Sunday, January 23, 2011

As If To Prove A Point

21 British Prime Ministers Since 1901...


Arthur Balfour
1902-1905
Trinity College, Cambridge

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1905-1908
Trinity College, Cambridge

Herbert Henry Asquith
1908-1916
Balliol College, Oxford

David Lloyd George
1916-1922

Andrew Bonar Law
1922-1923

Stanley Baldwin
1923-1924, 1924-1929, 1935-1937
Trinity College, Cambridge

Ramsey MacDonald
1924-1924, 1929-1935

Neville Chamberlain
1937-1940

Sir Winston Churchill
1940-1945, 1951-1955

Clement Attlee
1945-1951
University College, Oxford

Sir Anthony Eden
1955-1957
Christ Church, Oxford

Harold Macmillan
1957-1963
Balliol College, Oxford

Sir Alec Douglas-Home
1963-1964
Christ Church, Oxford

Harold Wilson
1964-1970, 1974-1976
Jesus College, Oxford

Edward Heath
1970-1974
Balliol College, Oxford

James Callaghan
1976-1979

Margaret Thatcher
1979-1990
Somerville College, Oxford

John Major
1990-1997

Tony Blair
1997-2007
St Johns College, Oxford

Gordon Brown
2007-2010

David Cameron
2010-Date
Brasenose College, Oxford


...of whom 13 went to either Oxford or Cambridge.

And that doesn't even begin to try to include Cabinet members, Shadow Cabinet members or other MPs.

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