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List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by birthplace
This list give the names of British prime ministers by their birthplace.[1][2]
46 of the past 58 prime ministers were born in England, including the incumbent Keir Starmer. Of them, nineteen were born in Central London, most recently Keir Starmer (2024–present). The rest were born in Scotland (7), Republic of Ireland (2), Canada (1), and United States (1). The most recent prime minister born in Scotland was Gordon Brown (2007–2010).
David Lloyd George was Welsh and a first-language Welsh speaker, but was born in England. No prime minister has ever been born in Northern Ireland, Wales, or South West England.
Four prime ministers were born outside the modern United Kingdom, the most recent being Boris Johnson (2019–2022).
List
| Name
|
Term
|
Birthplace
|
Country
|
| Robert Walpole
|
1721 to 1742
|
Houghton Hall, Norfolk
|
 England
|
| Spencer Compton
|
1742 to 1743
|
Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire
|
England
|
| Henry Pelham
|
1743 to 1756
|
Laughton, Sussex
|
England
|
| Thomas Pelham-Holles
|
1754 to 1756
1757 to 1762
|
London
|
England
|
| William Cavendish
|
1756 to 1757
|
Hardwicke, Stroud
|
England
|
| John Stuart
|
1762 to 1763
|
Parliament Square, Edinburgh
|
 Scotland
|
| George Grenville
|
1763 to 1765
|
Wotton, Buckinghamshire
|
England
|
| Charles Watson-Wentworth
|
1782 to 1782, 1765 to 1766
|
Wentworth, South Yorkshire
|
England
|
| William Pitt
|
1766 to 1768
|
Westminster, London
|
England
|
| Augustus FitzRoy
|
1768 to 1770
|
London
|
England
|
| Frederick North
|
1770 to 1782
|
Piccadilly, London
|
England
|
| William Petty
|
1782 to 1783
|
Dublin, County Dublin
|
 Kingdom of Ireland, modern day  Republic of Ireland
|
| Henry Addington
|
1801 to 1804
|
Holborn, London
|
England
|
| William Pitt
|
1783 to 1801
1804 to 1806
|
Hayes, Kent
|
England
|
| William Grenville
|
1806 to 1807
|
Wotton, Buckinghamshire
|
England
|
| William Cavendish-Bentinck
|
1783
1807 to 1809
|
Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire
|
England
|
| Spencer Perceval
|
1809 to 1812
|
Mayfair, London
|
England
|
| Robert Jenkinson
|
1812 to 1827
|
London
|
England
|
| George Canning
|
1827
|
Marylebone, London
|
England
|
| Frederick Robinson
|
1827 to 1828
|
Skelton-on-Ure, Yorkshire
|
England
|
| Arthur Wellesley
|
1828 to 1830
1834
|
Dublin, County Dublin
|
Kingdom of Ireland, modern day Republic of Ireland
|
| Charles Grey
|
1830 to 1834
|
Fallodon, Northumberland
|
England
|
| William Lamb
|
1834
1835 to 1841
|
London
|
England
|
| Robert Peel
|
1834 to 1835
1841 to 1846
|
Bury, Lancashire
|
England
|
| George Hamilton Gordon
|
1852 to 1855
|
Edinburgh, Midlothian
|
Scotland
|
| Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston
|
1859 to 1865
1855 to 1858
|
Westminster, Middlesex
|
England
|
| John Russell
|
1865 to 1866
1846 to 1852
|
Mayfair, Middlesex
|
England
|
| Edward Smith-Stanley
|
1866 to 1868
1858 to 1859
1852
|
Knowsley Hall, Knowsley, Lancashire
|
England
|
| Benjamin Disraeli
|
1874 to 1880
1868 to 1868
|
Bloomsbury, Middlesex
|
England
|
| William Ewart Gladstone
|
1868 to 1874
1880 to 1885
1886 to 1886
1892 to 1894
|
Liverpool, Lancashire
|
England
|
| Archibald Primrose
|
1894 to 1895
|
Mayfair, Middlesex
|
England
|
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
|
1885 to 1886
1886 to 1892
1895 to 1902
|
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
|
England
|
| Arthur Balfour
|
1902 to 1905
|
Whittingehame, East Lothian
|
Scotland
|
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman
|
1905 to 1908
|
Kelvinside, Glasgow
|
Scotland
|
| H. H. Asquith
|
1908 to 1916
|
Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire
|
England
|
| David Lloyd George
|
1916 to 1922
|
Chorlton-on-Medlock, Lancashire,
|
England
|
| Bonar Law
|
1922 to 1923
|
Rexton, Kent County
|
 New Brunswick colony, modern day  Canada
|
| Ramsay MacDonald
|
1924
1929 to 1935
|
Lossiemouth, Morayshire
|
Scotland
|
| Stanley Baldwin
|
1924 to 1929
1935 to 1937
|
Bewdley, Worcestershire
|
England
|
| Neville Chamberlain
|
1937 to 1940
|
Edgbaston, Birmingham
|
England
|
| Winston Churchill
|
1940 to 1945
1951 to 1955
|
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
|
England
|
| Clement Attlee
|
1945 to 1951
|
Putney, Surrey
|
England
|
| Anthony Eden
|
1955 to 1957
|
Windlestone Hall, County Durham
|
England
|
| Harold Macmillan
|
1957 to 1963
|
Belgravia, London
|
England
|
| Alec Douglas-Home
|
1963 to 1964
|
Mayfair, London
|
England
|
| Harold Wilson
|
1964 to 1970
1974 to 1976
|
Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire
|
England
|
| Edward Heath
|
1970 to 1974
|
Broadstairs, Kent
|
England
|
| James Callaghan
|
1976 to 1979
|
Portsmouth, Hampshire
|
England
|
| Margaret Thatcher
|
1979 to 1990
|
Grantham, Lincolnshire
|
England
|
| John Major
|
1990 to 1997
|
St Helier, Surrey
|
England
|
| Tony Blair
|
1997 to 2007
|
Edinburgh, Midlothian
|
Scotland
|
| Gordon Brown
|
2007 to 2010
|
Giffnock, Renfrewshire
|
Scotland
|
| David Cameron
|
2010 to 2016
|
Marylebone, London
|
England
|
| Theresa May
|
2016 to 2019
|
Eastbourne, East Sussex
|
England
|
| Boris Johnson
|
2019 to 2022
|
New York City, New York
|
 United States
|
| Liz Truss
|
2022
|
Oxford, Oxfordshire
|
England
|
| Rishi Sunak
|
2022 to 2024
|
Southampton, Hampshire
|
England
|
| Keir Starmer
|
2024 to present
|
Southwark, London
|
England
|
References
3. "AP HUGH, Owen (1518-1613), of Bodeon, nr. Llangadwaladr, Anglesey". Retrieved 24 January 2016. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ap-hugh-owen-1518-1613 )
See also
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