Prime Ministers - connections and relations of Swetenham-16

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Based on Prime Ministers of England and Great Britain by Linda Davison

This page lists connections and relationships of Prime Ministers to Richard Swetenham in chronological order - many of these can also be found on Connections to Swetenham-16 - by degrees of separation.

The closest connection is Lord John Russell 34 (9 degrees), followed by Lord Aberdeen 36 (10 degrees), followed by Earl Grey 27 . through Bulteel Archer - and Lord Rosebery 42, Lord Salisbury 46, 48 and 51, Winston Churchill 63 and 65, Harold Macmillan 67 and Alec Douglas-Home 68 (11 degrees) - through Anson in seven cases. The Anson connection and Hamilton-Anson connection are flagged Anson (5) and HA (18).

The closest cousins are Spencer Compton 2 (3c9, common ancestor Anthony Beaumont), William Pitt the Elder 10 (4c7, common ancestor George Villiers) and his predecessor, Lord Rockingham 9 (4c7, common ancestor Edmund Bell MP). All Prime Ministers for the period 1721 - 1908 are cousins, except Henry Addington 17, Robert Peel 31 and 33 and Benjamin Disraeli 42 and 44, as are Winston Churchill 63 and 65, Anthony Eden 66, Alec Douglas Home 68 and David Cameron 77. Cousins are marked e. g. 5c7 fifth cousin seven times removed.

• 1 Robert Walpole (1676-1745) First Lord of the Treasury 1721-1742 14 degrees HA 5c7
• 2 Spencer Compton (abt.1674-1743) Prime Minister 1742-1743 14 degrees Fielding 3c9
• 3. Henry Pelham (1694-1754) Prime Minister 1743-1754 12 degrees Wandesford 5c6
• 4. Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768) Prime Minister 1754-1756 12 degrees Wandesford 5c6 - see 6
• 5. 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720-1764) Prime Minister 1756-1757 14 degrees 8c5 HA
• 6. Duke of Newcastle PM 1757–62; 2nd term - see 4
• 7. Lord Bute (1713-1792) Prime Minister 1762–63 12 degrees 5c6 Anson
• 8. George Grenville (1712-1770) Prime Minister 1763-1765 12 degrees 6c7 Sneyd
• 9. Lord Rockingham (1730-1782) Prime Minister 1765-1766, 1782 15 degrees 4c7 1st term - see 13 Anson
• 10. William Pitt the Elder (1708-1778) Prime Minister 1766-1768 14 degrees 4c7 Sneyd
• 11. Duke of Grafton (1735-1811) Prime Minister 1768–1770 12 degrees 6c5 Wrottesley Archer
• 12. Lord North (1732-1792) Prime Minister 1770-1782 14 degrees 7c4 Wandesford
• 13. Lord Rockingham PM 1782; 2nd term - see 9
• 14. Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805) Prime Minister 1782-1783 12 degrees 12c6 HA
• 15. 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809) Prime Minister 1783, 1807–1809 13 degrees 5c6 - see 20 HA
• 16. William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) Prime Minister 1783-1801, 1804-1806 14 degrees 5c6 - see 18 HA
• 17. Henry Addington (bef.1757-1844) Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804 16 degrees Anson
• 18. William Pitt the Younger PM 1804–1806; 2nd term - see 16
• 19. Lord Grenville (1759-1834) Prime Minister 1806-1807 12 degrees 7c4 Sneyd
• 20. Duke of Portland PM 1807–09; 2nd term - see 15
• 21. Spencer Perceval (bef.1762-1812) Prime Minister 1809-1812 assassinated in the Lobby of the House of Commons 11 degrees Money Hume 6c4
• 22. Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) Prime Minister 1812–27 14 degrees 10c7 HA
• 23. George Canning (1770-1827) Prime Minister 1827 13 degrees 9c6 HA
• 24. Viscount Goderich (1782-1859) PM for 144 days 1827–28 15 degrees 6c5 Antrobus
• 25. 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) general, Prime Minister 1828-1830, 1834-1834 13 degrees 8c5 - see 30 Anson
• 27. Earl Grey (1764-1845) Prime Minister 1830–34 11 degrees Bulteel Archer 10c5
• 29. Lord Melbourne (1779-1848) Prime Minister 1834,1835–1841 14 degrees Bulteel Archer 11c3 - see 32
• 30. Duke of Wellington PM 1834; 2nd term - see 25
• 31. Robert Peel (1788-1850) Prime Minister 1834–1835, 1841–1846 13 degrees - see 33 Anson
• 32. Lord Melbourne PM 1835–41; 2nd term - see 29
• 33. Robert Peel PM 1841–46; 2nd term - see 35
• 34. Lord John Russell (1792-1878) Prime Minister 1846-1852, 1865-1866 9 degrees 6c3 - see 40 HA
• 35. Lord Derby (1799-1869) Prime Minister 1852, 1858-1859,1866-1868 13 degrees 7c3 - see 38, 41 Cunliffe
• 36. Lord Aberdeen (1784-1860) Prime Minister 1852-1855 10 degrees 6c4 HA
• 37. Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) Prime Minister 1855–58, 1859–65 14 degrees 16c6 - see 39 Anson
• 38. Lord Derby PM 1858–59; 2nd term - see 35 and 41
• 39. Lord Palmerston PM 1859–65; 2nd term - see 37
• 40. Lord John Russell PM 1865–66; 2nd term - see 34
• 41. Lord Derby PM 1866–68; 3rd term - see 35 and 38
• 42. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) P.M 1868, 1874-1880 - see 44 17 degrees HA
• 43. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) Prime Minister 1868-1874,1880-1885,1886-1886,1892-1894 13 degrees 12c6 - see 45, 47 and 49 Plowden Liston
• 44. Benjamin Disraeli PM 1874–80; 2nd term - see 42
• 45. William Ewart Gladstone PM 1880–85; 2nd term - see 43, 47 and 49
• 46. Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) Prime Minister 1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902 11 degrees 7c4 - see 48 and 51 HA
• 47. William Ewart Gladstone PM 1886; 3rd term - see 43, 45 and 49
• 48. Lord Salisbury PM 1886–92; 2nd term - see 46 and 51
• 49. William Ewart Gladstone PM 1892–94; 4th term - see 43, 45 and 47
• 50. 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929) Prime Minister 1894-1895 11 degrees 9c2 Anson
• 51. Lord Salisbury PM 1895–1902; 3rd term - see 46 and 48
• 52. Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) Prime Minister 1902-1905 13 degrees 8c3 Anson
• 53. Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908) Prime Minister 1905-1908 16 degrees 14c4 Money Hume
• 54. H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) Prime Minister 1908-1916 12 degrees
• 55. David Lloyd George (1863-1945) PM 1916–1922 19 degrees HA
• 56. Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923) PM 1922-23 19 degrees Anson
• 57. Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) PM 1923–1924; 1st term - see 59 and 61 16 degrees HA
• 58. Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) PM 1924; 1st term 19 degrees - see 60 Hewetson Archer
• 59. Stanley Baldwin PM 1924–1929; 2nd term - see 57 and 61
• 60. Ramsay Macdonald PM 1929–1935; 2nd term - see 58
• 61. Stanley Baldwin PM 1935–1937; 3rd term - see 57 and 59
• 62. Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) Prime Minister 1937-1940 16 degrees HA
• 63. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister 1940-1945,1951-1955 11 degrees 9c - see 65 HA
• 64. Clement Attlee (1883-1967) Prime Minister 1945–1951 18 degrees HA
• 65. Winston Churchill 1951–1955; 2nd term - see 63
• 66. Anthony Eden (1897-1977) Prime Minister 1955-1957, Foreign Secretary 13 degrees 10c1 Plowden Liston
• 67. Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) Prime Minister 1957-1963 11 degrees His wife Dorothy 9c HA
• 68. Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995) Prime Minister 1963-1964 11 degrees 9c1 Bulteel Archer
• 69. Harold Wilson (1916-1995) Prime Minister 1964–1970; 1st term - see 71 26 degrees
• 70. Ted Heath (1916-2005) Prime Minister 1970–1974 26 degrees
• 71. Harold Wilson PM 1974–1976; 2nd term - see 69
• 72. James Callaghan (1912-2005) Prime Minister 1976–1979 30 degrees
• 73. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) Prime Minister 1979–1990 20 degrees HA
• 74. John Major Prime Minister 1990-1997 29 degrees
• 75. Tony Blair Prime Minister 1997–2007 21 degrees
• 76. Gordon Brown Prime Minister 2007–2010 28 degrees
• 77. David Cameron Prime Minister 2010-2016 16 degrees 9c1
• 78. Theresa May Prime Minister 2016-2019 26 degrees
• 79. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel “Boris” Johnson (1964 - ) P.M (2019– )