UK Prime Ministers

I found the following at Eton College web site(etoncollege.com) (apparently, it is spelled 'Eton', not 'Eaton'. A fact I did not realize until after I had spent some time ignoring it.)

In chronological order of office: Walpole, Sir Robert, KG, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) PM 1721-1742

Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) PM 1756-1757, 1757-1761 and 1766-1768

Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of (1713-1792) PM 1762-1763

Grenville, George (1712-1770) PM 1763-1765

North, Frederick, 8th Baron (1732-1792) PM 1770-1782

Grenville, William, 1st Baron (1759-1834) PM 1806-1807

Canning, George (1770-1827) PM 1827

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of (1769-1852) PM 1828-1830 and 1834

Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl (1764-1845) PM 1830-1834

Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount (1779-1848) PM 1834 and 1835-1841

Derby, Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of (1799-1869) PM 1852, 1858-1859 and 1866-1868

Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) PM 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886 and 1892-1894

Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of (1830-1903) PM 1885-1886, 1886-1892 and 1895-1902

Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of (1847-1929) PM 1894-1895

Balfour, Arthur (1848-1930) PM 1902-1905, later 1st Earl of Balfour

Eden, Sir Anthony (1897-1977) PM 1955-1957, later 1st Earl of Avon

Macmillan, Harold (1894-1986) PM 1957-1963, later 1st Earl of Stockton

Douglas-Home, Sir Alec (1903-1995) PM 1963-1964, formerly 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel

NOTE: Notwithstanding at least one edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, the 3rd Duke of Portland (PM 1807-1809) was educated at Westminster, not Eton. The 2nd Earl Waldegrave has also been listed elsewhere as an Old Etonian prime minister - he did not in fact succeed in forming an administration (in 1757), and there is no proof that he was at Eton.

David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, the first Welshman to hold the office. He was Chancellor to Herbert Asquith, but took over as PM when Asquith resiged following disagreements over wartime policy in the middle of WW1.

Lloyd George saw Britain to victory in the war, attended the Treaty of Versailles and secured massive war reparations for the UK from Germany, but was voted out in October 1922 to be replaced by the Conservative Andrew Bonar Law.
David Lloyd George

Tony Blair was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2002.

He had been in office since winning a landslide victory against the Conservatives in the election of May 1997.

He supported US military action against Afghanistan following the World Trade Centre Disaster, but also took Britain into war with Iraq in support of the USA, which was illegal under international law and led to massive unpopularity at home. He never recovered from this notoriety, especially as it led to the terrorist bomb attacks on the London transport network on 7th July 2005, which saw 51 people killed.

Blair never apologised for his actions, and had an increased tendency to behave like a dictator, using bouncers to drag his opponents from the room at political conferences and in some cases, tabling political proposals that were on the verge of being extreme right. This created such public hatred, and such opposition within his own party, that he was forced to resign on 11th May 2007, exactly ten years to the day since taking office.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland contains England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which each have First Ministers, excepting England.

The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was named in honor of William Pitt (the Elder), Earl of Chatham, when it was founded by British general John Forbes in 1758. Pitt was not the actual prime minister when he first led the UK government from 1756 to 1761, but became Lord Privy Seal from 1766 to 1768.

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Additionally: Pelham, Massachusetts was founded in 1738 and named for the Pelham family, which included Henry Pelham, who became prime minister in 1743, the year of the town's incorporation. Similarly, the city of Pelham, New Hampshire was incorporated in 1746 and named for Henry's brother Thomas, the Duke of Newcastle, who later served as prime minister (1754-1756).

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Four US cities are named Wilmington, at least presumably in honor of Spencer Compton, Duke of Wilmington, the 2nd true Prime Minister of the UK, who served from 1742 to 1743. The cities are in the states of Delaware, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Vermont.

He works from home at 10 Downing Street and at the House of Commons which is about 300 yards away.
The Prime Minister has his own office in the Palace of Westminster, and also has an office suite at his official home in no.10 Downing Street. These two places are where he does most of his work- processing documents, reading letters from the public, holding Cabinet meetings with his Government ministers, assessing petitions, meeting VIPs and so on.

But he also has a country residence called Chequers, which has been the country retreat of the British Prime Minister since it was gifted to the office of PM by the nation in 1917. Here he can also receive important guests and entertain them, use it as a retreat at which to ponder over serious issues and how they might be resolved, or simply for a break in which to 'get away from it all' for a while.