Theory:Timeline - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

This page lists Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in chronological the order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Years given for their ministry are the ones confirmed by DWU stories.

Timeline

 * 1626: George Villiers


 * 1720: Robert Walpole


 * 1752: Henry Pelham


 * 1782: Lord North
 * "The North administration had overseen the tea fiasco in Boston; the defeat of the British at the hands of General Washington; the banishment of all Scarlette’s ‘tribe’ from the Americas; and the death of the courtesan-cum-sorceress colloquially known as ‘the Queen of New York State’." (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)


 * 1782: Rockingham
 * "When the still-new Prime Minister Rockingham dropped dead on the first day of July leaving the American peace negotiations at an uncertain point, some immediately assumed that it was part of a ruthless attack on the very foundations of the country..." (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)


 * 1782: Shelburne
 * "At the end of the year, the situations were much the same, with Shelburne’s government looking as unstable as North’s and the world waiting to see whether the King would be able to weather the storm." (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)


 * William Pitt the Younger


 * Arthur Wellesley


 * George Canning


 * 1868: Benjamin Disraeli
 * DISRAELI: He, on the other hand, has made a practical demonstration and a practical offer. so. Who are you, and who is he? (COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction)


 * William Ewart Gladstone


 * 1877: Benjamin Disraeli
 * "The prime minister would not have given me permission to annex otherwise? Even as he said it though, Shepstone knew he was convincing neither his visitors nor himself what Disraeli had given him was carte blanche to go ahead with an act that unequivocally broke the government's promise." (PROSE: White Man's Burden)


 * William Ewart Gladstone


 * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil


 * Arthur Balfour


 * Herbert Asquith


 * David Lloyd George
 * DOCTOR: I'm telling you. Lloyd George, he used to drink me under the table. (TV: Aliens of London)


 * Ramsay MacDonald


 * Stanley Baldwin


 * Neville Chamberlain


 * 1940-1945: Winston Churchill


 * 1951-1955: Winston Churchill


 * Anthony Eden
 * DOCTOR: Sorry, excuse me. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Who, um, who's the Prime Minister? ... Margaret Thatcher? Harriet Jones? Wilson? Eden? (TV: Knock Knock)


 * Harold Macmillan


 * 1963-1964 Alec Douglas-Home


 * 1964-1970: Harold Wilson
 * 'Look, Harold Wilson called the election for 18 June long after the publication date for Bad Science was announced. You can hardly blame me, my editor, or my publisher if the Prime Minister has a poor sense of timing,' (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)


 * 1970: Edward Heath
 * "The new Heath Government had a very short honeymoon, with blame for the collapse of the World Peace Conference in November 1970 being laid squarely at its door." (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * ‘What’s the year? 1996. Starting from the 1970s, how does it go? ... Heath, Thorpe, Williams, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Clarke. . . Major. Yes. Major.’ (PROSE: Interference - Book One)
 * NOTE: Interference omits Callaghan, Phipps, unnamed, Greyhaven, and Brooks. Granted, some of these were introduced retroactively.


 * 1974: Unnamed


 * Unnamed


 * Harold Wilson


 * 1970s?: Jeremy Thorpe
 * MINISTER: Wretched fellow needs a swift kick on the backside. Would you care to administer, Jeremy?
 * BRIGADIER: And what's more, sir. What do you say? (pause) Oh. Yes, good afternoon, sir. Duty? Yes, I think I know. Yes, I know that. Is that an order, Prime Minister? I see. (TV: The Green Death)


 * 1970s? Shirley Williams
 * BENTON: UNIT Headquarters. Who? Oh, yes, he's here. Just a moment, please. It's for you, sir. The Prime Minister.
 * BRIGADIER: Lethbridge Stewart speaking. Oh, absolutely understood, madam. No public announcement. Yes, madam. Discreet action. Discreet but resolute. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)


 * 1976-1979: James Callaghan
 * AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure


 * 1979-1987: Margaret Thatcher
 * DOCTOR: 1979. Hell of a year. China invades Vietnam. The Muppet Movie. Love that film. Margaret Thatcher. Urgh. Skylab falls to Earth, with a little help from me. Nearly took off my thumb. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
 * POSTERS: No Third Term For Thatcher (TV: Father's Day)


 * 1992: Margery Phipps


 * 1996: John Major
 * ‘What’s the year? 1996. Starting from the 1970s, how does it go? ... Heath, Thorpe, Williams, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Clarke. . . Major. Yes. Major.’ (PROSE: Interference - Book One)


 * 1997: Unnamed


 * 1997: Edward Greyhaven


 * 1999-2000: Terry Brooks


 * Tony Blair
 * MICKEY: Oh, come on. You've seen it on films. Like an alternative to our world where everything's the same but a little bit different, like, I don't know, traffic lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)


 * Kenneth Clarke
 * ‘What’s the year? 1996. Starting from the 1970s, how does it go? ... Heath, Thorpe, Williams, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Clarke. . . Major. Yes. Major.’ (PROSE: Interference - Book One


 * 2005: Unnamed


 * 2006: Unnamed
 * DOCTOR: Who's the Prime Minister now? (TV: Aliens of London)
 * ROSE: How should I know? I missed a year.
 * NOTE: The body double of the Prime Minister was intended to look like Tony Blair.


 * 2006: "Joseph Green"
 * GREEN: Never mind that, where is he? Where's the Prime Minister?
 * GANESH: No one knows, sir. He's disappeared. I have to inform you that with the city gridlocked and the Cabinet stranded outside London, that makes you acting Prime Minister with immediate effect. (TV: Aliens of London / World War Three)


 * 2006-c. 2008: Harriet Jones
 * HARRIET: I don't think we've been introduced. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
 * MARTHA: That's so weird though. It's the day after the election. That's only four days after I met you. (TV: The Sound of Drums)


 * 2008: "Harold Saxon"
 * (TV: The Sound of Drums)


 * 2008-2009: Aubrey Fairchild
 * ‘Fairchild? ... I know lots of prime ministers,’ the Doctor said. ‘But in this century they come and go annually, I think. This one clearly makes no impression on history.’ (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)


 * 2009: Brian Green


 * 2010s: Unnamed


 * 2014: Unnamed


 * 2015: Daniel Claremont


 * 2017: Felicity


 * 2018: Fiona


 * 2018: Theresa May


 * 2026: Unnamed


 * c. 2050s Mariah Learman