UK/Prime Minister/List

"PM	Dates	University, College
Walpole, Robert	1721-1742	Cambridge, King's
Wilmington, Earl of	1742-1743	Oxford, Trinity
Pelham, Henry	1743-1746	Oxford, Hart Hall
Bath, Earl of	1746	Oxford, Christ Church
Newcastle, Duke of	1754-1756 1757-1762	Cambridge, Clare
Devonshire, 4th Duke of	1756-1757	N/A
Bute, 3rd Earl of	1762-1763	Leiden, Netherlands
Grenville, George	1763-1765	Oxford, Christ Church
Rockingham, Marquess of	1765-1766 1782	Cambridge, St John's
Chatham, Earl of	1766-1768	Oxford, Trinity
Grafton, Duke of	1768-1770	Cambridge, Peterhouse
North, Lord	1770-1782	Oxford, Trinity
Rockingham, 2nd Marquis of	1782-1782	N/A
Shelburne, Earl of	1782-1783	Oxford, Christ Church
Portland, Duke of	1783 1807-1809	Oxford, Christ Church
Pitt, William	1783-1801 1804-1806	Cambridge, Pembroke
Addington, Henry	1801-1804	Oxford, Brasenose
Grenville, Baron	1806-1807	Oxford, Christ Church
Perceval, Spencer	1809-1812	Cambridge, Trinity
Liverpool, Earl of	1812-1827	Oxford, Christ Church
Canning, George	1827	Oxford, Christ Church
Goderich, Viscount	1827-1828	Cambridge, St John's
Grey, Earl	1830-1834	Cambridge, Trinity
Melbourne, Viscount	1834	Cambridge, Trinity
Peel, Robert	1841-1846	Oxford, Christ Church
Russell, 1st Earl	1846-1852	Edinburgh
Derby, Earl of	1852-1852 1858-1859 1866-1868	Oxford, Christ Church
Aberdeen, Earl of	1852-1855	Cambridge, St John's
Palmerston, Viscount	1855-1858 1859-1865	Cambridge, St John's
Gladstone, William	1868-1874 1880-1885 1886 1892-1894	Oxford, Christ Church
Salisbury, Marquess of	1885-1886 1886-1892 1895-1902	Oxford, Christ Church
Rosebery, Earl of	1894-1895	Oxford, Christ Church
Balfour, Arthur	1902-1905	Cambridge, Trinity
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry	1905-1908	Cambridge, Trinity
Asquith, Herbert	1908-1916	Oxford, Balliol
Lloyd George, David	1916-1922	N/A
Bonar Law, Andrew	1922-1923	N/A
Baldwin, Stanley	1923-1924 1924-1929 1935-1937	Cambridge, Trinity
MacDonald, Ramsey	1924-1924 1931-1935	N/A
Chamerlain, Neville	1937-1939 1939-1940	Birmingham, Masons Science
Churchill, Winston	1945-1945 1951-1955	N/A
Atlee, Clement	1945-1951	Oxford, University
Eden, Anthony	1955-1957	Oxford, Christ Church
Macmillan, Harold	1957-1963	Oxford, Balliol
Douglas-Home, Alec	1963-1964	Oxford, Christ Church
Wilson, Harold	1964-1970 1974-1976	Oxford, Jesus
Heath, Edward	1970-1974	Oxford, Balliol
Callaghan, James	1976-1979	N/A
Thatcher, Margaret	1979-1990	Oxford, Somerville
Major, John	1990-1997	N/A
Blair, Tony	1997-2007	Oxford, St John's
Brown, Gordon	2007-2010	Edinburgh
Cameron, David	2010-	Oxford, Brasenose

The 53 UK Prime Ministers to date (April 2011)

Note: The table is sortable by clicking the icon at the head of each column.

The list is dominated by OxBridge accounting for over 75% of the total.

• OxBridge - 41
  • Oxford - 27
  • Cambridge - 14
• Others - 4
  • Edinburgh - 2
  • Birmingham - 1
  • Leiden (Netherlands) - 1
• No university attendance - 8

See Also

• List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia page
• Prime Ministers in History UK - No 10 Website