Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford : "All these men have their price"
Spencer Compton, first Earl of Wilmington, "George II's favourite nonentity"
Henry Pelham : pragmatic heir to Walpole
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle : mighty panjandrum, feeble premier
William Cavendish, fourth Duke of Devonshire : "I have no motive but the king's service"
John Stuart, third Earl of Bute : the king's "dearest friend"
George Grenville : able premier, undetermined by his own prolixity
Charles Watson-Wentworth, second Marquess of Rockingham : the conscience of the Whigs
William Pitt, the Elder, first Earl of Chatham : "I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can"
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton : well-intentioned dilettante
Frederick North, styled Lord North : outstanding parliamentarian, pity about the colonies ...
William Petty, second Earl of Shelburne : too clever by half?
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, third Duke of Portland : twice a figurehead premier
William Pitt, the Younger : peacetime prodigy, less successful in war.
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Eighteenth-century British premiers : Walpole to the younger Pitt by R. L. Leonard. ISBN 9781403939081. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
