Whig Tory Conservative Portrait NameHonorifics and constituency Term of office Party Ministry Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney before 1789 Viscount Sydney after 1789 4 September 17846 March 1790 Whig Pitt I William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 6 March 179022 June 1793 Tory(Pittite) Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville MP for Edinburgh 22 June 179325 April 1801 Tory George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth 25 April 18012 July 1802 Tory Addington Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh MP for Down before 1805 MP for Boroughbridge after 1806 2 July 180211 February 1806 Tory Pitt II Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto 11 February 180615 July 1806 Whig All the Talents ( Whig –Tory ) Thomas Grenville MP for Buckingham 15 July 180630 September 1806 Whig George Tierney MP for Athlone 30 September 18066 April 1807 Whig Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian 6 April 180711 July 1809 Tory Portland II Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby 11 July 1809November 1809 Tory Perceval Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian before 1811 Viscount Melville after 1811 November 18094 April 1812 Tory Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 4 April 18124 June 1816 Tory Liverpool George Canning MP for Liverpool 4 June 1816June 1821 Tory Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich June 18214 February 1822 Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850) MP for Montgomeryshire 4 February 18224 February 1828 Tory Canning ( Canningite – Whig ) Goderich ( Canningite – Whig ) Wellington– Peel Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville 4 February 182817 September 1828 Tory Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough 17 September 18281 December 1830 Tory Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg MP for Inverness-shire 1 December 183018 September 1834 Whig Grey Melbourne I Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough 18 September 183423 April 1835 Conservative Peel I John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton MP for Nottingham 23 April 183530 August 1841 Whig Melbourne II Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough 4 September 184123 October 1841 Conservative Peel II William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey 23 October 184117 May 1843 Conservative F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich 17 May 184330 June 1846 Conservative John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton MP for Nottingham before 1847 MP for Harwich after 1848 8 July 18465 February 1852 Whig Russell Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie MP for Perth 5 February 185221 February 1852 Whig John Charles Herries MP for Stamford 28 February 185217 December 1852 Conservative Who? Who? Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax MP for Halifax 30 December 18523 March 1855 Whig Aberdeen ( Peelite – Whig ) Robert Vernon MP for Northampton 3 March 185521 February 1858 Whig Palmerston I Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough 6 March 18585 June 1858 Conservative Derby– Disraeli II Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby MP for King's Lynn 5 June 18582 August 1858 Conservative