Year	Name	Party
1721	Sir Robert Walpole	Whig
1742	Earl of Wilmington	Whig
1743	Henry Pelham	Whig
1754	Duke of Newcastle	Whig
1756	Duke of Devonshire	Whig
1757	Duke of Newcastle	Whig
1762	Earl of Bute	Tory
1763	George Grenville	Whig
1765	Marquess of Rockingham	Whig
1766	Earl of Chatham	Whig
1767	Duke of Grafton	Whig
1770	Lord North	Tory
1782	Marquess of Rockingham	Whig
1782	Earl of Shelburne	Whig
1783	Duke of Portland	Tory
1783	William Pitt	Tory
1801	Henry Addington	Tory
1804	William Pitt	Tory
1806	Lord Grenville	Whig
1807	Duke of Portland	Tory
1809	Spencer Perceval	Tory
1812	Earl of Liverpool	Tory
1827	George Canning	Tory
1827	Viscount Goderich	Tory
1828	Duke of Wellington	Tory
1830	Earl Grey	Whig
1834	Viscount Melbourne	Whig
1834	Duke of Wellington	Tory
1834	Sir Robert Peel	Tory
1835	Viscount Melbourne	Whig
1841	Sir Robert Peel	Tory
1846	Lord John Russell	Whig
1852	Earl of Derby	Con
1852	Earl of Aberdeen	Con
1855	Viscount Palmerston	Lib
1858	Earl of Derby	Con
1858	Viscount Palmerston	Lib
1865	Earl (formerly Lord John) Russell	Lib
1866	Earl of Derby	Con
1868	Benjamin Disraeli	Con
1868	William Ewart Gladstone	Lib
1874	Benjamin Disraeli	Con
1880	William Ewart Gladstone	Lib
1885	Marquess of Salisbury	Con
1886	William Ewart Gladstone	Lib
1892	William Ewart Gladstone	Lib
1894	Earl of Rosebery	Lib
1895	Marquess of Salisbury	Con
1902	Arthur Balfour	Con
1905	Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Lib
1908	Herbert H Asquith	Lib
1916	David Lloyd George	Lib
1922	Andrew Bonar Law	Con
1923	Stanley Baldwin	Con
1924	James Ramsay MacDonald	Lab
1924	Stanley Baldwin	Con
1929	James Ramsay MacDonald	Lab
1931	James Ramsay MacDonald	Lab
1935	Stanley Baldwin	Con
1937	Neville Chamberlain	Con
1940	Winston Churchill	Con
1945	Clement Attlee	Lab
1951	Winston Churchill	Con
1955	Sir Anthony Eden	Con
1957	Harold Macmillan	Con
1963	Sir Alec Douglas-Home	Con
1964	Harold Wilson	Lab
1970	Edward Heath	Con
1974	Harold Wilson	Lab
1976	James Callaghan	Lab
1979	Margaret Thatcher	Con
1990	John Major	Con
1997	Tony Blair	Lab
2007	Gordon Brown	Lab