LEADERS OF THE LIBERAL PARTY (IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS)
10th December 1834 Lord John Russell
b. 18th August 1792, d. 28th May 1878
6th February 1855 Viscount Palmerston (Henry John Temple)
b. 20th October 1784, d. 18th October 1865
29th October 1865 William Ewart Gladstone
b. 29th December 1809, d. 19th May 1898
5th February 1875 Marquess of Hartington (Spencer Compton Cavendish)
b. 23rd July 1833, d. 24th March 1908
23rd April 1880 William Ewart Gladstone
(see above)
5th March 1894 Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt
b. 14th October 1827, d. 1st October 1904
6th February 1899 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
b. 7th September 1836, d. 22nd April 1908
30th April 1908 Herbert Henry Asquith (Earl of Oxford and Asquith)
b. 12th September 1852, d. 15th February 1928
14th October 1926 David Lloyd George
b. 17th January 1863, d. 26th March 1945
4th November 1931 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
b. 6th November 1870, d. 5th February 1963
26th November 1935 Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, Bt.
b. 22nd October 1890, d. 15th June 1970
2nd August 1945 Edward Clement Davies
b. 19th February 1884, d. 23th March 1962
5th November 1956 Joseph Grimond
b. 29th July 1913, d. 24th October 1993
18th January 1967 John Jeremy Thorpe
b. 29th April 1929
12th May 1976 Joseph Grimond (Acting Leader)
(see above)
7th July 1976 David Martin Scott Steel
b. 31st March 1938
28th July 1988 Jeremy John Durham Ashdown
b. 27th February 1941
9th August 1999 Charles Peter Kennedy
b. 25th November 1959
2nd March 2006 Walter Menzies Campbell
b. 22nd May 1941
Missed the new Guy out i have forgot his name. Give us your view, i think we better start from Joe Grimmond.