Who was the UK Prime Minister previous to Tony Blair?

Answer 1

46.

Before Gordon Brown, forty-six different people have held the office of Prime Minister since it was created in 1721. They are (alphabetically)

• Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995) [Sir]
• Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923)
• Anthony Eden (1897-1977) [Sir]
• Archibald Primrose,5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929)
• Arthur Balfour(1848-1930)
• Arthur Wellesley,1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
• Augustus FitzRoy,3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811)
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
• Charles Grey,2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845)
• Charles Watson-Wentworth,2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782)
• Clement Attlee (1883-1967)
• David Lloyd George (1863-1945)
• Edward Heath (1916-2005)
• Edward Smith-Stanley,14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)
• Frederick John Robinson,1st Viscount Goderich (1782-1859)
• Frederick North,Lord North (1732-1792)
• George Canning (1770-1827)
• George Grenville (1712-1770)
• George Hamilton-Gordon,4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
• Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)
• Harold Wilson (1916-1995)
• Henry Addington (1757-1844)
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908) [Sir]
• Henry John Temple,3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)
• Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928)
• James Callaghan (1912-2005)
• John Major (1943- )
• John Russell (1792-1878) [Lord]
• John Stuart,3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925- )
• Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
• Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)
• Robert Banks Jenkinson,2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil,3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903)
• Robert Peel (1788-1850) [Sir]
• Spencer Perceval (1762-1812)
• Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
• Tony Blair (1953- )
• William Cavendish-Bentinck,3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809)
• William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
• William Lamb,2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)
• William Petty-FitzMaurice,2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805)
• William Pitt the Elder,1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
• William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806)
• William Wyndham Grenville,1st Lord Grenville(1759-1834)
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965) [Sir]

Some of them held the office for multiple terms, some contiguously, others not.

Prior to 1721, the position we now know as the Prime Minister was called the First Lord of the Treasury (a title that still comes with becoming the Prime Minister), and going back even further it was called the Lord High Treasurer, a title which began in medieval times beginning with Nigel - Bishop of Ely, in about 1126.

Out of the 47 former Prime Ministers including Gordon Brown, only four (8.5%) are still alive - an amusing if fairly pointless statistic. They are Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Answer 2

John Major was the British Prime Minister prior to Tony Blair
John Major.
Tony Blair replaced Conservative John Major.
John Major
28 Nov. 1990 to 2 May 1997

Answer 3

The current Prime Minister - David Cameron.

Answer 4

Tony Blair 1997-2007

Answer 5

Tony Blair

Answer 6

John Major