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The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Andrew Bonar Law, [10] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister.
Hussein Maziq, Prime minister (1965–1967) Abdul Qadir al-Badri, Prime minister (1967) Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush, Prime minister (1967–1968) Wanis al-Qaddafi, Prime minister (1968–1969) Libyan Arab Republic / Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Heads of state and Secretaries-General (complete list) – Muammar Gaddafi,
8 October – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1893) 9 October – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897) 13 November – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (born 1895) 4 December – Daniel Jones, British phonetician (born 1881) 26 December – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (born 1873)
This is a list of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age. This table can be sorted to display prime ministers of the United Kingdom by name, order of office, date of birth, age at appointment, length of retirement, or lifespan. Age at appointment is determined by the day a prime minister assumed office for the first time. Length of retirement is determined from the day a prime minister ...
Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom. There have been three female prime ministers, all Conservative. They have led the United Kingdom for a total of 14 years, 268 days. Margaret Thatcher – served May 1979 – November 1990, 11 years, 208 days. Theresa May – served July 2016 – July 2019, 3 years, 11 days.
Elizabeth had 179 N1 individuals serve as her realms' prime ministers throughout her reign, the first new appointment being Dudley Senanayake as Prime Minister of Ceylon and the final being Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, whom she appointed only two days before her death; some of these individuals served multiple non ...
January 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky forces his rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, into exile while overseas on a diplomatic visit. [4] January 26. The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry.
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff (/ ˈ k æ l ə h æ n / ⓘ KAL-ə-han; 27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), commonly known as Jim Callaghan, was a British statesman [1] and Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980.