This is a listing of sessions of the Parliament of Great Britain , tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons of Great Britain for each session, and the list of members of the House.
The sessions are numbered from the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain . For later Westminster parliaments , see List of parliaments of the United Kingdom , and for earlier ones, see List of parliaments of England and List of parliaments of Scotland .
Monarch
Number
Start date
Election
Members
First Lord(s) of the Treasury
Party
Anne
1st
1707
none - co-opted
MPs
2nd
1708
election
MPs
Whig
3rd
1710
election
MPs
Tory
4th
1713
election
MPs
Tory
George I
5th
1715
election
MPs
Whig
6th
1722
election
MPs
Robert Walpole
Whig
George II
7th
1727
election
MPs
Robert Walpole
Whig
8th
1734
election
MPs
Robert Walpole
Whig
9th
1741
election
MPs
Robert Walpole Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington Henry Pelham
Whig
10th
1747
election
MPs
Henry Pelham
Whig
11th
1754
election
MPs
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire Duke of Newcastle
Whig
George III
12th
1761
election
MPs
Duke of Newcastle John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute George Grenville Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Whig
13th
1768
election
MPs
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton Frederick North, Lord North
Whig
14th
1774
election
MPs
Lord North
Tory
15th
1780
election
MPs
Lord North Marquess of Rockingham William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Pitt the Younger
Tory
16th
1784
election
MPs
William Pitt the Younger
Tory
17th
1790
election
MPs
William Pitt the Younger
Tory
18th
1796
election
MPs
William Pitt the Younger Henry Addington
Tory
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807: From the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland in 1807 , Volume 1, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by J. Chalmers & Co., 1807; Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament at Google Books (PDF )