Speakers of the House of Commons

Name all the Speakers of the UK House of Commons since the Acts of Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_House_of_Commons

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Years	Party	Speaker
1707-08	Independent	John Smith
1708-10	Independent	Richard Onslow
1710-13	Independent	William Bromsley
1714-15	Independent	Thomas Hanmer
1715-27	Independent	Spencer Compton
1728-61	Independent	Arthur Onslow
1761-70	Independent	John Cust
1770-80	Independent	Fletcher Norton
1780-89	Independent	Charles Wolfram Cornwall
1789	Independent	William Wyndham Grenville
1789-01	Tory	Henry Addington
1801-02	Tory	John Mitford
1802-17	Tory	Charles Abbot
1817-35	Tory	Charles Manners-Sutton
1835-39	Whig	James Abercromby
1839-57	Whig	Charles Shaw-Lefevre
1857-72	Liberal	John Evelyn Denison

Years	Party	Speaker
1872-84	Liberal	Henry Brand
1884-95	Liberal	Arthur Peel
1895-05	Liberal	William Court Gully
1905-21	Conservative	James Lowther
1921-28	Liberal	John Henry Whitley
1928-43	Conservative	Edward FitzRoy
1943-51	Conservative	Douglas Clifton Brown
1951-59	Conservative	William Morrison
1959-65	Conservative	Harry Hylton-Foster
1965-71	Labour	Horace King
1971-76	Conservative	Selwyn Lloyd
1976-83	Labour	George Thomas
1983-92	Conservative	Bernard Weatherill
1992-00	Labour	Betty Boothroyd
2000-09	Labour	Michael Martin
2009-19	Conservative	John Bercow
2019-	Labour	Lindsay Hoyle