- Gordon Brown
Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the Labour Party since 27 June 2007. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007. - Alistair Darling
Alistair Maclean Darling (born November 28, 1953) is a British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer since June 28, 2007. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South West in Scotland. - Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. - Nigel Lawson
Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (born March 11, 1932), is a British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer between June 1983 and October 1989. His tenure in that office was longer than that of any of his predecessors since David Lloyd George (1908 to 1915), though it was surpassed by Gordon Brown in September 2003. Lawson is the father of journalist and food writer Nigella Lawson, Dominic Lawson, the former editor of "The Sunday Telegraph" and Tom Lawson, … - Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, MP, (born 2 July 1940) is a prominent Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is MP for Rushcliffe, near Nottingham. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 until 1997, and a minister throughout all 18 years of Conservative rule from 1979 to 1997. He has contested the leadership of the party three times (in 1997, 2001 and 2005), being defeated each time. - John Smith
John Smith (1655/6 - 1723) was an English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Smith's father was also called John Smith and he had a sister called Anne Smith, Lady Dashwood. He was educated St John's College, Oxford, was at the Middle Temple and was an MP from 1678. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Strickland, and had two daughters, Mary Smith and Anne Smith, Lady Grant. Smith was first appointed as Chancellor on June 2, 1699 until March 27, … - Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports. - David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain and the British Empire through the latter half of World War I and the first four years of the peace as Prime Minister, 1916-1922. - Norman Lamont
Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, PC (born 8 May 1942) is a former Conservative Party MP for Kingston-upon-Thames, England. He is best-known for his period serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1990 until 1993, and was created a life peer in 1998. - Harold MacMillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed 'Supermac', he did not use his first name and was known as Harold Macmillan before elevation to the peerage. When asked what represented the greatest challenge for a statesman, Macmillan replied: “Events, my dear boy, events”. - James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March, 1912 – 26 March, 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. Known as Jim for short (and nicknamed 'Sunny Jim' or 'Big Jim'), Callaghan is the only person to have served in the four Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. - Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 - 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws. - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister - the first and thus far only person of Jewish parentage to do so (although Disraeli was baptised in the Anglican Church at 13). - Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Pontefract and Castleford and is the Minister of State for Housing at the Communities and Local Government government department and attends Gordon Brown's Cabinet with effect from 28 June 2007. Born in Inverness, her father is Tony Cooper, former General Secretary of the Union Prospect, … - Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 - 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. - Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC (11 November 1920 - 5 January 2003) was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he went on to be President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies. - Geoffrey Howe
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (born 20 December 1926), known until 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and finally Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister. - Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC (born 30 August 1917), is a British Labour politician. He was the UK Defence Secretary in the late 1960s and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late 1970s. - Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband (born December 24, 1969, London) is a British economist and British politician. He has been chairman of the Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, which directs the UK's long-term economic planning. He was elected Labour Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North in the 2005 general election. He was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the Cabinet Office on June 28, … - Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 - 18 March 1745) was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. This position had no official recognition in law, but Walpole is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the "de facto" office due to the extent of his influence in the Cabinet. However, the term "Prime Minister" was never used officially at this time. - Nicholas Stern
Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. After attending Latymer Upper School, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his Doctor of Philosophy in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. - Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin (born May 19, 1956, Hampstead) is the British Member of Parliament for West Dorset, Chairman of the Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department. - Austen Chamberlain
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (October 16, 1863 - March 17, 1937) was a British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. - Stephen Timms
Prior to his current ministerial role, Mr Timms was appointed Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions. His portfolio in this role included the labour market, welfare reform, Jobcentre Plus, and employment programmes such as the New Deal. Stephen's first ministerial appointment was in July 1998 when he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the then Department for Social Security. - William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). He was a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli. The English statesman was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career. - Charles Townshend
Charles Townshend (August 29, 1725 - September 4, 1767), was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. He was a politician and the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey (d. 1788), daughter and heiress of Edward Harrison of Ball's Park, near Hertford, a lady who rivalled her son in brilliancy of wit and frankness of expression. - Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman. Lord Randolph was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and Frances (1822–1899), daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry and his wife Frances Anne Vane. He was the father of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill. - Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar (1557/58 - 18 April 1636) was an English judge and politician. He was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. His father was Giulio Cesare Adelmare, an Italian physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes of Cesarini. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the University of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was made a doctor of civil law. - Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, known as Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer for several years after the Second World War. - Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 - 18 January 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. - Andrew Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 - 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. - Hugh Dalton
Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC, generally known as Hugh Dalton (26 August 1887 - 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party politician, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. He was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks. He was born in Neath in Wales: his father, Canon John Neale Dalton was chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to King George V of the United Kingdom. - George Canning
George Canning (11 April 1770 - 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister. - George Grenville
George Grenville (14 October 1712 - 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was one of the few prime ministers (others include William Pitt the Younger, Sir Winston Churchill and William Gladstone) who never acceded to the peerage. Grenville was the second son of Richard Grenville and Hester Temple (later the 1st Countess Temple). - William Pitt The Younger
William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 - 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death. He is known as "William Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt the Elder, who also served as Prime Minister of Great Britain. The younger Pitt's prime ministerial tenure, which came during the reign of George III, … - Reginald McKenna
Reginald McKenna (6 July 1863 - 6 September 1943) was a Liberal British statesman. Elected at the 1895 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Monmouthshire, he served in the Liberal governments of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Herbert Henry Asquith as President of the Board of Education, First Lord of the Admiralty and Home Secretary. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in Asquith's coalition government, he opposed the introduction of conscription, … - Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December, 1902 - 8 March, 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. Butler was one of the few British politicians to have served in the three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, … - Phil Willis
George Philip Willis (born November 30 1941, Burnley) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Harrogate and Knaresborough. He was first elected in 1997, beating Norman Lamont, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in May 2007 announced his decision to step down as an MP at the next General Election. From 1999 to 2005, Willis was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Education and Skills Secretary, … - Selwyn Lloyd
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn-Lloyd, was a British Conservative politician. Lloyd was educated at Fettes and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union, and was a Liberal Parliamentary candidate in the 1929 General Election. He served as a councillor on Hoylake Urban District Council 1932-40.
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