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    How many British prime ministers have been knighted, and please distinguish as to before or after they stopped serving as prime minister?

    Question #40120. Asked by Hamlet.. (Oct 20 03 9:31 AM)


    ajdale

    		According to Downing Street's official website,
    http://www.number-10.gov.uk

    The answer is six.
    Sir Robert Walpole
    Sir Robert Peel
    Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
    Sir Winston Churchill
    Sir Anthony Eden
    Sir Alec Douglas-Home

    I'm pretty sure they all had their knighthoods before they became PM as there's a tendancy for retired statesmen to be elevated to the peerage rather than be knighted. Except Alec Douglas-Home who renounced his peerage to become PM.

    I wonder if Sir Tony Blair will be the next...

    Oct 20 03, 5:38 PM
    bloomsby

    		On retiring, a Prime Minister is in practice entitled to a knighthood ... Btw, Robert Peel inherited his father's baronetcy in 1830. Surely, he didn't have a knighthood in addition?

    Oct 20 03, 8:23 PM

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