Some notable hobbies of British Prime Ministers, as stated on the Number 10 website
Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 25 May, 2011 13:35
- Robert Walpole: collecting paintings, brewing beer, hunting and beagling
- Lord North: enjoyed dancing in his youth
- Spencer Perceval: playing games with his children, the study of Biblical prophecy
- George Canning: theatre, writing poetry, practical jokes and parlour games
- Duke of Wellington: inventing and buying gadgets, reading, buying art
- Benjamin Disraeli: gourmet food, rare books, trees, writing novels
- William Ewart Gladstone: reading, singing, collecting paintings and porcelain, chopping down trees
- Marquess of Salisbury: reading, chemistry, the study of electricity, riding a tricycle
- Winston Churchill: painting, polo, board games
- Sir Alec Douglas-Home: shooting, fishing and flower arranging
- Margaret Thatcher: music, art, opera and reading
- Tony Blair: spending time with his children, reading (mainly literary classics and biographies), watching thrillers, swimming, playing tennis and playing guitar
- Gordon Brown: football
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