English Australian - Prime Ministers of English Descent

Prime Ministers of English Descent

Further information: List of Prime Ministers of Australia Alfred Deakin Joseph Cook Earle Page John Howard

Many of the Prime Ministers of Australia have English ancestry. The extent of English Heritage varies, with earlier Prime Ministers being predominantly of English stock.

  1. Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister 1901–1903 (English parents.)
  2. Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister 1903–1904, 1905–08, 1909–10 (English parents.)
  3. Sir Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister 1913–14 (Born in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England.)
  4. Earle Christmas Grafton Page, 11th Prime Minister 1939 (Father from London, England.)
  5. Harold Edward Holt, 17th Prime Minister 1966–67
  6. Sir John Grey Gorton, 19th Prime Minister 1968–71 (English father.)
  7. Edward Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister 1972–75 (English descent.)
  8. Robert James Lee Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister 1983-91 (English descent.)
  9. John Winston Howard, 25th Prime Minister 1996–2007
  10. Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister 2007–10 (His 4th great-grandparents, convicts Thomas Rudd from London and Mary Cable from Essex, England.)


See also:

  • Anglo-Africans

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