Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center, Jonathan Davidson, M.D., is the author of several books and journal articles. He lives in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

The Prime Ministers

Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) (1721-1745)

Earl of Wilmington (1674-1743) (1742-1743)

Henry Pelham (1694-1754) (1743-1754)

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768) (1754-1756; 1757-1762)

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720-1764) (1756-1757)

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) (1762-1763)

George Grenville (1712-1770) (1763-1765)

Charles Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782) (1765-1766; 1782)

William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) (1766-1768)

Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811) (1768-1770)

Lord North (1732-1792) (1770-1782)

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805) (1782-1783)

William Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809) (1783; 1807-1809)

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) (1783-1801; 1804-1806)

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844) (1801-1804)

William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834) (1806-1807)

Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) (1809-1812)

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828) (1812-1827)

George Canning (1770-1827) (1827)

Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich, Earl of Ripon (1782-1859) (1827-1828)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) (1828-1830; 1834)

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1825) (1830-1834)

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848) (1834; 1835-1841)

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) (1834-1835; 1841-1846)

Lord John Russell (1792-1878) (1846-1852; 1865-1866)

Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869) (1852; 1858-1859; 1866-1868)

George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860) (1852-1855)

Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) (1855-1858; 1859-1865)

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beacons¿eld (1804-1881) (1868; 1874-1880)

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) (1868-1874; 1880-1885; 1886; 1892-1894)

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) (1885-1886; 1886-1892; 1895-1902)

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929) (1894-1895)

Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930) (1902-1905)

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908) (1905-1908)

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928) (1908-1916)

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl of Dwyfor (1863-1945) (1916-1922)

Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923) (1922-1923)

Stanley Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947)

(1923-1924; 1924-1929; 1935-1937)

James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) (1924; 1929-1935)

Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) (1937-1940)

Sir Winston Churchill (1875-1965) (1940-1945; 1951-1955)

Clement Attlee, 1st Earl of Prestwood (1883-1967) (1945-1951)

Sir Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977) (1955-1957)

Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986) (1957-1963)

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Home of the Hirsel (1903-1995) (1963-1967)

Harold Wilson, Lord Wilson of Rievaulx (1916-1995) (1964-1970; 1974-1976)

Sir Edward Heath (1916-2005) (1970-1974)

James Callaghan, Lord Callaghan of Cardiff (1912-2005) (1976-1979)

Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (1925-) (1979-1990)

Sir John Major (1943-) (1990-1997)

Anthony (Tony) Blair (1953-) (1997-2007)

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables of Psychiatric Issues, by Prime Minister

Notes

Bibliography

Index