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The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the mid 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal leaders 1859–1988

Liberal Leaders in the House of Lords, 1859–1988

• Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1859–1865
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1865–1868
• Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1868–1891
• John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1891–1894
• Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1894–1896
• John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1896–1902
• John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer 1902–1905
• George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1905–1908
• Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1908–1923
• Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1923–1924
• William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1924–1931
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading 1931–1936
• Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1936–1944
• Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1944–1955
• Philip Rea, 2nd Baron Rea 1955–1967
• Frank Byers, Baron Byers 1967–1984
• Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear 1984–1988

Liberal Leaders in the House of Commons, 1859–1916

• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859–1865
• William Ewart Gladstone 1865–1875
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1875–1880
• William Ewart Gladstone 1880–1894
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894–1898
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899–1908
• Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1925) 1908–1916

Leaders of the Liberal Party, 1916–1988

• Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1925) 1916–1926
  • Donald Maclean, Acting Leader 1919–1920
• David Lloyd George 1926–1931
• Sir Herbert Samuel 1931–1935
• Sir Archibald Sinclair 1935–1945
• Clement Davies 1945–1956
• Jo Grimond 1956–1967
• Jeremy Thorpe 1967–1976
• Jo Grimond 1976 (Acting Leader)
• David Steel 1976–1988

See also

• List of Liberal Party (UK) MPs
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
• Liberalism in the United Kingdom
• List of United Kingdom Liberal Party Leaders
• List of Liberal Chief Whips
• President of the Liberal Party
• Politics of the United Kingdom
• Liberalism
• List of liberal theorists
• List of UK Liberal Party general election manifestos
• Chronology of UK political parties in power