List of British governments

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Date Monarch Head of Government Party in Office Cabinet members Full list of ministers
1660 Charles II     Clarendon Ministry
1667 Cabal Ministry
1673 First Danby Ministry
1679 Privy Council Ministry
1679 First Rochester Ministry
1684 Godolphin Ministry
1685 James II     Second Rochester Ministry
1687 Belasyse Ministry
1689 William III and Mary II     Carmarthen/Halifax Ministry
1694 Carmarthen Ministry
1694 William III     First Whig Junto
1699 Pembroke Ministry
1702 Anne     Coalition Ministry
1708 Second Whig Junto
1710 The Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Tory Harley Ministry
1714 George I   Whig Townshend Ministry  
1717 First Stanhope/Sunderland Ministry
1718 Second Stanhope/Sunderland Ministry
1721 Sir Robert Walpole Walpole/Townshend Ministry
1727 George II
1730 Walpole Ministry
1742 The Earl of Wilmington Carteret Ministry
1743 Henry Pelham
1744 Broad Bottom Ministry
1746 The Earl of Bath Short-lived Ministry
1746 Henry Pelham Second Pelham Ministry
1754 The Duke of Newcastle First Newcastle Ministry
1756 The Duke of Devonshire Pitt the Elder Ministry
1757 1757 Caretaker Ministry
1757 The Duke of Newcastle Newcastle/Pitt Ministry
1760 George III
1762 The Earl of Bute Tory Bute Ministry
1763 George Grenville   Grenville Ministry
1765 The Marquess of Rockingham First Rockingham Ministry
1766 The Earl of Chatham Chatham Ministry
1768 The Duke of Grafton Grafton Ministry
1770 Lord North North Ministry
1782 The Marquess of Rockingham Second Rockingham Ministry
1782 The Earl of Shelburne Shelburne Ministry
1783 The Duke of Portland Fox-North Coalition
1783 William Pitt the Younger First Pitt the Younger Ministry
1801 Henry Addington Addington Ministry
1804 William Pitt the Younger Second Pitt the Younger Ministry
1806 The Lord Grenville Ministry of All the Talents
1807 The Duke of Portland Second Portland Ministry
1809 Spencer Perceval Perceval Ministry
1812 The Earl of Liverpool Tory Liverpool Ministry Tory Government 1812-1827
1820 George IV
1827 George Canning Canningite and Whig Canning Ministry Canningite Government 1827-1828
1827 The Viscount Goderich Goderich Ministry
1828 The Duke of Wellington Tory Wellington Ministry Tory Government 1828-1830
1830 William IV
1830 The Earl Grey Whig Grey Ministry Whig Government 1830-1834
1834 The Viscount Melbourne First Melbourne Ministry
1834 The Duke of Wellington Conservative Wellington Caretaker Ministry
1834 Sir Robert Peel First Peel Ministry Conservative Government 1834-1835
1835 The Viscount Melbourne Whig Second Melbourne Ministry Whig Government 1835-1841
1837 Victoria
1839 Third Melbourne Ministry
1841 Sir Robert Peel Conservative Second Peel Ministry Conservative Government 1841-1846
1846 Lord John Russell Whig First Russell Ministry Whig Government 1846-1852
1852 The Earl of Derby Conservative Who? Who? Ministry Conservative Government 1852
1852 The Earl of Aberdeen Coalition Aberdeen Ministry Coalition Government 1852-1855
1855 The Viscount Palmerston Whig and Peelite First Palmerston Ministry Palmerston Government 1855-1858
1858 The Earl of Derby Conservative Second Derby Ministry Conservative Government 1858-1859
1859 The Viscount Palmerston Liberal Second Palmerston Ministry Liberal Government 1859-1866
1865 The Earl Russell Second Russell Ministry
1866 The Earl of Derby Conservative Third Derby Ministry Conservative Government 1866-1868
1868 Benjamin Disraeli First Disraeli Ministry
1868 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal First Gladstone Ministry Liberal Government 1868-1874
1874 Benjamin Disraeli Conservative Second Disraeli Ministry Conservative Government 1874-1880
1880 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal Second Gladstone Ministry Liberal Government 1880-1885
1885 The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative First Salisbury Ministry Conservative Government 1885-1886
1886 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal Third Gladstone Ministry Liberal Government 1886
1886 The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative Second Salisbury Ministry Conservative Government 1886-1892
1892 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal Fourth Gladstone Ministry Liberal Government 1892-1895
1894 The Earl of Rosebery Rosebery Ministry
1895 The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative and Unionist Third Salisbury Ministry Unionist Government 1895-1905
1901 Edward VII
1902 Arthur Balfour Balfour Ministry
1905 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Liberal Campbell-Bannerman Ministry Liberal Government 1905-1915
1908 Herbert Henry Asquith First Asquith Ministry
1910 George V
1915 Coalition Second Asquith Ministry Coalition Government 1915-1916
1916 David Lloyd George First Lloyd George Ministry Coalition Government 1916-1922
1919 Second Lloyd George Ministry
1922 Andrew Bonar Law Conservative Bonar Law Ministry Conservative Government 1922-1924
1923 Stanley Baldwin First Baldwin Ministry
1924 Ramsay MacDonald Labour First MacDonald Ministry Labour Government 1924
1924 Stanley Baldwin Conservative Second Baldwin Ministry Conservative Government 1924-1929
1929 Ramsay MacDonald Labour Second MacDonald Ministry Labour Government 1929-1931
1931 National First National Ministry National Government 1931-1935
1931 Second National Ministry
1935 Stanley Baldwin Third National Ministry National Government 1935-1940
1936 Edward VIII
1936 George VI
1937 Neville Chamberlain Fourth National Ministry
1939 Chamberlain War Ministry
1940 Winston Churchill Coalition Churchill War Ministry Coalition Government 1940-1945
1945 National Churchill Caretaker Ministry Caretaker Government 1945
1945 Clement Attlee Labour Attlee Ministry Labour Government 1945-1951
1951 Sir Winston Churchill Conservative Third Churchill Ministry Conservative Government 1951-1957
1952 Elizabeth II
1955 Sir Anthony Eden Eden Ministry
1957 Harold Macmillan Macmillan Ministry Conservative Government 1957-1964
1963 Sir Alec Douglas-Home Douglas-Home Ministry
1964 Harold Wilson Labour First Wilson Ministry Labour Government 1964-1970
1970 Edward Heath Conservative Heath Ministry Conservative Government 1970-1974
1974 Harold Wilson Labour Second Wilson Ministry Labour Government 1974-1979
1976 James Callaghan Callaghan Ministry
1979 Margaret Thatcher Conservative Thatcher Ministry Conservative Government 1979-1990
1990 John Major Major Ministry Conservative Government 1990-1997
1997 Tony Blair Labour Blair Ministry Labour Government 1997-2007
2007 Gordon Brown Brown Ministry Labour Government 2007-present