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British Prime Ministers' First Names

Here are the surnames of the British Prime Minsters since 1840. What are/were their most commonly used given names?
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Last updated: May 21, 2021
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surname
answer
Asquith
Herbert
Attlee
Clement
Baldwin
Stanley
Balfour
Arthur
Blair
Tony
Brown
Gordon
Callaghan
James
Cameron
David
Campbell-Bannerman
Henry
Chamberlain
Neville
Churchill
Winston
surname
answer
Disraeli
Benjamin
Douglas-Home
Alec
Eden
Anthony
Gascoyne-Cecil
Marquess of Salisbury
Robert
Gladstone
William
Hamilton-Gordon
Earl of Aberdeen
George
Heath
Edward
Johnson
Boris
Lamb
Viscount Melbourne
William
Law
Andrew Bonar
Lloyd George
David
surname
answer
MacDonald
Ramsay
Macmillan
Harold
Major
John
May
Theresa
Peel
Robert
Primrose
Earl of Rosebery
Archibald
Russell
John
Smith-Stanley
Earl of Derby
Edward
Temple
Viscount Palmerston
Henry
Thatcher
Margaret
Wilson
Harold
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Level 56
Jan 15, 2020
Andrew Bonar Law's first name was NOT Bonar, but Andrew
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Level 76
Jan 15, 2020
Either of Law's given names - Andrew and Bonar - work now.
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Level 65
May 7, 2020
Harold was Wilson's middle name his first name was James
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Level 76
May 7, 2020
Thanks - we've widened the instructions to point users to the most common given name.
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Level 78
May 21, 2021
Where's May and Johnson?
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Level 76
May 21, 2021
Neither were PMs when this quiz was first written! We've added them in now, thanks.
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Level 43
Nov 25, 2021
Ramsay McDonald's first name was James.
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Level 76
Nov 25, 2021
*MacDonald. Please double-check the instructions!
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Level 53
Nov 6, 2022
Truss and Sunak now need to be on here (probably Mordaunt by the time I've finished typing this!)