Find out more about the greatest 18th Century British Leaders, including George III of the United Kingdom, Benedict Arnold, Thomas Paine, William Wilberforce and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
George III of the United Kingdom04 June 1738
King
Thomas Paine29 January 1737
Founding Father of the United States
Benedict Arnold14 January 1741
American Revolutionary War General
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington01 May 1769
Former First Lord of the Treasury of the United
Charles Edward Stuart31 December 1720
Military Leader
John Wesley17 June 1703
Anglican Cleric and Christian Theologian
William Pitt the Younger28 May 1759
Youngest Prime Minister of Britain
William Wilberforce24 August 1759
Abolitionist
Robert Peel05 February 1788
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Clive25 September 1725
British Military Officer
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey13 March 1764
Former Prime Minister of United Kingdom
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough26 May 1650
Military Leader
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis31 December 1738
Former Governor-General of India
William Bligh09 September 1754
Military Leader
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham15 November 1708
The Great Commoner
John Graves Simcoe25 February 1752
First Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany16 August 1763
Duke of York and Albany
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
George Canning11 April 1770
Former British Prime Minister
John Wilkes17 October 1725
English journalist
Horatio Nelson29 September 1758
Admiral
Lord North13 April 1732
Feargus OConnor18 July 1794
Chartist Leader
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston20 October 1784
Politician
George Whitefield16 December 1714
Evangelist
Spencer Perceval01 November 1762
Politician, Lawyer
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald14 December 1775
Politician, Officer
James Wolfe02 January 1727
Officer
Lord William Bentinck14 September 1774
Former Governor-General of India
Thomas Gage1721 AD
Military Officer
Arthur Phillip11 October 1738
Navy officer
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool07 June 1770
Politician
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Richard Henry Lee20 January 1732
Politician, Judge
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland14 April 1738
Politician
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh18 June 1769
Statesman
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst29 January 1717
Colonial administrator, Military personnel
Isaac Brock06 October 1769
Officer
George Grenville14 October 1712
Politician
Lachlan Macquarie31 January 1762
Army officer
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth30 May 1757
Politician
Ann Lee29 February 1736
Religious leader
Henry Pelham25 September 1694
Politician
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville25 October 1759
Former British Prime Minister
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat05 January 1667
Politician
Button Gwinnett10 April 1735
Representative of Georgia to the Continental
Titus Oates15 September 1649
English priest
Charles James Napier10 August 1782
Officer
Edward Rutledge23 November 1749
Politician
Duke of Wellington01 May 1769
Thomas McKean19 March 1734
Lawyer, Politician, Judge
William Cobbett09 March 1763
Journalist
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester03 September 1724
William Huskisson11 March 1770
Statesman
Francis Asbury20 August 1745
Bishop
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde20 October 1792
Officer, Politician
Frederick Marryat10 July 1792
Naval officer
William Floyd17 December 1734
Politician
Mountstuart Elphinstone06 October 1779
Statesman
John Byron08 November 1723
Navy officer
Oliver Wolcott20 November 1726
Politician
George Clymer16 March 1739
Politician
Edward Gibbon Wakefield20 March 1796
British colonial administrator
Francis Lightfoot Lee14 October 1734
Politician
Lewis Morris08 April 1726
Politician
Philip Livingston15 January 1716
Merchant, Politician
Arthur Middleton26 June 1742
Politician
William Paca31 October 1740
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
William Whipple14 January 1730
Politician, Officer
Abraham Clark15 February 1726
Politician, Lawyer
Joseph Hewes23 January 1730
Politician
Thomas Lynch Jr.05 August 1749
Politician
John Moore13 November 1761
officer, politician
Sir Edmund Andros06 December 1637
Colonial official
Henry Clinton16 April 1730
Officer
Robert Morrison05 January 1782
lexicographer, linguist, translator, writer
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury26 February 1671
Politician
Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham13 May 1730
George William Frederick04 June 1738
James Butler, 2nd duke of Ormonde29 April 1665
Statesman
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley20 June 1760
Politician
John Stuart, Earl of Bute25 May 1713
Stephen Hopkins (Politician)07 March 1707
William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham15 November 1708