The following UK Prime Ministers attended university at either Oxford or Cambridge. Thus, of the 57 Prime Ministers to date, 43 studied at Oxbridge, 11 did not go to university (most recently Winston Churchill and John Major), and only 3, Earl Russell, Neville Chamberlain, and Gordon Brown, went to other universities (Edinburgh, Birmingham and Edinburgh respectively).
14 attended Cambridge (including 6 at Trinity), and 28 attended Oxford (including 14 at Christ Church). For more info on UK Prime Ministers, try Wikipedia.
PM | PM dates | College |
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Robert Walpole | 1721-1742 | King's, Cambridge |
Earl of Wilmington | 1742-1743 | Trinity, Oxford |
Henry Pelham | 1743-1746 | Hart Hall, Oxford |
Earl of Bath | 1746 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Duke of Newcastle | 1754-1756 | Clare, Cambridge |
George Grenville | 1763-1765 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Marquess of Rockingham | 1765-1766 1782 | St John's, Cambridge |
Earl of Chatham | 1766-1768 | Trinity, Oxford |
Duke of Grafton | 1768-1770 | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
Lord North | 1770-1782 | Trinity, Oxford |
Earl of Shelburne | 1782-1783 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Duke of Portland | 1783 1807-1809 | Christ Church, Oxford |
William Pitt | 1783-1801 1804-1806 | Pembroke, Cambridge |
Henry Addington | 1801-1804 | Brasenose, Oxford |
Baron Grenville | 1806-1807 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Spencer Perceval | 1809-1812 | Trinity, Cambridge |
Earl of Liverpool | 1812-1827 | Christ Church, Oxford |
George Canning | 1827 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Viscount Goderich | 1827-1828 | St John's, Cambridge |
Earl Grey | 1830-1834 | Trinity, Cambridge |
Viscount Melbourne | 1834 | Trinity, Cambridge |
Robert Peel | 1841-1846 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Earl of Derby | 1852 1858-1859 1866-1868 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Earl of Aberdeen | 1852-1855 | St John's, Cambridge |
Viscount Palmerston | 1855-1858 1859-1865 | St John's, Cambridge |
William Gladstone | 1868-1874 1880-1885 1886 1892-1894 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Marquess of Salisbury | 1885-1886 1886-1892 1895-1902 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Earl of Rosebery | 1894-1895 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Arthur Balfour | 1902-1905 | Trinity, Cambridge |
Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 1905-1908 | Trinity, Cambridge |
Herbert Asquith | 1908-1916 | Balliol, Oxford |
Stanley Baldwin | 1923-1924 1924-1929 1935-1937 | Trinity, Cambridge |
Clement Atlee | 1945-1951 | University, Oxford |
Anthony Eden | 1955-1957 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Harold Macmillan | 1957-1963 | Balliol, Oxford |
Alec Douglas-Home | 1963-1964 | Christ Church, Oxford |
Harold Wilson | 1964-1970 1974-1976 | Jesus, Oxford |
Edward Heath | 1970-1974 | Balliol, Oxford |
Margaret Thatcher | 1979-1990 | Somerville, Oxford |
Tony Blair | 1997-2007 | St John's, Oxford |
David Cameron | 2010-2016 | Brasenose, Oxford |
Theresa May | 2016-2019 | St Hugh's, Oxford |
Boris Johnson | 2019- | Balliol, Oxford |