UK Leader of the House of Commons

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UK Leader of the House of Commons

UK GOVERNMENT OFFICE

1721 1742 Robert Walpole

1742 1743 Samuel Sandys

1743 1754 Henry Pelham

1754 1755 Thomas Robinson

1755 1756 Henry Fox

1756 1761 William Pitt the Elder

1761 1765 George Grenville

1765 1766 Henry Seymour Conway

1766 1767 Charles Townshend

1767 1782 Frederick North Lord North

1782 1782 Charles James Fox

1782 1783 Thomas Townshend

1783 1783 Charles James Fox and Frederick North

1783 1801 William Pitt the Younger

1801 1804 Henry Addington

1804 1806 William Pitt the Younger

1806 1806 Charles James Fox

1806 1807 Charles Grey Viscount Howick

1807 1812 Spencer Perceval

1812 1822 Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh

1822 1827 George Canning

1827 1828 William Huskisson

1828 1830 Robert Peel

1830 1834 John Charles Spencer Viscount Althorp

1834 1834 Lord John Russell

1834 1835 Robert Peel

1835 1841 Lord John Russell

1841 1846 Robert Peel

1846 1852 Lord John Russell

1852 1852 Benjamin Disraeli

1852 1855 Lord John Russell

1855 1858 3rd Viscount Palmerston

1858 1859 Benjamin Disraeli

1859 1865 3rd Viscount Palmerston

1865 1866 William Ewart Gladstone

1866 1868 Benjamin Disraeli

1868 1874 William Ewart Gladstone

1874 1876 Benjamin Disraeli

1876 1880 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote

1880 1885 William Ewart Gladstone

1885 1886 Sir Michael Hicks-Beach

1886 1886 William Ewart Gladstone

1886 1887 Lord Randolph Churchill

1887 1891 William Henry Smith

1891 1892 Arthur Balfour

1892 1894 William Ewart Gladstone

1894 1895 Sir William Vernon Harcourt

1895 1905 Arthur Balfour

1905 1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman

1908 1916 Herbert Henry Asquith

1916 1921 Andrew Bonar Law

1921 1922 Austen Chamberlain

1922 1923 Andrew Bonar Law

1923 1924 Stanley Baldwin

1924 1924 Ramsay MacDonald

1924 1929 Stanley Baldwin

1929 1935 Ramsay MacDonald

1935 1937 Stanley Baldwin

1937 1940 Neville Chamberlain

1940 1942 Winston Churchill

1942 1942 Stafford Cripps

1942 1945 Anthony Eden

1945 1951 Herbert Morrison

1951 1951 James Chuter Ede

1951 1955 Harry Crookshank

1955 1961 Rab Butler

1961 1963 Iain Macleod

1963 1964 Selwyn Lloyd

1964 1966 Herbert Bowden

1966 1968 Richard Crossman

1968 1970 Fred Peart

1970 1972 William Whitelaw

1972 1972 Robert Carr

1972 1974 James Prior

1974 1976 Edward Short

1976 1979 Michael Foot

1979 1981 Norman St. John-Stevas

1981 1982 Francis Pym

1982 1987 John Biffen

1987 1989 John Wakeham

1989 1990 Geoffrey Howe

1990 1992 John MacGregor

1992 1997 Tony Newton

1997 1998 Ann Taylor

1998 2001 Margaret Beckett

2001 2003 Robin Cook

2003 2003 John Reid

2003 2005 Peter Hain

2005 2006 Geoff Hoon

2006 2007 Jack Straw

2007 -- Harriet Harman

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