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| 1824 | Stanley, Edward |  |
| 30th Mar London Maiden speech on the Manchester Gas Light Bill |
| 1827 | Temple, Henry John |  |
| London Makes a speech in the Commons supporting flogging in the Army |
| 1854 | Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot |  |
| 7th April London Makes Maiden Speech in Parliament agaist the 2nd Reading of the Oxford University Bill |
| 1886 | Churchill, Randolph |  |
| 22nd Feb London Gives a militant speech to encourage Ulster Protestants in Belfast |
| 2nd Oct Dartford Promises wide-ranging reforms |
| 1886 | Spencer-Churchill, Randolph Henry |  |
| 22nd Feb London Gives a militant speech to encourage Ulster Protestants in Belfast |
| 2nd Oct Dartford Promises wide-ranging reforms |
| 1901 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 18th Feb London Churchill makes his maiden speech in the House of Commons |
| 1903 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 24th Feb London Speaks in the Commons against the government's proposed increase in military spending |
| 25th May Hoxton Supports Free Trade in answer to Chamberlain's speech in favour of Imperial Preference |
| 27th May London Attacks his party's proposals to increase military expenditure |
| 28th May London Rebukes Chamberlains speech on Imperial Preference in the Commons |
| 1905 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 13th May Manchester Describes the Conservative Party as a party of "great vested interests" |
| 4th June Manchester Supports Free Trade while speaking at a mass meeting in Manchester |
| 10th Dec Manchester Speaks against the persecution of Jews in Russia at the Palace Theatre Manchester |
| 1908 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| Swansea Ridicules the idea of Anglo-German conflict & calls for a reduction of naval building |
| 1909 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 6th Sep Leicester Speaks against the Lords ' plan to vote against the Budget |
| 14th Nov Bristol Speaks against the Lords ' plan to vote against the Budget |
| 1910 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 9th Jan Leven Calls the Lords an "anachronistc assembly" & wants to "finish it off for ever" |
| 1911 | Lloyd George, David |  |
| 21st July The Germans call Lloyd-George's Mansion House speech, "warning bordering on menace" |
| 1914 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 9th Nov Guildhall "Business carried on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe" |
| 1916 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 7th Mar London Urges the First Lord of the Admiralty to recall Lord Fisher as First Sea Lord |
| 1922 | Balfour, Arthur James |  |
| Delivers the Gifford lectures on "Theism & Thought" |
| o other British PM is intelectually as highly regarded |
| 1925 | MacMillan, Maurice Harold |  |
| London Maiden Speech, supports the budget introducing contributory pensions & reduced inc tax |
| 1939 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 10th Mar Defends his opposition to appeasement to his constituents |
| 1940 | Anderson, John |  |
| London Criticizes Churchill for "interfering with everybody's department" |
| 1940 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 18th Feb London Speaks at the Guildhall praising the warships opposing the Graf Spee |
| 13th May London In the Commons says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" |
| 4th June Dunkirk "We shall fight on the beaches...... we shall never surrender" |
| 1941 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 9th Feb Churchill says in a speech, "Give us the tools and we will finish the job" |
| 1942 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 10th Nov London "it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning" |
| 1943 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 21st Mar London Makes a public broadcast outlining plans for a post-war Britain |
| 1946 | Callaghan, James |  |
| 20th Aug London Makes his maiden speech in Parliament |
| 1946 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 5th Mar Fulton Makes his famous "iron curtain" speech at Fulton, Missouri, USA |
| 19th Sep Zurich Gives a speech at the University of Zrich calling for a "United States of Europe", similar to the United States of America |
| 1946 | MacMillan, Maurice Harold |  |
| London Says Russia is becoming isolationist within a cordon sanitaire of dependent states |
| 1947 | Elizabeth II |  |
| Makes a "dedication" speech to the Empire on her 21st birthday from Sth Africa |
| 1956 | Wilson, James Harold |  |
| Birmingham Makes a speech condeming Anglo-French intervention, to his relief it is well received |
| 1960 | MacMillan, Maurice Harold |  |
| 3rd Feb Cape Town In a speech to MPs in the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, Mr Macmillan spoke of the "wind of change" blowing through the continent of Africa |
| 3rd Feb Cape Town Macmillan's "wind of change" speech became a historical landmark, the first sign that the British government accepted that the days of Empire were over |
| 1960 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| 5th Feb London Makes maiden speech in Parliament |
| 1963 | Benn, Anthony Wedgewood |  |
| Appointed Harold Wilson's speech writer & adviser |
| 1966 | Wilson, James Harold |  |
| 21st April London The Queen's Speech includes the nationalization of steel |
| 1968 | Powell, John Enoch |  |
| Wolverhampton "Rivers of blood" speech, criticising immigration policies of the Labour government |
| Wolverhampton Says in 20 yrs time the "black man will have the whip hand" |
| 1970 | Heath, Edward Richard George |  |
| June Selsdon End of the Butskellite consensus |
| 1970 | Tebbit, Norman |  |
| 24th Nov London Makes maiden speech on the 2nd reading of the Civil Aviation Bill |
| 1976 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| 31st Jan London Refers to herself as the "Iron Lady" after an article in the Soviet Red Star |
| 1977 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| 14th Oct Brighton Tells Callaghan to, "keep taking the tablets", after Peter Jay compares him to Moses |
| 1979 | Major, John Roy |  |
| 13th June London Makes maiden speech in the House of Commons |
| 1980 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| 10th Oct Brighton Tells conference, "the lady's not for turning" |
| 1987 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| 31st Oct Quoted in the press saying, "there is no such thing as society" |
| 1988 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| Bruges Makes her Bruges speech in which she recalls how Britain stood alone in 1940 |
| 1995 | Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton |  |
| 25th April Taunts Prime Minister John Major at PMQs saying I lead my party he follows his |