List of parliaments of Great Britain explained

This is a listing of sessions of the Parliament of Great Britain, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons of Great Britain for each session, and the list of members of the House.

The sessions are numbered from the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. For later Westminster parliaments, see List of parliaments of the United Kingdom, and for earlier ones, see List of parliaments of England and List of parliaments of Scotland.

Monarch	Number	Start date	Election	Members	First Lord(s) of the Treasury	Party
Anne	1st	1707	none - co-opted	MPs
	2nd	1708	election	MPs		Whig
	3rd	1710	election	MPs		Tory
	4th	1713	election	MPs		Tory
George I	5th	1715	election	MPs		Whig
	6th	1722	election	MPs	Robert Walpole	Whig
George II	7th	1727	election	MPs	Robert Walpole	Whig
	8th	1734	election	MPs	Robert Walpole	Whig
	9th	1741	election	MPs	Robert Walpole Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington Henry Pelham	Whig
	10th	1747	election	MPs	Henry Pelham	Whig
	11th	1754	election	MPs	Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire Duke of Newcastle	Whig
George III	12th	1761	election	MPs	Duke of Newcastle John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute George Grenville Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham	Whig
	13th	1768	election	MPs	Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton Frederick North, Lord North	Whig
	14th	1774	election	MPs	Lord North	Tory
	15th	1780	election	MPs	Lord North Marquess of Rockingham William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Pitt the Younger	Tory
	16th	1784	election	MPs	William Pitt the Younger	Tory
	17th	1790	election	MPs	William Pitt the Younger	Tory
	18th	1796	election	MPs	William Pitt the Younger Henry Addington	Tory

See also

• Duration of English parliaments before 1660
• Duration of English, British and United Kingdom parliaments from 1660
• List of parliaments of England
• List of parliaments of Scotland
• List of parliaments of the United Kingdom
• List of British governments

External links

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807: From the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland in 1807, Volume 1, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by J. Chalmers & Co., 1807; (PDF)