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Prime Minister Born Born where Governed Died Died where Buried Political party Portrait
Robert
Walpole		 1676 Houghton Hall,
New Houghton,
Norfolk		 1721-1742 1745 Arlington Street,
London		 Houghton Hall,
New Houghton,
Norfolk		 Whig Portrait
Earl of
Wilmington		 1673 Compton Wynyates House,
Compton Wynyates,
Warwickshire		 1742-1743 1743 St James Square,
London		 n/a Whig Portrait
Henry
Pelham		 1694 Laughton,
Sussex1		 1743-1754 1754 Arlington Street,
London		 All Saints, Laughton,
Sussex		 Whig Portrait
Duke of
Newcastle
1		 1693 London 1754-1756 1768

Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London

All Saints, Laughton,
Sussex		 Whig Portrait
Duke of
Devonshire		 1720 n/a 1756-1757 1764 Spa,
Belgium		 All Saints,
Derby,
Derbyshire		 Whig n/a
Duke of
Newcastle
2nd
administration		 See above 1757-1762 See above
Earl of
Bute		 1713 Parliament Square,
London 		1762-1763 1792 Grosvenor Square,
London 		Isle of Bute,
Scotland		 Tory Portrait
George
Grenville		 1712 Westminster,
London 		1763-1765 1770 Bolton Street,
London 		Wotton Church,
Buckinghamshire 		Whig Portrait
Marquess of
Rockingham		 1730 Yorkshire 1765-1766 1782 Wimbledon,
Surrey		 York Minster,
York,
Yorkshire		 Whig Portrait
Earl of
Chatham		 1708 Westminster,
London		 1766-1768 1778 Hayes Place,
Hayes,
Kent
After collapsing holding a speech in the House of Lords		 Westminster Abbey,
London 		Whig Portrait
Duke of
Grafton		 1735 n/a 1768-1770 1811 Euston Hall,
Thetford,
Suffolk		 Euston Hall,
Thetford,
Suffolk		 Whig Portrait
Lord
North		 1732 Albemarle Street,
Piccadilly,
London		 1770-1782 1792 Grosvenor Square,
London		 Wroxton,
Oxfordshire		 Tory Portrait
Marquess of
Rockingham
2nd
administration		 See above Mar-Jul 1782 See above
Earl of
Shelburne		 1737 Dublin,
Ireland		 1782-1783 1805 Lansdowne House,
Berkeley Square,
Westminster,
London		 All Saints,
High Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire 		Whig Portrait
Duke of
Portland		 1738 Nottinghamshire Apr-Dec 1783 1809 Bulstrode House,
Gerrards Cross,
Buckinghamshire 		St Marylebone,
London		 Whig Portrait
William Pitt,
the Younger
2 		1759 Hayes,
Kent 		1783-1801 1806 Bowling Green House,
Putney Heath,
Surrey 		Westminster Abbey,
London		 Tory Portrait

Notes
1. The Duke of Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, was the elder brother of his predecessor Henry Pelham.

2. William Pitt, the Younger was the son of the former Prime Minister the Earl of Chatham (also known as William Pitt, the Elder) who governed from 1766-68.

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