This list give the names of British prime ministers by their birthplace.[1] [2]
45 of the past 57 prime ministers were born in England , including the incumbent Rishi Sunak . Of them, eighteen were born in Central London , most recently David Cameron (2010–2016). The rest were born in Scotland (7), Republic of Ireland (2), Canada (1), and United States (1). The most recent prime minister born in Scotland was Gordon Brown (2007–2010).
David Lloyd George was Welsh and a first-language Welsh speaker, but was born in England. No prime minister has ever been born in Northern Ireland .
Four prime ministers were born outside the modern United Kingdom, the most recent being Boris Johnson (2019–2022).
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List
Name
Term
Birthplace
Country
Robert Walpole
1721 to 1742
Houghton Hall , Norfolk
England
Spencer Compton
1742 to 1743
Compton Wynyates , Warwickshire
England
Henry Pelham
1743 to 1756
Laughton , Sussex
England
Thomas Pelham-Holles
1754 to 1756
1757 to 1762
London
England
William Cavendish
1756 to 1757
Hardwicke, Stroud
England
John Stuart
1762 to 1763
Parliament Square , Edinburgh
Scotland
George Grenville
1763 to 1765
Wotton , Buckinghamshire
England
Charles Watson-Wentworth
1782 to 1782, 1765 to 1766
Wentworth, South Yorkshire
England
William Pitt
1766 to 1768
Westminster , London
England
Augustus FitzRoy
1768 to 1770
London
England
Frederick North
1770 to 1782
Piccadilly , London
England
William Petty
1782 to 1783
Dublin , County Dublin
Kingdom of Ireland , modern day Republic of Ireland
Henry Addington
1801 to 1804
Holborn , London
England
William Pitt
1783 to 1801
1804 to 1806
Hayes , Kent
England
William Grenville
1806 to 1807
Wotton , Buckinghamshire
England
William Cavendish-Bentinck
1783
1807 to 1809
Bulstrode Park , Buckinghamshire
England
Spencer Perceval
1809 to 1812
Mayfair , London
England
Robert Jenkinson
1812 to 1827
London
England
George Canning
1827
Marylebone , London
England
Frederick Robinson
1827 to 1828
Skelton-on-Ure , Yorkshire
England
Arthur Wellesley
1828 to 1830
1834
Dublin , County Dublin
Kingdom of Ireland , modern day Republic of Ireland
William Lamb
1834
1835 to 1841
London
England
Robert Peel
1834 to 1835
1841 to 1846
Bury , Lancashire
England
George Hamilton Gordon
1852 to 1855
Edinburgh , Midlothian
Scotland
Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston
1859 to 1865
1855 to 1858
Westminster , Middlesex
England
John Russell
1865 to 1866
1846 to 1852
Mayfair , Middlesex
England
Edward Smith-Stanley
1866 to 1868
1858 to 1859
1852
Knowsley Hall , Knowsley, Lancashire
England
Benjamin Disraeli
1874 to 1880
1868 to 1868
Bloomsbury , Middlesex
England
William Ewart Gladstone
1868 to 1874
1880 to 1885
1886 to 1886
1892 to 1894
Liverpool , Lancashire
England
Archibald Primrose
1894 to 1895
Mayfair , Middlesex
England
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
1885 to 1886
1886 to 1892
1895 to 1902
Hatfield , Hertfordshire
England
Arthur Balfour
1902 to 1905
Whittingehame , East Lothian
Scotland
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1905 to 1908
Kelvinside , Glasgow
Scotland
H. H. Asquith
1908 to 1916
Morley , West Riding of Yorkshire
England
David Lloyd George
1916 to 1922
Chorlton-on-Medlock , Lancashire ,
England
Bonar Law
1922 to 1923
Rexton , Kent County
New Brunswick colony, modern day Canada
Ramsay MacDonald
1924
1929 to 1935
Lossiemouth , Morayshire
Scotland
Stanley Baldwin
1924 to 1929
1935 to 1937
Bewdley , Worcestershire
England
Neville Chamberlain
1937 to 1940
Edgbaston , Birmingham
England
Winston Churchill
1940 to 1945
1951 to 1955
Blenheim Palace , Oxfordshire
England
Clement Attlee
1945 to 1951
Putney , Surrey
England
Anthony Eden
1955 to 1957
Windlestone Hall , County Durham
England
Harold Macmillan
1957 to 1963
Belgravia , London
England
Alec Douglas-Home
1963 to 1964
Mayfair , London
England
Harold Wilson
1964 to 1970
1974 to 1976
Huddersfield , West Riding of Yorkshire
England
Edward Heath
1970 to 1974
Broadstairs , Kent
England
James Callaghan
1976 to 1979
Portsmouth , Hampshire
England
Margaret Thatcher
1979 to 1990
Grantham , Lincolnshire
England
John Major
1990 to 1997
St Helier , Surrey
England
Tony Blair
1997 to 2007
Edinburgh , Midlothian
Scotland
Gordon Brown
2007 to 2010
Giffnock , Renfrewshire
Scotland
David Cameron
2010 to 2016
Marylebone, London
England
Theresa May
2016 to 2019
Eastbourne , East Sussex
England
Boris Johnson
2019 to 2022
New York City , New York
United States
Liz Truss
2022
Oxford , Oxfordshire
England
Rishi Sunak
2022 to present
Southampton , Hampshire
England
References
3. "AP HUGH, Owen (1518-1613), of Bodeon, nr. Llangadwaladr, Anglesey". Retrieved 24 January 2016. (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ap-hugh-owen-1518-1613 )
See also
Lists related to prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Premiership
Personal life Depictions and honors
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