celebrate, Butch and Sundance visit a favorite brothel in a nearby town and watch, amused, as the town sheriff unsuccessfully attempts to organize a posse to track down the gang. They then visit Sundance's lover, schoolteacher Etta Place.
On the second train robbery, Butch uses too much dynamite to blow open the safe, blowing up the baggage car. As the gang scrambles to gather up the money, a second train arrives carrying a six-man team of lawmen pursuing Butch and Sundance, who unsuccessfully try to hide out in the brothel and to seek amnesty from the friendly Sheriff Bledsoe by enlisting in the army.
As the posse remains in pursuit, despite all attempts to elude them, Butch and Sundance determine that the group includes renowned Indian tracker "Lord Baltimore" and relentless lawman Joe Lefors, recognizable by his white skimmer. Butch and Sundance finally elude their pursuers by jumping from a cliff into a river far below. They learn from Etta that the posse has been paid by Union Pacific head E. H. Harriman to remain on their trail until Butch and Sundance are both killed.
Butch convinces Sundance and Etta that the three should escape to Bolivia, which Butch envisions as a robber's paradise. On their arrival there, Sundance is dismayed by the living conditions and regards the country with contempt, but Butch remains optimistic. They discover that they know too little Spanish to pull off a bank robbery, so Etta attempts to teach them the language. With her as an accomplice, they become successful bank robbers known as Los Bandidos Yanquis. However, their confidence drops when they see a man wearing a white hat (the signature of determined lawman Lefors) and fear that Harriman's posse is still after them.
Butch suggests "going straight", and he and Sundance land their first honest job as payroll guards for a mining company. However, they are ambushed by local bandits on their first run and their boss, Percy Garris, is killed. Butch and Sundance ambush and kill the bandits, the first time Butch has ever shot someone. Etta recommends farming or ranching as other lines of work, but they conclude the straight life isn't for them. Sensing they will be killed if they return to robbery, Etta decides to go back to the United States.
Butch and Sundance steal a payroll and the mules carrying it, and arrive in a small town. A boy recognizes the mules' brand and alerts the local police, leading to a gunfight with the outlaws. They take cover in a building but are both seriously wounded, after Butch makes a futile attempt to run to the mules in order to bring more ammunition, while Sundance provides cover fire. As dozens of Bolivian soldiers surround the area, Butch suggests the duo's next destination should be Australia. The film ends with a freeze frame shot on the pair charging out of the building, guns blazing, before the Bolivian forces open fire.
Cast[edit]
Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy
Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid
Katharine Ross as Etta Place
Strother Martin as Percy Garris
Henry Jones as Bike Salesman
Jeff Corey as Sheriff Bledsoe
George Furth as Woodcock
Cloris Leachman as Agnes
Ted Cassidy as Harvey Logan
Kenneth Mars as Marshal
Donnelly Rhodes as Macon
Timothy Scott as "News" Carver
Charles Dierkop as Flat Nose Curry
Production[edit]
Screenplay[edit]
William Goldman first came across the story of Butch Cassidy in the late 1950s and researched it on and off for eight years before sitting down to write the screenplay.[4] Goldman says he wrote the story as an original screenplay because he did not want to do the research to make it authentic as a novel.[5] Goldman later stated:
The whole reason I wrote the ... thing, there is that famous line that Scott Fitzgerald wrote, who was one of my heroes, "There are no second acts in American lives." When I read about Cassidy and Longbaugh and the superposse coming after them—that's phenomenal material. They ran to South America and lived there for eight years and that was what thrilled me: they had a second act. They were more legendary in South America than they had been in the old West ... It's a great story. Those two guys and that pretty girl going down to South America and all that stuff. It just seems to me it's a wonderful piece of material.[5]
The characters' flight to South America caused one executive to reject the script, as it was then unusual in Western films for the protagonists to flee.[6]
Development[edit]
According to Goldman, when he first wrote the script and sent it out for consideration, only one studio wanted to buy it—and that was with the proviso that the two lead characters did not flee to South America. When Goldman protested that that was what had happened, the studio head responded, "I don't give a shit. All I know is John Wayne don't run away."[7]
Goldman rewrote the script, "didn't change it more than a few pages, and subsequently found that every studio wanted it."[7]
The role of Sundance was offered to Jack Lemmon, whose production company, JML, had produced the film Cool Hand Luke (1967) starring Newman. Lemmon, however, turned down the role; he did not like riding horses, and he felt he had already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before.[8] Other actors considered for the role of Sundance were Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty, who both turned it down, with Beatty claiming that the film was too similar to Bonnie and Clyde. According to Goldman, McQueen and Newman both read the scripts at the same time and agreed to do the film. McQueen eventually backed out of the film due to disagreements with Newman. The two actors would eventually team up in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno.
Reception[edit]
Premieres[edit]
The world premiere of the movie was in September 1969, at the Roger Sherman Theater, in New Haven, Connecticut. The premiere was attended by Paul Newman, his wife Joanne Woodward, Robert Redford, George Roy Hill, William Goldman, and John Foreman, among others.[9] It premiered in Los Angeles, the next day, and in New York City on October 1.[10]
Critical response[edit]
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The response of major American movie reviewers was widely favorable. Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregator, give 89% "Certified fresh" favorable score based on 46 reviews with an average score of 8.2/10, the site's critical consensus reads:"With its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, jaunty screenplay and Burt Bacharach score, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has gone down as among the defining moments in late-'60s American cinema."[11] Newman and Redford's chemistry was praised as was the film's charm and humor.[citation needed]
Time magazine said the film's two male stars are "afflicted with cinematic schizophrenia. One moment they are sinewy, battered remnants of a discarded tradition. The next they are low comedians whose chaffing relationship—and dialogue—could have been lifted from a Batman and Robin episode."[12] Time also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic.
Roger Ebert's review of the movie was a mixed 2.5 out of 4 stars. "The movie starts promisingly ... a scene where Butch puts down a rebellion in his gang [is] one of the best things in the movie ... And then we meet Sundance's girlfriend, played by Katharine Ross, and the scenes with the three of them have you thinking you've wandered into a really first-rate film." But after Harriman hires his posse, Ebert thought the movie's quality declined: "Hill apparently spent a lot of money to take his company on location for these scenes, and I guess when he got back to Hollywood he couldn't bear to edit them out of the final version. So the Super-posse chases our heroes unceasingly, until we've long since forgotten how well the movie started." The dialogue in the final scenes is "so bad we can't believe a word anyone says. And then the violent, bloody ending is also a mistake; apparently it was a misguided attempt to copy "Bonnie and Clyde. ..." we don't believe it, and we walk out of the theater wondering what happened to that great movie we were seeing until an hour ago."[13]
The Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay #11 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written.[14]
Box office[edit]
The film earned $15 million in rentals in North America during its first year of release.[15]
With US box office of over US$100 million,[16] it was the top grossing film of the year. Adjusted for inflation, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ranks as the 34th top-grossing film of all time and the top 10 for its decade, due in part to subsequent re-releases.[citation needed]
It was the eighth most popular film of 1970 in France.[17]
Awards and nominations[edit]
The film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography; Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical); Best Music, Song (Burt Bacharach and Hal David for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"); and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced. It was also nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Sound (William Edmondson and David Dockendorf).[18]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid also won numerous British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (won by Redford though Newman was also nominated), and Best Actress for Katharine Ross, among others.[19]
William Goldman won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.[20]
In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1998.[21]
Legacy[edit]
The film inspired the television series Alias Smith and Jones, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws trying to earn an amnesty.[22]
A parody titled "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid" was published in MAD. It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by Arnie Kogen in issue No. 136, July 1970.[23]
See also[edit]
List of American films of 1969
Antihero (Cassidy and Sundance are antiheroes)
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Box Office Data, DVD and Blu-ray Sales, Movie News, Cast and Crew Information". The Numbers. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
Jump up ^ Goldman, William (1982). Adventures in the Screen Trade. pp. 191–200.
^ Jump up to: a b Egan, p. 90
Jump up ^ Nixon, Rob. "The Big Idea – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Turner Classic Movies, Inc. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Egan, p. 91
Jump up ^ Flynn, Bob (August 15, 1998). "A slice of Lemmon for extra character". The Canberra Time. Panorama. p. 7.
Jump up ^ Tiffany Woo (October 26, 2009). "'Butch Cassidy' returns after 40 years". Yale Daily News. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". AFI website. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
Jump up ^ "Double Vision". Time. September 26, 1969. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
Jump up ^ "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Chicago Sun-Times. October 13, 1969.
Jump up ^ Savage, Sophia (February 27, 2013). "WGA Lists Greatest Screenplays, From 'Casablanca' and 'Godfather' to 'Memento' and 'Notorious'". Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Big Rental Films of 1969", Variety, 7 January 1970 p 15
Jump up ^ "Domestic Grosses Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
Jump up ^ "1970 Box Office in France". Box Office Story.
Jump up ^ "The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
Jump up ^ "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Awards". IMDB. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
Jump up ^ "William Goldman – Awards & Nominations". awardsandwinners.com.
Jump up ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
Jump up ^ "Alias Smith and Jones". Archived from the original on December 31, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-09.
Jump up ^ MAD #136 July 1970 at MAD cover site.
Bibliography[edit]
Egan, Sean (2014). William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller. Bear Manor Media.
External links[edit]
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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
The Sting (1973)
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Slap Shot (1977)
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Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961)
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Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958)
Soldier in the Rain (1960)
Boys and Girls Together (1964)
No Way to Treat a Lady (1964)
The Thing of It Is... (1967)
Father's Day (1971; sequel to The Thing of It Is)
The Princess Bride (1973)
Wigger (1974)
Marathon Man (1974)
Magic (1976)
Tinsel (1979)
Control (1982)
The Silent Gondoliers (1983)
The Color of Light (1984)
Heat (1985)
Brothers (1986)
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Masquerade (1965)
Harper (1966)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Hot Rock (1972)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)
All the President's Men (1976)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Magic (1978)
Mr. Horn (1979, TV)
Heat (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Misery (1990)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Year of the Comet (1992)
Chaplin (1992)
Maverick (1994)
The Chamber (1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Absolute Power (1997)
The General's Daughter (1999)
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Wild Card (2015)
Non-fiction
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969)
The Story of 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977)
Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983)
Wait Till Next Year (with Mike Lupica, 1988)
Hype and Glory (1990)
Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000)
The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays (2000)
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All About Eve (1950)
La Ronde (1951)
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