List of children of prime ministers of the United Kingdom

This is a list of children and grandchildren of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

Children and grandchildren of the Prime Ministers

Sir Robert Walpole (created Earl of Orford)

1. Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford

2. Lady Katherine Walpole
3. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford – Whig MP for 27 years
4. Mary Cholmondeley, Countess of Cholmondeley

5. Sir Edward Walpole – MP in UK for 38 years and in Ireland for 23 years

6. Lady Maria Churchill

  • Charles Churchill
  • Mary Cadogan, Countess Cadogan

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

The Earl of Wilmington was unmarried and childless.
The earldom became extinct on his death.

Henry Pelham

1. Catherine Pelham-Clinton, Countess of Lincoln

2. Frances Pelham
3. Grace Watson, Lady Sondes

  • Lewis Watson, 2nd Baron Sondes

4. Mary Pelham

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

The Duke of Newcastle was married but childless.
Dukedom of Newcastle-under-Lyne was inherited by his nephew The Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln.

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

1. William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire – served as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland

2. Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

3. Lord Richard Cavendish – MP for 8 years
4. George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington – MP for 55 years

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

1. Mary Lowther, Countess of Lonsdale
2. John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute – Tory MP for 10 years

3. Anne Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
4. James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie – MP for 29 years

5. Jane Macartney, Countess Macartney
6. Lady Augusta Corbet
7. Frederick Stuart
8. Col. Sir Charles Stuart – MP for 23 years

9. William Stuart – served as Archbishop of Armagh

10. Caroline Dawson, Countess of Portarlington

  • Caroline Parnell, Lady Congleton
  • John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington
  • Capt. Henry Dawson
  • Col. George Dawson-Damer – Conservative MP for 17 years
  • Lionel Dawson

11. Lady Louisa Stuart

George Grenville

1. Richard Grenville
2. George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham – MP for 5 years

3. Charlotte Williams-Wynn

4. Thomas Grenville – MP for 30 years
5. Elizabeth Proby, Countess of Carysfort

  • Lady Charlotte Proby
  • Lady Frances Proby
  • George Proby
  • Lady Elizabeth Wells

6. William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville – served as Tory MP for 8 years and (Whig) Prime Minister
7. Catherine Neville

8. Hester Fortescue, Countess Fortescue

  • Hester King, Lady King
  • Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue – Whig MP for 31 years
  • Catherine Fellowes, Countess of Portsmouth
  • Capt. George Fortescue
  • Lady Mary Hamlyn-Williams
  • John Fortescue
  • Elizabeth Courtenay, Countess of Devon
  • Lady Anne Wilbraham
  • Lady Eleanor Fortescue

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

The Marquess of Rockingham was married but childless.
The marquessate became extinct on his death.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

1. Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon

2. General John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
3. Lady Harriet Eliot

  • Hester Eliot

4. William Pitt – served as Tory MP for 24 years and Prime Minister
5. James Pitt

Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton

1. Lady Georgiana Smyth

  • John Smyth
  • Lt.-Col. George Wilson

2. George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton – Whig MP for 29 years

  • Lady Maria Oglander
  • Lady Georgiana FitzRoy
  • Lady Elizabeth Smyth
  • Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton – MP for 14 years
  • Lt.-Col. Lord Charles FitzRoy – MP for 28 years
  • Lady Isabella St. John
  • Lord William FitzRoy
  • Lord Hugh FitzRoy
  • Lord Richard FitzRoy
  • Lord Richard FitzRoy
  • Lord James FitzRoy

3. General Lord Charles FitzRoy – MP for 25 years

  • Lt.-Col. Charles FitzRoy
  • Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy – Conservative MP for 2 years
  • Frances Rice-Trevor, Lady Dynevor

4. Lord Henry FitzRoy

  • Caroline Wilson
  • Henry FitzRoy
  • Lt.-Col. Hugh FitzRoy
  • Augustus FitzRoy
  • Francis FitzRoy

5. Lord Frederick FitzRoy
6. Lady Augusta Tavel

  • Augusta Murray-Gartshore

7. Frances Spencer, Lady Churchill

  • Elizabeth de Sausmarez
  • Francis Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill
  • Lt.-Col. George Spencer
  • Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock
  • General Sir Augustus Spencer
  • William Spencer
  • Col. Robert Spencer
  • Charles Spencer

8. Admiral Lord William FitzRoy – MP for 6 years

  • Harriet Dawes
  • Francis FitzRoy

9. Lord John FitzRoy – Whig MP for 12 years
10. Lady Charlotte FitzRoy
11. Lady Elizabeth FitzRoy
12. Lady Isabella Blachford

Frederick North, Lord North (later 2nd Earl of Guilford)

1. George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford – MP for 14 years

  • unknown son
  • Maria Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute
  • unknown son
  • Susan North, 10th Baroness North
  • Lady Georgiana North

2. Catherine North
3. Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford
4. Lady Charlotte Lindsay
5. Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford – MP for 2 years
6. Anne Holroyd, Countess of Sheffield

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (created Marquess of Lansdowne)

1. John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne – MP for 16 years
2. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne – served as Whig MP for 7 years, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Lords

3. Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

1. William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland – MP for 18 years

2. Lt.-Gen. Lord William Bentinck – served as MP for 23 years and Governor-General of India
3. Lady Charlotte Greville

4. Lady Mary Cavendish-Bentinck
5. Lt.-Col. Lord Charles Bentinck – MP for 5 years

6. Maj.-Gen. Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck

William Pitt (the Younger)

William Pitt was unmarried and childless.

Henry Addington (created Viscount Sidmouth)

1. Frances Pellew

2. Charles Addington
3. Charlotte Currie
4. Henrietta Wall
5. Henry Addington
6. William Addington, 2nd Viscount Sidmouth

William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

The Lord Grenville was married but childless.
The barony became extinct on his death.

Spencer Perceval

1. Jane Perceval
2. Frances Perceval
3. Maria Perceval
4. Spencer Perceval – MP for 7 years

  • Eleanor Matheson
  • Jane Marsh
  • Spencer Perceval
  • Maria Stevens
  • Lt. John Perceval
  • Capt. Norman Perceval

5. Charles Perceval
6. Frederick Perceval

  • Frederica Waterhouse
  • Spencer Perceval
  • George Perceval
  • Charles Perceval
  • Montagu Perceval
  • James Perceval

7. Henry Perceval

  • Henry Perceval
  • Catherine Perceval

8. Dudley Perceval

  • Charles Perceval
  • Isabel Armitage

9. Isabella Walpole

10. John Thomas Perceval

  • Selina Walpole
  • Alice Perceval

11. Louisa Perceval
12. Frederica Perceval
13. Ernest Perceval

  • Ernest Perceval
  • Spencer Perceval
  • Alfred Perceval
  • Cecil Perceval

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

The Earl of Liverpool was twice married but childless.
The earldom was inherited by his half-brother The Hon. Charles Jenkinson.

George Canning

1. George Canning
2. William Canning
3. Harriet de Burgh, Marchioness of Clanricarde

4. Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning – served as Conservative MP for 7 months and Governor-General and Viceroy of India

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (created Earl of Ripon)

1. Eleanor Robinson
2. George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon – served as MP for 7 years, Viceroy and Governor-General of India and Leader of the House of Lords

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1. Lt.-Gen. Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington – Conservative MP for 18 years
2. Maj.-Gen. Lord Charles Wellesley – Conservative MP for 13 years

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

1. illegitimate: Eliza Ellice

  • Robert Ellice
  • Georgiana Seymour
  • Eliza Brand, Viscountess Hampden of Glynne
  • Alexandra Harvey
  • General Sir Charles Ellice

2. stillborn daughter
3. Louisa Lambton, Countess of Durham

4. Lady Elizabeth Bulteel

  • Georgiana Mildmay
  • John Bulteel
  • Charles Bulteel
  • Mary Ponsonby
  • Louisa Baring, Lady Revelstoke of Membland

5. Lady Caroline Barrington

  • Mary West
  • Charles Barrington

6. Lady Georgiana Grey
7. Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey – served as Liberal MP for 18 years and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
8. General Sir Charles Grey – MP for 5 years

  • Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto
  • Lady Victoria Dawnay
  • Sybil Beauclerk, Duchess of St. Albans
  • Charles Grey
  • Capt. Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey – served as Liberal MP for 6 years and Governor General of Canada
  • Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim

9. Admiral Sir Frederick Grey
10. Mary Wood, Viscountess Halifax

11. William Grey
12. Admiral George Grey

  • Charles Grey
  • Mary Grey
  • Katherine Grey
  • Jane Wykeham-Musgrave
  • Henry Grey
  • Frederick Grey
  • Louisa Grey
  • George Grey
  • Francis Grey
  • Helen Grey
  • William Grey

13. Thomas Grey
14. John Grey

  • Mary Grey
  • Charles Grey
  • Frederick Grey

15. Sir Francis Grey
16. Henry Cavendish Grey
17. William George Grey

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

1. George Lamb
2. unnamed daughter

Both Viscount Melbourne's children predeceased him and he had no grandchildren.
The viscountcy was inherited by his brother The Rt. Hon. Frederick Lamb, 1st Baron Beauvale.

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet

1. Julia Child Villiers, Countess (of the Island) of Jersey

2. Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet – MP for 32 years

  • Victoria Barton
  • Sir Robert Peel, 4th Baronet

3. Sir Frederick Peel – Liberal MP for 14 years
4. Capt. Sir William Peel
5. Capt. John Peel
6. Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel – served as MP for 30 years and Speaker of the House of Commons

7. Eliza Stonor

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

1. Lady Georgiana Peel

  • Grace Weld Forester

2. Lady Victoria Villiers

  • Frances Duncombe
  • Gwendolen Villiers
  • Margaret Villiers
  • Dorothy Randolph
  • Mabel Villiers
  • Katharine Villiers
  • Henry Villiers
  • John Villiers
  • Sir Thomas Lister Villiers
  • Godfrey Villiers

3. John Russell, Viscount Amberley – Liberal MP for 2 years

4. George Russell
5. Francis Russell

  • Arthur Russell
  • Margaret Lloyd
  • Capt. John Russell

6. Lady Mary Russell

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

1. Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby – served as Conservative MP for 21 years and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
2. Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby – served as Conservative MP for 21 years and Governor General of Canada

3. Lady Emma Chetwynd-Talbot

  • Charles Chetwynd-Talbot
  • Cecil Eastwood
  • Edith Wigram
  • Lt.-Col. Frederick Chetwynd-Talbot
  • Walter Chetwynd-Talbot
  • Henry Chetwynd-Talbot
  • Gilbert Chetwynd-Talbot
  • Helen Chetwynd-Talbot

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

1. Lady Jane Hamilton-Gordon
2. Lady Charlotte Hamilton-Gordon
3. Lady Alice Hamilton-Gordon
4. unnamed son (Lord Haddo)
5. George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen – Liberal MP for 6 years

6. General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon – Liberal MP for 10 years

  • Victoria Marshall
  • Caroline Gordon
  • Lt.-Gen. Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
  • Francis Hamilton-Gordon
  • William Hamilton-Gordon
  • Ernest Hamilton-Gordon
  • Louisa Hamilton-Gordon
  • Kathleen Hamilton-Gordon
  • George Hamilton-Gordon

7. Lady Frances Hamilton-Gordon
8. Douglas Hamilton-Gordon

  • Douglas Hamilton-Gordon
  • George Hamilton-Gordon
  • William Hamilton-Gordon
  • Catherine Hamilton-Gordon
  • Ellen Hamilton-Gordon

9. Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore – served as Liberal MP for 3 years and held many colonial governorships

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

The Viscount Palmerston was married but hadn't got any legitimate children.
The viscountcy became extinct on his death.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

The Earl of Beaconsfield was married but childless.
The earldom became extinct on his death.

William Ewart Gladstone

1. William Henry Gladstone – Liberal MP for 20 years

2. Agnes Wickham

  • William G. Wickham
  • Lucy C. Wickham
  • Margaret Wickham

3. Stephen Gladstone

4. Catherine Gladstone
5. Mary Drew

  • Nancy Drew
  • Dorothy Parish

6. Helen Gladstone
7. Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden
8. Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone – served as Liberal MP for 30 years, Home Secretary and Governor-General of South Africa

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

1. Beatrix Palmer, Countess of Selborne

2. Lady Gwendolen Cecil
3. James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury – served as Conservative MP for 17 years and Leader of the House of Lords

4. Lord William Cecil – served as Bishop of Exeter

  • Lt. Randle Gascoyne-Cecil
  • Maj. Victor Gascoyne-Cecil
  • Capt. John Gascoyne-Cecil
  • Lt. Rupert Gascoyne-Cecil
  • Eve Benyon
  • Mary Manners, Lady Manners of Foston
  • Anne Gascoyne-Cecil

5. Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood – Conservative MP for 16 years
6. Lady Fanny Cecil
7. Col. Lord Edward Cecil

  • George Gascoyne-Cecil
  • Helen Hardinge, Lady Hardinge of Penhurst

8. Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood – Conservative MP 38 years

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

1. Lady Sybil Grant

  • Charles Grant

2. Margaret Crewe-Milnes, Marchioness of Crewe

3. Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery – Liberal MP for 4 years

4. Capt. Neil Primrose – Liberal MP for 7 years

Arthur Balfour (created Earl of Balfour)

The Earl of Balfour was unmarried and childless.
The earldom was inherited by his brother The Rt. Hon. Gerald Balfour.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was married but childless.

H. H. Asquith (created Earl of Oxford and Asquith)

1. Raymond Asquith

2. Herbert Asquith

  • John Asquith
  • Michael Asquith
  • Simon Asquith

3. Brig.-Gen. Arthur Asquith

  • Susan Boothby
  • Mary Rous, Countess of Stradbroke

4. Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury

5. Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone

  • Luke Asquith
  • Jane Asquith
  • Rose Stephenson
  • Paul Asquith

6. Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco

  • Priscilla Hodgson

7. Anthony Asquith

David Lloyd George (created Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor)

1. Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor

2. Mair Lloyd George
3. Lady Olwen Carey Evans

  • Margaret Barrett
  • Eluned Macmillan
  • Robert Evans
  • David Evans

4. Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby – served as Liberal MP for 29 years and Home Secretary

5. Lady Megan Lloyd George – MP for 31 years (Liberal and Labour)
6. illegitimate: Jennifer Longford

  • Ruth Longford
  • Catherine Longford
  • Philip Longford

Bonar Law

1. Isabel Sykes

  • Bonar Sykes

2. Catherine Archibald, Lady Archibald
3. Capt. James Law
4. Charles Law
5. Cmdr. Harrington Law
6. Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine – Conservative MP for 23 years

  • James Law, 2nd Baron Coleraine
  • Andrew Law

Stanley Baldwin (created Earl Baldwin of Bewdley)

1. Lady Diana Kemp-Welch
2. Lady Leonora Howard

  • Robin Howard
  • Kiloran Russell
  • Alexander Howard
  • Jill Lumsden

3. Lady Margaret Huntington-Whiteley

  • Herbert Huntington-Whiteley
  • Sir Hugo Huntington-Whiteley, 3rd Baronet
  • Lt.-Cmdr. John Huntington-Whiteley

4. Maj. Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley – Labour MP for 4 years
5. Lady Esther Baldwin
6. Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Ramsay MacDonald

1. Alister MacDonald
2. Malcolm MacDonald – served as Labour MP for 15 years and Governor-General of Kenya
3. Ishbel MacDonald
4. David MacDonald
5. Joan MacDonald
6. Shelia MacDonald

Neville Chamberlain

1. Dorothy Lloyd

  • Stephen J. Lloyd
  • Anne M. Lloyd

2. Francis Chamberlain

  • Francis Chamberlain

Sir Winston Churchill

1. Diana Churchill

2. Maj. Randolph Churchill – Conservative MP for 5 years

3. Sarah Touchet-Jesson, Lady Audley
4. Marigold Churchill
5. Mary Soames, Lady Soames

Clement Attlee (created Earl Attlee)

1. Lady Janet Shipton

  • Ann Zateslo

2. Lady Felicity Harwood

  • Penelope Robertson
  • Joanna Greene
  • Sally Camps
  • Richard Harwood

3. Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee

4. Lady Alison Davis

  • Jennifer Lochen
  • Tessa Dormon
  • Belinda Johnston

Sir Anthony Eden (created Earl of Avon)

1. Simon Eden
2. Robert Eden
3. Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon

Harold Macmillan (created Earl of Stockton)

1. Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden – served as Conservative MP for 27 years and Chief Secretary to the Treasury

2. Lady Caroline Faber

  • Anne Bernstein
  • Michael Faber
  • Mark Faber, cricketer
  • David Faber – Conservative MP for 9 years
  • James Faber

3. Lady Catherine Amery

  • Louise Amery
  • Theresa Boteler
  • Leopold Amery
  • Alexandra Hare

4. Sarah Heath

Sir Alec Douglas-Home (disclaimed 14th Earl of Home; created Baron Home of the Hirsel for life)

1. Lady Caroline Douglas-Home
2. Lady Meriel Darby

  • Catherine Darby
  • Matthew Darby

3. Lady Diana Murray

  • Fiona Shufflebotham
  • Rory Murray
  • Clare Flett

4. David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home

  • Lady Iona Hewitt
  • Lady Mary Douglas-Home
  • Michael Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass

Harold Wilson (created Baron Wilson of Rievaulx for life)

1. Robin Wilson

  • two daughters

2. Giles Wilson

Edward Heath (later knighted)

Sir Edward Heath was unmarried and childless.

James Callaghan (created Baron Callaghan of Cardiff for life)

1. Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington – served as Leader of the House of Lords

  • Tamsin Raikes
  • Alice Jay
  • Patrick Jay

2. Julia Hubbard

  • Tobin Hubbard
  • Joanna Hubbard
  • Tom Hubbard
  • Sam Hubbard

3. Michael Callaghan

  • Kate Callaghan
  • Sarah Callaghan
  • Joseph Callaghan

Margaret Thatcher (created Baroness Thatcher for life)

1. Carol Thatcher
2. Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet

  • Michael Thatcher
  • Amanda Thatcher

John Major (later knighted)

1. Elizabeth Salter
2. James Major

  • Harrison Major

Tony Blair

1. Euan Blair
2. Nicholas Blair

  • Iris Blair

3. Kathryn Blair
4. Leo Blair

Gordon Brown

1. Jennifer Brown
2. John Brown
3. James Brown

David Cameron

1. Ivan Cameron
2. Nancy Cameron
3. Arthur Cameron
4. Florence Cameron

Theresa May

Theresa May is married but childless.

Boris Johnson

1. Lara Johnson
2. Milo Johnson
3. Cassia Johnson
4. Theodore Johnson
5. Wilfred Johnson

  • The Peerage.
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