United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:08, 2 October 2025

Name changed to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927

Ruling Houses
House of Hanover
1801-1901
House of Windsor
1901-2022
House of Mountbatten-Windsor
2022-

Constituent Countries
Scotland
England
Wales
Since 1998
Ireland
Until 1921
Northern Ireland
Since 1921

Crown dependencies
Bailiwick of Guernsey
Bailiwick of Jersey
Isle of Mann

Overseas Territories and Colonies
Anguilla
Dominion of Australia
Nominally until 1986
British Indian Ocean Territory
Dominion of Canada
Nominally until 1982
Gibraltar
Colony of Jamaica
Until 1962
Colony of Malta
Until 1964
Dominion of New Zealand
Nominally until 1986
Dominion of Newfoundland
Until 1949
Crown Colony of Sarawak
1946–1963
Dominion of South Africa
Nominally until 1961
Federal Colony of the Windward Islands
Until 1958

Prime Ministers
Robert Walpole
1721–1742
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
1742–1743
Henry Pelham
1743–1754
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
1754–1756 and 1757–1762
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
1756–1757
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
1762–1763
George Grenville
1763–1765
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
1766-1768
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
1768–1770
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
1770–1782
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
1782
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
1782-1783
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
1783 and 1807–1809
William Pitt the Younger
1783–1801 and 1804–1806
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
1801–1804
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1806-1807
Spencer Perceval
1809–1812
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
1812–1827
George Canning
1827
Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
1827-1828
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1828–1830 and 1834
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
1830–1834
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
1834 and 1835–1841
Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet
1834–1835 and 1841–1846
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1846–1852 and 1865–1866
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1852, 1858–1859 and 1866–1868
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
1852–1855
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
1855–1858 and 1859–1865
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
1868 and 1874–1880
William Ewart Gladstone
1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892-1894
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1902
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1894–1895
Arthur Balfour
1902–1905
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1905–1908
Herbert Henry Asquith
1908–1916
David Lloyd George
1916–1922
Bonar Law
1922–1923
Stanley Baldwin
1923–1924, 1924–1929 and 1935–1937
Ramsay MacDonald
1924 and 1929–1935
Neville Chamberlain
1937–1940
Winston Churchill
1940–1945 and 1951–1955
Clement Attlee
1945–1951
Anthony Eden
1955–1957
Harold MacMillan
1957–1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
1963–1964
Harold Wilson
1964–1970 and 1974–1976
Edward Heath
1970–1974
James Callaghan
1976–1979
Margaret Thatcher
1979–1990
John Major
1990–1997
Tony Blair
1997–2007
Gordon Brown
2007–2010
David Cameron
2010–2016
Theresa May
2016–2019
The arms of Philip John May, borne by Theresa May de jure matrimonii
Boris Johnson
2019–2022
Liz Truss
2022–2022
Rishi Sunak
2022–2024
Keir Starmer
2024–

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+Name changed to ''United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'' in 1927
 <gallery caption="Ruling Houses" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
-George III.svg|[[House of Welf|House of Hanover]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1801-1901</span>
+Hanover United Kingdom.svg|[[House of Hanover]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1801-1901</span>
-Queen Victoria.svg|[[House of Wettin|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1901-1917</span>
+Queen Victoria.svg|[[House of Windsor]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1901-2022</span>
-Queen Victoria.svg|[[House of Wettin|House of Windsor]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1917-</span><br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Name changed from Saxe-Coburg Gotha in 1917 due to Anti-German sentiment</span>
+Elizabeth II.svg|[[House of Mountbatten-Windsor]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2022-</span>
 </gallery>
+<gallery caption="Constituent Countries" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
+Dunkeld.svg|[[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]]
+Plantagenet.svg|[[Kingdom of England|England]]
+Wales.svg|[[Principality of Wales|Wales]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Since 1998</span>
+Kingdom of Ireland.svg|[[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Until 1921</span>
+Northern Ireland.svg|[[Kingdom of Ireland|Northern Ireland]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Since 1921</span>
+</gallery>
+<gallery caption="Crown dependencies" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
+File:Plantagenet.svg|Bailiwick of Guernsey
+File:Plantagenet.svg|Bailiwick of Jersey
+File:Mann.svg|Isle of Mann
+</gallery>
+<gallery caption="Overseas Territories and Colonies" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
+Anguilla 1990.svg|Anguilla</span>
+Australia 1908.svg|[[Commonwealth of Australia|Dominion of Australia]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Nominally until 1986</span>
+BIOT.svg|British Indian Ocean Territory</span>
+Canada 1868.svg|[[Canada|Dominion of Canada]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Nominally until 1982</span>
+Gibraltar 1502.svg|[[Gibraltar]]
+Jamaica.svg|Colony of Jamaica<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Until 1962</span>
+Malta 1875.svg|[[Republic of Malta|Colony of Malta]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Until 1964</span>
+Blank.svg|[[New Zealand|Dominion of New Zealand]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Nominally until 1986</span>
+Blank.svg|Dominion of Newfoundland<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Until 1949</span>
+Colony of Sarawak.svg|Crown Colony of Sarawak<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1946–1963</span>
+Blank.svg|[[Republic of South Africa|Dominion of South Africa]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Nominally until 1961</span>
+British Windward Islands.svg|[[British Windward Islands|Federal Colony of the Windward Islands]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Until 1958</span>
+</gallery >
+<gallery caption="Prime Ministers" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;">
+Walpole.svg|Robert Walpole<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1721–1742</span>
+Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington.svg|Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1742–1743</span>
+Pelham.svg|Henry Pelham<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1743–1754</span>
+Pelham-Holles.svg|Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1754–1756 and 1757–1762</span>
+Cavendish.svg|William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1756–1757</span>
+Stuart of Bute.svg|John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1762–1763</span>
+Grenville Wotton.svg|George Grenville<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1763–1765</span>
+Pitt Chatham.svg|William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1766-1768</span>
+FitzRoy of Grafton.svg|Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1768–1770</span>
+North Guilford.svg|Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1770–1782</span>
+Watson-Wentworth.svg|Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1782</span>
+Petty-FitzMaurice.svg|William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1782-1783</span>
+Cavendish-Bentinck Portland.svg|William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1783 and 1807–1809</span>
+William Pitt the Younger.svg|William Pitt the Younger<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1783–1801 and 1804–1806</span>
+Addington.svg|Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1801–1804</span>
+William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville.svg|William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1806-1807</span><!-- Son of George Grenville above -->
+Perceval.svg|Spencer Perceval<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1809–1812</span>
+Blank.svg|Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1812–1827</span>
+Canning.svg|George Canning<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1827</span>
+Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon.svg|Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1827-1828</span>
+Wellesley Wellington.svg|Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1828–1830 and 1834</span>
+Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.svg|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1830–1834</span>
+Lamb.svg|William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1834 and 1835–1841</span>
+Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet.svg|Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1834–1835 and 1841–1846</span>
+John Russell, 1st Earl Russell.svg|John Russell, 1st Earl Russell<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1846–1852 and 1865–1866</span>
+Stanley.svg|Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1852, 1858–1859 and 1866–1868</span>
+Gordon-Hamilton.svg|George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1852–1855</span>
+Temple Palmerston.svg|Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1855–1858 and 1859–1865</span>
+Benjamin Disraeli.svg|Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1868 and 1874–1880</span>
+Blank.svg|William Ewart Gladstone<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892-1894</span>
+Cecil Salisbury.svg|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1902</span>
+Primrose Rosebery.svg|Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1894–1895</span>
+Balfour Whittingehame.svg|Arthur Balfour<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1902–1905</span>
+Henry Campbell-Bannerman.svg|Henry Campbell-Bannerman<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1905–1908</span>
+Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith.svg|Herbert Henry Asquith<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1908–1916</span>
+Blank.svg|David Lloyd George<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1916–1922</span>
+Andrew Bonar Law.svg|Bonar Law<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1922–1923</span>
+Stanley Baldwin.svg|Stanley Baldwin<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1923–1924, 1924–1929 and 1935–1937</span>
+Blank.svg|Ramsay MacDonald<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1924 and 1929–1935</span>
+Arthur Neville Chamberlain.svg|Neville Chamberlain<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1937–1940</span>
+George Spencer-Churchill.svg|Winston Churchill<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1940–1945 and 1951–1955</span>
+Attlee.svg|Clement Attlee<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1945–1951</span>
+Eden.svg|Anthony Eden<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1955–1957</span>
+Harold Macmillan.svg|Harold MacMillan<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1957–1963</span>
+Douglas-Home.svg|Sir Alec Douglas-Home<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1963–1964</span>
+Harold Wilson.svg|Harold Wilson<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1964–1970 and 1974–1976</span>
+Edward Heath.svg|Edward Heath<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1970–1974</span>
+Blank.svg|James Callaghan<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1976–1979</span>
+File:Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.svg|Margaret Thatcher<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1979–1990</span>
+File:John Major.svg|John Major<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1990–1997</span>
+File:Tony Blair.svg|Tony Blair<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">1997–2007</span>
+Blank.svg|Gordon Brown<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2007–2010</span>
+Blank.svg|David Cameron<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2010–2016</span>
+Philip John May.svg|Theresa May<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2016–2019</span><br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">The arms of Philip John May, borne by Theresa May ''de jure matrimonii''</span>
+Blank.svg|Boris Johnson<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2019–2022</span>
+Blank.svg|Liz Truss<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2022–2022</span>
+Blank.svg|Rishi Sunak<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2022–2024</span>
+Blank.svg|Keir Starmer<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">2024–</span>
+</gallery >