British Prime Ministers

A miscellaneous selection of signed pieces, cards and typed letters signed by various British Prime Ministers, and one Cabinet minister, comprising Viscount Melbourne (Prime Minister 1834, 1835-41), Viscount Palmerston (Prime Minister 1855-58, 1859-65), Arthur James Balfour (Prime Minister 1902-05), Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister 1957-63), Harold Wilson (Prime Minister 1964-70, 1974-76), Edward Heath (Prime Minister 1970-74; discussing the Party Government system at Westminster, ‘Seldom in peace-time history has resort had to be made to coalition, and only then when circumstances forced the Prime Minister of the day to approach the other Party leaders to join him in a national government’), Tony Blair (Prime Minister 1997-2007) and Peter Walker (served in various Cabinet posts under Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher), v.s. (8)