Appendix VI: First ministers and leaders of the House
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Available from Boydell and Brewer
First Ministers and leaders of the House of Commons
| Date | Administration | First Lord of the Treasury | Leader of the House of Commons |
| Sept. 1714 | Townshend | Earl of Halifax from Oct. | Robert Walpole (paymaster general) 1714 |
| Earl of Carlisle from May 1715 | |||
| Robert Walpole from Oct. 1715 | |||
| Dec. 1716 | Sunderland | Robert Walpole | Robert Walpole |
| James Stanhope, afterwards Visct. Stanhope, from Apr. 1717 | Joseph Addison (secretary of state, wardssouthern department) from Apr. 1717 | ||
| Earl of Sunderland from Mar. 1718 | James Craggs (secretary of state, southern department) from Mar. 1718 | ||
| Feb. 1721 | Sunderland-Townshend-Walpole | Earl of Sunderland | Robert Walpole (paymaster general) |
| Robert Walpole from Apr. 1721 | |||
| Apr. 1722 | Townshend-Walpole | Robert Walpole | Robert Walpole |
| May 1730 | Walpole | Sir Robert Walpole | Sir Robert Walpole |
| Feb. 1742 | Carteret | Earl of Wilmington | Henry Pelham (paymaster general) |
| Henry Pelham from Aug.1743 | |||
| Dec. 1744 | Pelham | Henry Pelham | Henry Pelham |
