List of British Prime Ministers by nicknames
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This is a list of British Prime Ministers by their nicknames.
| Prime Minister | Nicknames |
|---|---|
| Gordon Brown | "Incapability Brown"[1] "The Big Clunking Fist"[2] |
| Tony Blair | "Bambi"[8] "Poodle"[9] "Bliar"[10] "The Vicar"[11] |
| John Major | "The Grey Man of Politics"[12] |
| Margaret Thatcher | "The Iron Lady"[13] "The Grocer's Daughter"[14] "Maggie" "Milk Snatcher"[15] "The Great She-Elephant"[16] |
| James Callaghan | "Big Jim" "Sunny Jim"[17] |
| Edward Heath | "Grocer Heath" |
| Harold Wilson | "Wislon", "Wilsundra", "Wislard" |
| Alec Douglas-Home | "Baillie Vass" |
| Harold Macmillan | "Supermac" "Mac the Knife"[18] |
| Anthony Eden | |
| Clement Attlee | "Clem"[19] |
| Winston Churchill | "Winnie"[20] "(British) Bulldog"[21] |
| Neville Chamberlain | "The Coroner"[22] |
| Ramsay MacDonald | "Lucifer of the Left" |
| Stanley Baldwin | |
| Andrew Bonar Law | "The Unknown Prime Minister"[23] |
| David Lloyd George | "The Welsh Wizard" "The Man Who Won The War"[24] "The Welsh Goat"[25] |
| Herbert Henry Asquith | "The Sledgehammer"[26] "Squiffy"[27] |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | "CB"[28] |
| Arthur Balfour | "Pretty Fanny"[29], "Bloody Balfour"[30] |
| Earl of Rosebery | |
| Marquess of Salisbury | |
| William Ewart Gladstone | "Grand Old Man" "The People's William"[31] |
| Benjamin Disraeli | "Dizzy"[32] |
| Viscount Palmerston | "Pam"
"Lord Cupid" |
| Earl of Derby | "Scorpion Stanley" "The Rupert of Debate"[34] |
| Earl Russell | "Finality Jack" "The Widow's Mite"[35] |
| Robert Peel | "Orange Peel"[36] |
| Viscount Melbourne | |
| Earl Grey | |
| Duke of Wellington | "The Iron Duke" "Europe's Liberator" "Saviour of the Nations"[37] |
| Viscount Goderich | "Prosperity Robinson" "Goody Goderich" "The Blubberer"[38] |
| George Canning | "The Cicero of the British Senate" "The Zany of Debate"[39] |
| Earl of Liverpool | |
| Spencer Perceval | "Little P"[40] |
| William Grenville | "Bogey"[41] |
| Viscount Sidmouth | "The Doctor"[42] |
| William Pitt | "Pitt the Younger"[43] |
| Duke of Portland | |
| Earl of Shelburne | "Malagrida" "The Jesuit in Berkerly Square"[44] |
| Lord North | "Boreas" (the north wind) "Lord-deputy North"[45] |
| Duke of Grafton | "Royal Oak" "The Turf Macaroni"[46] |
| Earl of Chatham | "The Great Commoner"[47] |
| Marquess of Rockingham | |
| George Grenville | "Gentle Shepherd"[48] |
| Earl of Bute | "Jack Boot"[49] |
| Duke of Devonshire | |
| Duke of Newcastle | "Hubble-Bubble"[50] |
| Henry Pelham | "King Henry the Ninth"[51] |
| Earl of Wilmington | |
| Robert Walpole | "Sir Bluestring" "Screen-Master General"[52] |
[edit] References
- ^
As seen on Bremner, Bird and Fortune TV Show - ^ Hansard, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 453, col. 29 (15 November 2006)
- ^ Used in relation to Brown not calling an election in 2007 after previously suggesting he would. 'Bottler Brown' News 24 (2007-10-07)
- ^ Often sarcastically used by Andrew Neil on This Week in relation to Lord Turnbull's description of Brown as a man who operates with "Stalinist ruthlessness" BBC - Brown accused of 'ruthlessness'
- ^ Also used by Lord Turnbull [1]
- ^ [2] Used by Terry Wogan and the TOGs, normally followed by Wogan saying "Never a frown with Golden Brown", a reference to the song "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers.
- ^ BBC - Brown accused of 'ruthlessness'
- ^ From Bambi to Bliar The Economist
- ^ Blair battles "poodle" jibes BBC News
- ^ From Bambi to Bliar The Economist
- ^ Private eye (see Prime Minister parodies (Private Eye)#Tony Blair: St Albion Parish News)
- ^ John Major - The grey man of British politics?
- ^ No. 10 biog - Margaret Thatcher
- ^ Margaret Thatcher: Vol 1. The Grocer's Daughter
- ^ BBC NEWS | In Depth | UK Confidential | The truth about Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher
- ^ John Rentoul: Blair the betrayed: Labour will be oh-so-sorry when he's gone - John Rentoul, Commentators - Independent.co.uk
- ^ No. 10 biog - James Callaghan
- ^ No. 10 biog - Harold Macmillan
- ^ No. 10 biog - Clement Richard Attlee
- ^ No. 10 biog - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- ^ journal26.indd
- ^ No. 10 biog - Neville Chamberlain
- ^ No. 10 biog - Andrew Bonar Law
- ^ No. 10 biog - David Lloyd George
- ^ The first rule of the politician's wife should be: Never leave your husband on his own - Telegraph
- ^ No. 10 biog - Herbert Henry Asquith
- ^ The politics of drinking in power, BBC News online.
- ^ No. 10 biog - Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- ^ [3]
- ^ No. 10 biog - Arthur James Balfour
- ^ No. 10 biog - William Ewart Gladstone
- ^ No. 10 biog - Benjamin Disraeli
- ^ No. 10 biog - Viscount Palmerston
- ^ No. 10 biog - The Earl of Derby
- ^ No. 10 biog - Earl Russell
- ^ No. 10 biog - Sir Robert Peel
- ^ No. 10 biog - Arthur Wellesley
- ^ No. 10 biog - Frederick Robinson
- ^ No. 10 biog - George Canning
- ^ No. 10 biog - Spencer Perceval
- ^ No. 10 biog - William Wyndam Grenville
- ^ No. 10 biog - Henry Addington
- ^ No. 10 biog - William Pitt 'The Younger'
- ^ No. 10 biog - William Petty
- ^ No. 10 biog - Lord North
- ^ No. 10 biog - Augustus Henry Fitzroy
- ^ No. 10 biog - The Earl of Chatham
- ^ No. 10 biog - George Grenville
- ^ No. 10 biog - John Stuart
- ^ No. 10 biog - Thomas Pelham-Holles
- ^ No. 10 biog - Henry Pelham
- ^ No. 10 biog - Sir Robert Walpole
