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This is a list of speakers of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801.
For the 'prolocutors' and speakers of the House of Commons of England, see List of speakers of the House of Commons of England.
The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the Acts of Union 1707. At the beginning of 1801, Great Britain was combined with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a single House of Commons serving the whole kingdom.
John Smith, Speaker of the House of Commons of England since October 1705, was elected the first Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Portrait | Name Constituency (Birth–Death) | Term of office E: Election R: Royal approbation †: Death | Election(s) [1] (in brackets if unopposed) Parliament(s) | Retirement peerage | ||
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John Smith MP for Andover (1656–1723) | E 23 October R 30 October 1707 | 1708 [lower-alpha 1] | (1707) [2] | 1 | — | |
Sir Richard Onslow Bt MP for Surrey (1654–1717) | E 16 November R 18 November 1708 | 1710 [lower-alpha 2] | (1708) [3] | 2 | Baron Onslow | |
William Bromley MP for Oxford University (1663–1732) | E 25 November R 27 November 1710 | 1713 [lower-alpha 3] | (1710) [4] | 3 | — | |
Sir Thomas Hanmer Bt MP for Suffolk (1677–1746) | E 16 February R 18 February 1714 | 1715 [lower-alpha 4] | (1714) [5] | 4 | — | |
Sir Spencer Compton KB MP for Sussex (c. 1673–1743) | E 17 March R 21 March 1715 | 1727 [lower-alpha 5] | (1715) [6] (1722) [7] | 5 6 | Baron Wilmington | |
Arthur Onslow MP for Surrey (1691–1768) | E 23 January R 27 January 1728 | 18 March 1761 [lower-alpha 6] | (1728) [9] (1735) [10] (1741) [11] (1747) [12] (1754) [13] | 7 8 9 10 11 | [lower-alpha 7] | |
Sir John Cust Bt MP for Grantham (1718–1770) | E 3 November R 6 November 1761 | 19 January 1770 [lower-alpha 8] | (1761) [16] (1768) [17] | 12 13 | [lower-alpha 9] | |
Sir Fletcher Norton MP for Guildford (1716–1789) | E 22 January R 23 January 1770 | 31 October 1780 [lower-alpha 10] | 1770 [18] (1774) [19] | 13 14 | Baron Grantley | |
Charles Wolfran Cornwall MP for Winchelsea until 1784 MP for Rye from 1784 (1735–1789) | E 31 October R 1 November 1780 | 2 January 1789† | 1780 [20] (1784) [21] | 15 16 | [lower-alpha 11] | |
William Wyndham Grenville MP for Buckinghamshire (1759–1834) | E 5 January 1789 no royal approbation [lower-alpha 12] | 5 June 1789 [lower-alpha 13] | Jan.1789 [24] | 16 | Baron Grenville | |
Henry Addington MP for Devizes (1757–1844) | E 8 June R 9 June 1789 | continued as UK Speaker | Jun.1789 [25] (1790) [26] (1796) [27] | 16 17 18 | Viscount Sidmouth | |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1801. In 1922 the Irish Free State ceased to be part of the UK. The official name of the United Kingdom was changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in 1927.
Portrait | Name Constituency (Birth–Death) | Term of office E: Election R: Royal approbation †: Death | Election(s) (in brackets if unopposed) Parliament(s) | Party [lower-alpha 14] | Retirement peerage | |||
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Henry Addington MP for Devizes (1757–1844) | E 22 January R 23 January 1801 | 10 February 1801 [lower-alpha 15] | (Jan.1801) [31] | 1 | Tory | Viscount Sidmouth | ||
Sir John Mitford KC FRS MP for East Looe (1748–1830) | E 11 February R 12 February 1801 | 9 February 1802 [lower-alpha 16] | (Feb.1801) [33] | 1 | Tory | Baron Redesdale | ||
Charles Abbot FRS MP for Helston until 1802 MP for Woodstock 1802–1806 MP for Oxford University after 1806 (1757–1829) | E 10 February R 11 February 1802 | 2 June 1817 | (Feb.1802) [34] (Nov.1802) [35] (1806) [36] (1807) [37] (1812) [38] | 1 2 3 4 5 | Tory | Baron Colchester | ||
Sir Charles Manners-Sutton GCB MP for Scarborough until 1832 MP for Cambridge University after 1832 (1780–1845) | E 2 June [39] R 3 June [40] 1817 | 19 February 1835 [lower-alpha 17] | 1817 [39] (1819) [42] (1820) [43] (1826) [44] (1830) [45] (1831) [46] 1833 [47] | 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | Tory | Viscount Canterbury | ||
James Abercromby MP for Edinburgh (1776–1858) | E 19 February [41] R 20 February [48] 1835 | 27 May 1839 | 1835 [41] (1837) [49] | 12 13 | Whig | Baron Dunfermline | ||
Charles Shaw-Lefevre MP for North Hampshire (1794–1888) | E 27 May [50] R 28 May [51] 1839 | 30 April 1857 | 1839 [50] (1841) [52] (1847) [53] (1852) [54] | 13 14 15 16 | Whig | Viscount Eversley | ||
John Evelyn Denison MP for North Nottinghamshire (1800–1873) | E 30 April [55] R 1 May [56] 1857 | 9 February 1872 | (1857) [55] (1859) [57] (1866) [58] (1868) [59] | 17 18 19 20 | Liberal | Viscount Ossington | ||
Sir Henry Brand GCB MP for Cambridgeshire (1814–1892) | E 9 February [60] R 12 February [61] 1872 | 26 February 1884 | (1872) [60] (1874) [62] (1880) [63] | 20 21 22 | Liberal | Viscount Hampden | ||
Arthur Peel MP for Warwick until 1885 MP for Warwick and Leamington after 1885 (1829–1912) | E 26 February [64] R 27 February [65] 1884 | 10 April 1895 | (1884) [64] (Jan.1886) [66] (Aug.1886) [67] (1892) [68] | 22 23 24 25 | Liberal | Viscount Peel | ||
William Court Gully KC MP for Carlisle (1835–1909) | E 10 April [69] R 22 April [70] 1895 | 8 June 1905 | Apr.1895 [69] (Aug.1895) [71] (1900) [72] | 25 26 27 | Liberal | Viscount Selby | ||
James Lowther MP for Penrith until 1918 MP for Penrith and Cockermouth after 1918 (1855–1949) | E 8 June [73] R 20 June [74] 1905 | 28 April 1921 | (1905) [73] (1906) [75] (1910) [76] (1911) [77] (1919) [78] | 27 28 29 30 31 | Conservative | Viscount Ullswater | ||
John Henry Whitley MP for Halifax (1866–1935) | E & R [79] 28 April 1921 | 20 June 1928 | (1921) (1922) [80] (Jan.1924) [81] (Dec.1924) | 31 32 33 34 | Liberal (Coalition) | [lower-alpha 18] | ||
Edward FitzRoy DL MP for Daventry (1869–1943) | E 20 June [82] R 21 June [83] 1928 | 3 March 1943† | (1928) [82] (1929) (1931) [84] (1935) [85] | 34 35 36 37 | Conservative | [lower-alpha 19] | ||
Douglas Clifton Brown MP for Hexham (1879–1958) | E [86] & R [87] 9 March 1943 | 31 October 1951 | (1943) [86] (1945) [88] (1950) [89] | 37 38 39 | Conservative | Viscount Ruffside | ||
William Morrison MC QC MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (1893–1961) | E 31 October [90] R 1 November [91] 1951 | 19 September 1959 | 1951 [90] (1955) [92] | 40 41 | Conservative | Viscount Dunrossil | ||
Sir Harry Hylton-Foster MP for Cities of London and Westminster (1905–1965) | E 20 October [93] R 21 October [94] 1959 | 2 September 1965† | (1959) [93] (1964) [95] | 42 43 | Conservative | [lower-alpha 20] | ||
Horace King MP for Southampton Itchen (1901–1986) | E [96] & R [97] 26 October 1965 | 12 January 1971 | (1965) [96] (1966) [98] (1970) [99] | 43 44 45 | Labour | Baron Maybray-King for Life | ||
Selwyn Lloyd CH CBE QC DL MP for Wirral (1904–1978) | E [100] & R [101] 12 January 1971 | 3 February 1976 | 1971 [100] (Mar.1974) [102] (Oct.1974) [103] | 45 46 47 | Conservative | Baron Selwyn-Lloyd for Life | ||
George Thomas MP for Cardiff West (1909–1997) | E [104] & R [105] 3 February 1976 | 10 June 1983 | (1976) [104] (1979) [106] | 47 48 | Labour | Viscount Tonypandy | ||
Bernard Weatherill MP for Croydon North East (1920–2007) | E 15 June [107] R 16 June [108] 1983 | 9 April 1992 | (1983) [107] (1987) [109] | 49 50 | Conservative | Baron Weatherill for Life | ||
Betty Boothroyd MP for West Bromwich West (1929–2023) | E 27 April [110] R 28 April [111] 1992 | 23 October 2000 | 1992 [110] (1997) [112] | 51 52 | Labour | Baroness Boothroyd for Life | ||
Michael Martin MP for Glasgow Springburn until 2005 MP for Glasgow North East after 2005 (1945–2018) | E [113] & R [114] 23 October 2000 | 22 June 2009 [lower-alpha 21] | 2000 [113] (2001) [115] (2005) [116] | 52 53 54 | Labour | Baron Martin of Springburn for Life | ||
John Bercow MP for Buckingham (born 1963) | E & R 22 June 2009 | 4 November 2019 | 2009 [117] (2010) [118] (2015) [119] (2017) [120] | 54 55 56 57 | Conservative | — | ||
Sir Lindsay Hoyle [121] MP for Chorley (born 1957) | E & R 4 November 2019 | Incumbent | Nov.2019 [122] (Dec.2019) [123] | 57 58 | Labour | — |
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