The birthplaces of UK Prime Ministers (primeminsters)

Birthplace of British PMs, Birthplace of Deputy PMs, British born PMs of Canada, British born PMs of Australia,

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Birthplaces of British Prime Minister

NameTime in office Birth Place Region, nation of UK (or name of foreign nation)  
Walpole1721 - 1742Houghton, NorfolkEast Anglia
Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington1742 - 1743Compton Wynyates, WarwickshireWest Midlands
Pelham1743 - 1754Laughton, SussexSouth East
Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1754 - 1756, 57 - 62LondonLondon
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire1756 - 1757BelgiumBelgium
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
1762 - 63LondonLondon
Grenville1763- 65 LondonLondon
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham1765- 66, 1782 - 1782South YorkshireYorkshire
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham1766- 69WestminsterLondon
3rd Duke of Grafton1768 - 70LondonLondon
Frederick North, Lord North1770 - 82LondonLondon
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne1782 - 83DublinIreland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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1783 83, 1807 09NottinghamshireWest Midlands
William Pitt the Younger1783 -01, 1804 - 06 Hayes, KentSouth East
Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth1801- 04 Holborn, LondonLondon
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville1806 -07Wotton House, BuckinghamshireSouth East
Perceval
1809 - 12LondonLondon
2nd Earl of Liverpool1812 -27LondonLondon
Canning
1827 -27 LondonLondon
1st Viscount Goderich1827 - 28LondonLondon
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1828 - 30, 1834 -1834 Dublin or county MeathIreland
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey1830 - 1834Falloden, NorthumberlandNorth East
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne1834 - 1834 1835 -41 LondonLondon
Peel1834 -1835, 1841 -46Bury, LancashireNorth West
Russell, 1st Earl Russell1846- 52, 1865-66LondonLondon
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby1852 – 1852
1858 – 11859
1866 – 1868
Knowsley Park, LancashireNorth West
4th Earl of Aberdeen1852 - 1855EdinburghScotland
3rd Viscount Palmerston1855 - 58, 1859 -65Broadlands, HampshireSouth East
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield1868 - 1868, 1874 -80LondonLondon
William Ewart Gladstone
1868 – 1874
1880 – 1885
1886 – 1886
1892 – 1894
LiverpoolNorth West
Gascoyne-Cecil1885 – 1886
1886 – 1892
1895 – 1902
Hatfield, HertfordshireSouth East
Arthur Balfour1902 - 05Whittingehame, HaddingtonshireScotland
Campbell-Bannerman1905 - 08 GlasgowScotland
Asquith1908 -16 YorkhireYorkshire
Lloyd George1916 -22ManchesterNorth West
Bonar Law1822 -23 Rexton, New Brunswick,Canada
Stanley Baldwin1923 –1924
1924 – 1929
1935 – 1937
Stourport-on-Severn, WorcestershireWest Midland
Ramsay MacDonald1924 – 1924
1929 – 1935
Lossiemouth, Morray Scotland
Chamberlain1937-40EdgbastonWest Midland
Churchill1940 - 45, 1951 - 55Blenheim Palace, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire
South East
Eden1955 - 58Bishop Auckland, DurhamNorth - East
Macmillan1957 -63 Brixton, LondonLondon
Alec Douglas-Home1963- 64MayfairLondon
Baron Wilson of Rievaulx1964 – 1970
1974 –1976
HuddersfieldYorkshire
Edward Heath1970 - 74BroadstairsSouth East
Callaghan1976 -79 HampshireSouth East
Thatcher1979 - 90Grantham, LincolnshireEast Midland
Major1990 - 97SurreySouth - East
Blair1997 - 2007Edinburgh cityScotland
Gordon Brown 2007GlasgowScotland

League table of regions and nations producing the PM

London 16

South East 9

Scotland 6

North West 4

Yorskshire 3

Ireland 2

North East 2

East Midland 1

Canada 1

Belgium 1

West Midland 4

East Anglia 1

Deputy PMs and First Secretaries of State Birthplace (DPM =Deputy Prime Minister, FS = First Secretary)

Clement Attlee 1942 -45 DPMPutneyLondon
Herbert Morrison1945 - 51 DPMLambethLondon
Eden 1951 -55 DPMBishop Auckland, DurhamNorth East
Butler 1962 -63 DPM & FSAttock Serai, IndiaIndia
George Brown1964 - 66 FSGrimsby, LincolnshireEast Midland
Michael Stewart 1966 - 68 FSBromley, LondonLondon
Barbara Castle1968 - 70 FSBradford YorkshireYorkshire
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw1979 -88 DPMNairn, in northeast Scotland.Scotland
Geoffrey Howe1989 - 90 DPMPort Talbot Wales
Michael Heseltine1995 - 97 DPM & FSSwanseaWales
Prescott1997 - 2007 DPM & FSPrestatynWales

Region nation producing Deputy PM

London 3

Wales 3

Yorkshire 1

North East 1

East Midland 1

Scotland 1

India 1

 

Canadian Prime Minister born in UK or Ireland

John A. Macdonald

1867 – 1873
1878 – 1891
GlasgowScotland
Alexander Mackenzie1873 - 78Logierait, Scotland
Mackenzie Bowell1894 - 1896Rickinghal, Mid Suffolk East Anglia
Turner1984 - 1984SurreySouth East

Scotland 2

East Anglia 1

South East 1

Australian Prime Minister born in the UK and Ireland

Reid1904 - 05RenfrewshireScotland
Fisher1908–1909
1910– 1913
1914– 1915
Crosshouse, Scotland
Cook1913 -14 Silverdale, Staffordshire,West Midland
Billy Hughes1915 - 23LondonLondon

League table

Scotland 2

West Midland 1

London1

New Zealand Prime Minister born in UK and Ireland

Sewell1856 - 1856Isle of WightSouth East
William Fox1856 - 1856, 1861 - 1862, 1869 - 72, 1873 - 1873South ShieldsNorth East
Edward Stafford1856 - 61, 1865 69, 1872 -72EdinburghScotland
Alfred Domett1862 -3Camberwell Grove, Surrey;South East
Frederick Whitaker1863 - 64OxfordshireSouth East
Waterhouse1872 -73 Penzance, Cornwall, South West
Vogel1873 - 75 LondonLondon
Pollen1875 - 76Dublin Ireland
Atkinson1876 -77, 1883 - 1884, 1884 - 1884, 1887 - 1891Broxton, Cheshire North West
Stout1884 - 1884, 1884 - 87Shetland island Scotland
Ballance1891 - 93Glenavy, UlsterIreland
Seddon1893 - 1906MerseysideNorth West
William Hall-Jones1906 - 1906Folkestone, Kent,South East
Mackenzie1912 - 1912MidlothianScotland
Massey 1912 - 25Londonderry, IrelandIreland
Fraser1940 - 49Tain, Scotland, Easter Ross,Scotland
Walter Nash1957 - 60KidderminsterWest Midland

Scotland 4

South East 4

Ireland 3

North West 2

North East 1

West Midland 1

South West 1

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