1st Edition
The Prime Ministers Volume the First: From Sir Robert Walpole to Sir Robert Peel
Introduction – The Office of Prime Minister G. W. Jones. 1. Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42) Geoffrey Holmes 2. The Earl of Wilmington (1742–43) Herbert Van Thal 3. Henry Pelham (1743–54) A. N. Newman 4. The Duke of Newcastle (1745–56; 1757–62) H. T. Dickinson 5. The Duke of Devonshire (1756–57) G. M. D. Howat 6. The Earl of Bute (1762–63) John Brewer 7. George Grenville (1763–65) P. D. G. Thomas 8. The Marquis of Rockingham (1765–66; April–July 1782) Paul Langford 9. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1766–68) Stanley Ayling 10. The Duke of Grafton (1768–70) Peter Durrant 11. Lord North (1770–82) John Cannon 12. The Earl of Shelburne (1782–83) Frank O’Gorman 13. The Duke of Portland (April–December 1783; 1807–09) E. A. Smith 14. William Pitt ‘the Younger’ (1783–1801; 1804–06) Peter Douglas Brown 15. Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (1801–04) Philip Ziegler 16. Lord Grenville (1806–07) Peter Jupp 17. Spencer Perceval (1809–12) Joyce Marlow 18. The Earl of Liverpool (1812–27) Norman Gash 19. George Canning (April–August 1827) Elizabeth Longford 20. Viscount Goderich (1827–28) J. W. Derry 21. The Duke of Wellington (1828–30) John Clark 22. Earl Grey (1828–30) George Woodbridge 23. Viscount Melbourne (1834, 1835–9, 1839–41) Dorothy Marshall 24. Sir Robert Peel (1834–5, 1841–5, 1845–6) Asa Briggs. Notes on the Authors.
Biography
Herbert van Thal (1904–1983) was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist.
