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[4] [6] [7] The previous shortest time served was George Canning, who served for less than four months before dying in office. [8] Margaret Thatcher, in office for 11 years and 208 days between 1979 and 1990, is the longest-serving prime minister in modern history, [3] and the longest-serving prime minister officially referred to as such.
The prime minister who lived the longest after leaving office for the final time was the Duke of Grafton, who left office on 28 January 1770. He died on 14 March 1811, 41 years and 45 days later. In the last 100 years, the prime minister who lived the longest after leaving office was Edward Heath, whose term ended on 4 March 1974. He died on 17 ...
The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its effective creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Bonar Law, [10] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister. [11]
The longest reigning female monarch of a completely sovereign state is Elizabeth II, who was the Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms, and was a constitutional monarch. She was Queen of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, [10] for 70 years, from 6 February 1952 until her death aged 96 on 8 September 2022 ...
List of longest-serving members of the Union Council of Ministers; List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure; List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service; List of historical longest-serving members of the United States Congress; List of members of the United States Congress by brevity of service
Sunak was the first prime minister invited to form a government during the reign of King Charles III, as well as the first British Asian, first British Indian, first person of colour, and first Hindu prime minister. [78] He was also Britain’s wealthiest ever prime minister as a former hedge fund manager. [79]
Prime Minister Title State's political system Date of assumption Current length of term Hassanal Bolkiah: Prime Minister of Brunei: Absolute monarchy: 1 January 1984 40 years, 355 days Ralph Gonsalves: Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Constitutional monarchy: 29 March 2001 23 years, 267 days Roosevelt Skerrit: Prime Minister ...
This is a graphical timeline of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from when the first prime minister of Great Britain in the modern sense, Robert Walpole, took office in 1721, until the present day. From 1801 until 1922, British prime ministers also held the office for the whole of Ireland.