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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 ...
Current Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, having been knighted in 2014 before entering office. The only prime minister to have received a British gallantry award was Anthony Eden, who won the Military Cross (MC) while serving in the army in the First World War, before entering parliament. [5] [6]
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet.. There is no specific date for when the office of prime minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over time through a merger of duties. [1]
Gladstone left office in March 1894, aged 84, as both the oldest person to serve as prime minister and the only prime minister to have served four non-consecutive terms. He left Parliament in 1895 and died three years later.
Prime Minister of Laos: 1991–1998 8 February 1924: 101 years, 15 days Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party: 1992–2006 President of Laos: 1998–2006 3: Tomiichi Murayama: Prime Minister of Japan: 1994–1996 3 March 1924: 100 years, 357 days 4: Mahathir Mohamad: Prime Minister of Malaysia: 1981–2003; 2018–2020
This article lists the 100 oldest living current or former state leaders whose age can be demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. State leaders are defined to include heads of state (including representatives who act in their stead, generally a governor-general), heads of government and internationally recognized de facto leaders [I] of sovereign states with significant international recognition.
Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote that in 1713 there had been "those who are now commonly called Prime Minister among us", referring to Sidney Godolphin and Robert Harley, Queen Anne's lord treasurers and chief ministers. [2] Robert Walpole is regarded as the first prime minister; he became First Lord of the Treasury of Great Britain in 1721.
Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates: Constitutional monarchy 11 February 2006 19 years, 6 days Viktor Orbán: Prime Minister of Hungary: Parliamentary republic 29 May 2010 14 years, 264 days Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed: Prime Minister of Djibouti: Presidential republic: 1 April 2013 11 years, 322 days Edi Rama: Prime Minister of Albania