Britain and Ireland, 1791-1921 Complete Notes

Whigs

Tories

Radicals

Liberal

Conservatives

Peelites

 

                                                 DATE

PRIME MINISTER

GOVERNMENT

1791-1801(14th March)

William Pitt the Younger

Tory

1801-1804 (10^th May)

Henry Addington/ Sidmouth

Tory

1804-1806 (23^rd January)

William Pitt the Younger

Tory

1806-1807 (31^st march)

Lord Grenville

Whigs

1807-1809 (4^th October)

Duke of Portland

Tory

1809-1812 (11^th May)

Spencer Perceval

Tory

1812-1827

Lord Liverpool

Tory

1827 10^th April- 8^th August

George Canning

Tory

1827-1828 (21^st January)

Frederik John Robinson

Tory

1828-1830 (16^th November)

Duke of Wellington

Tory

1830-1834 (16^th July)

Earl Grey

Whigs

1834-1835 (8^th April)

Robert Peel

Tory

1835-1841 (30^th August)

Lord Melbourne

Whigs

1841-1846 (29^th June)

Robert peel

Conservative

1846-1852 (23^rd February)

Lord John Russel

Liberal

1852 (23^rd February- 19^th December)

Earl of Derby

Conservative

1852- 1855 (30^th January)

Earl of Aberdeen

Peelites

1855- 1858 (19^th February)

Viscount Palmerston

Liberal

1858-1859 (12^th June)

Earl of Derby

Conservative

1859- 1865 (18^th October)

Viscount Palmerston

Liberal

1865 (29^th October)- 1866 (28^th June)

Lord John Russel

Liberal

1866-1868 (27^th February)

Earl of Derby

Conservative

1868 (27^th February- 1^st December)

Benjamin Disraeli

Conservative

1868 (3^rd December)-1874 (17^th February)

William Wart Gladstone

Liberal

1874 (20^th February)- 1880 (21^st April)

Benjamin Disraeli

Conservative

1880 (23^rd April)- 1885 (9^th June)

William Wart Gladstone

Liberal

1885 (23^rd June) -1886 (23^rd January)

Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury

Conservative

1886 (1^st February)-20^th July

William Ewart Gladstone

Liberal

1886 (25^th July)- (11^th August 1892)

Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury

Conservative

1892 (15^th august)- 1894 (2^nd march)

William Ewart Gladstone

Liberal

1894 (5^th march)- 1895 (22^nd June)

Earl of Rosebery

Liberal

1895 (25^th June)- 1902 (11^th July)

Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury

Conservative

1902-1905 (5^th December)

Arthur Balfour

Conservative

1905-1908 (3^rd April)

Henry Campbell- Bannermann

Liberal

1906 (5^th April)- 1916 (5^th December)

H.H. Asquith

Liberal

1916 (6^th December)-1922 (19^th October)

David Lloyd George

Coalition / National Liberal Party

 

1688 – ‘Glorious revolution’ – all monarchs should be protestant

Charles 2^nd was a Catholic and was beheaded for it.

Charles 2^nd had many children and the Duke of Monmouth

Charles 2^nd had no legitimate sons

James 2^nd therefore takes the throne and publicly announced his Catholicism 

-       This displeased the Whigs

-       They said it threatened Britain after the gunpowder plot

-       Tory view - If the Monarch is legitimate, treason is the only reason to remove them from power – they wouldn’t overthrow his

-       The Whigs wouldn’t overthrow him but if he had a son, there would be a Catholic rule

-       Exclusion Crisis – James 2nd eldest son not to take the throne.

-       (youngest child) Mary decided to grow up a Protestant and married to William of Orange – James 2^nd renounced his…