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Prime Minister of Great Britain

Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

10Records
1865–1908Date range
6Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1865

John Russell Kingston, 1st29 October 1865

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term

Russell of Kingston, 1st29 October 1865

Government / Liberal Party Government

Sits in the Lords while Gladstone leads the Government in the Commons

1868

William Ewart Gladstone3 December 1868

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

1880

William Ewart Gladstone23 April 1880

Government / Liberal Party Government

Queen Victoria asks Lord Hartington to form a ministry, but he persuades her to send for Gladstone. Appointed Prime Minister, 2nd term

1886

William Ewart Gladstone1 February 1886

Government / Liberal Party Government

Chamberlain, hostile to Irish home rule, refuses to serve in the Cabinet. Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 3rd term

1892

William Ewart Gladstone15 August 1892

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 4th term

1894

Primrose Rosebery, 5th1894

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain

1905

Henry Campbell-Bannerman5 December 1905

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

Henry Campbell-Bannerman9 December 1905

Government / Liberal Party Government

Offers to make Churchill Financial Secretary under Asquith, Churchill refuses

1908

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st7 April 1908

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

Names involved

Henry Campbell-BannermanHenry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1stJohn Russell Kingston, 1stPrimrose Rosebery, 5thRussell of Kingston, 1stWilliam Ewart Gladstone

Provenance

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