- Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution.
- John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
- Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 - 6 October 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom; William Ewart Gladstone described him as the most remarkable person he had ever met. A future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, …
- Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, OM, PC (born October 8, 1929 in Dewsbury, England), is a British politician and was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister - the first and thus far only person of Jewish parentage to do so (although Disraeli was baptised in the Anglican Church at 13).
- Edward Carson
Edward Carson, styled the Honourable, (17 February 1920 - 6 March 1987) was an English Conservative Party politician. He was the son of the Lord Carson, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. He was educated at Eton - as was his son (a barrister who lives in Henley) and two of his grandsons. He was the progeny of his father's second marriage - the first having been terminated by bereavement.
- Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar (1557/58 - 18 April 1636) was an English judge and politician. He was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. His father was Giulio Cesare Adelmare, an Italian physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes of Cesarini. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the University of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was made a doctor of civil law.
- Alec Douglas-Home
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (2 July 1903 - 9 October 1995) 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative (actually SUP) politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964.
- John Wilkes
John Wilkes was an English radical, journalist and politician. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters - rather than the House of Commons - to determine their representatives. In 1771 he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776 he introduced the first Bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament.
- James Callaghan
James Callaghan (born January 28, 1927) is an British Labour politician. He was educated at Manchester and London universities, and he worked as a Lecturer in Art at St John's College, Manchester, before entering Parliament. At the February 1974 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Middleton and Prestwich, and he served this constituency and its successor, Heywood and Middleton, until 1997.
- Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is a British politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. He was previously Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until it was abolished in 1986. After its abolition, he became Member of Parliament for Brent East, but was quoted as saying that being in the House of Commons was not enjoyable and made little impact there.
- Peter Robinson
The Rt. Hon. Peter David Robinson MP MLA PC (born December 29, 1948) is a Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament for East Belfast and Deputy Leader of the same party. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency, a councillor on Castlereagh Borough Council and is married to Iris Robinson, also an MP. After being elected as a councillor in Castlereagh, in Belfast's south-eastern suburbs in 1977, …
- William John
William John (6 October 1878 - 27 August 1955) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for thirty years. At the Rhondda West by-election, 1920, he was elected as MP for the safe Labour constituency of Rhondda West, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election. In Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government, he served from 1942 to 1944 as Comptroller of the Household (i.e. a Government whip), …
- Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader. His book, "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India," brought into the limelight the drain of India's wealth into Britain. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP.
- Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell (born 31 August 1938, Paisley) is a Scottish politician. He was educated in the town's Paisley Grammar School. He was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003. In the 1999 Scottish election, he stood as a constituency candidate in West Renfrewshire, where he finished second behind Labour's Trish Godman.
- John Taylor
John Taylor (23 December 1857 - 19 September 1936) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumbarton Burghs from 1918 to 1922. He was a Liberal, and in the British House of Commons a supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition government. He was replaced as MP by David Kirkwood.
- Henry Grattan
Henry Grattan (1789-16 July, 1859) was a Whig Member of Parliament representing Dublin City from 1826 to 1830 in the British House of Commons. From 1831 to 1852, he represented Meath. Grattan was a barrister who was called to the Irish Bar in 1810. Grattan was the son of the famous Irish orator and statesman, the Right Honourable Henry Grattan, …
- Peter Jackson
Peter Michael Jackson (born 14 October 1928) is a retired British Labour Party politician. At the 1966 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency in Derbyshire. He sat in the House of Commons for only four years, losing his seat at the 1970 general election, to the Conservative Spencer Le Marchant.
- Charles Pelham Villiers
Charles Pelham Villiers (January 3, 1802 - January 16, 1898) was a British lawyer and politician of the 19th century, and the House of Commons' longest serving Member of Parliament (MP). He was the son of Hon. George Villiers (1759-1827) and Theresa Parker, daughter of John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon. He was grandson of Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon and brother of the George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon.
- John Mitchel
John Mitchel was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading Member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation. He also became a public voice for the Southern American viewpoint in the United States in the 1850s and 1860s before ending up elected to the British House of Commons, only to be disqualified because he was a convicted felon.
- Bruce George
Bruce Thomas George (born June 1 1942) British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Walsall South. Bruce George was born in Wales during World War II and was educated at the Mountain Ash Grammar School and the University of Wales, Swansea where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in political theory and government. He finished his education at the University of Warwick where he earned a master's degree in comparative politics.
- Rhodri Morgan
Hywel Rhodri Morgan, PC AM (born 29 September 1939) is a Welsh politician; the Labour National Assembly for Wales Member for the constituency of Cardiff West; and the second and current First Minister for Wales.
- Charles Grey
Sir Charles Grey (March 15 1804 - March 31 1870) was a British army officer, member of the British House of Commons and political figure in Lower Canada. In later life, he served as private secretary to Prince Albert and later Queen Victoria. He was born in Northumberland, England in 1804, the son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. Grey joined the British Army as a sub-lieutenant in 1820 and commanded the 73rd Regiment from 1833 to 1842.
- John Peel
William John Peel, known after he was knighted in 1973 as Sir John Peel, was a British Conservative Party politician, and Member of Parliament for Leicester South East from 1957 to 1974. He attended Wellington College and Queens’ College, Cambridge. His previous career had been in the colonial service, surviving imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II, when he was stationed in Singapore, …
- Denis Macshane
Denis MacShane (born May 21, 1948, Glasgow) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Rotherham, and was the Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until the ministerial reshuffle that followed the 2005 general election. He first entered Parliament after a 1994 by-election caused by the death of Jimmy Boyce. He was born as Denis Matyjaszek, to an Irish mother and her Polish husband, …
- John Roberts
John Roberts (1835-24 February 1894), was a Welsh Member of Parliament. Roberts was the son of David Roberts. His father was born in Llanrwst, Wales, but moved to Liverpool at an early age, where he built up a successful timber business. He later settled in Abergele. Roberts constructed the mansion of Bryngwenallt in Abergele and also represented Flint in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1892. He died in February 1894.
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the first man to be given official use of the title 'Prime Minister'. Known as CB, he was a firm believer in free trade, Irish Home Rule and the improvement of social conditions. The son of the Lord Provost of Glasgow, he was educated at Glasgow High School and at Glasgow and Cambridge universities.
- Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 - 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605.
- Kim Howells
Dr Kim Scott Howells (born November 27, 1946 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) is a Labour politician in Wales, and member of Parliament for Pontypridd.
- Selwyn Lloyd
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn-Lloyd, was a British Conservative politician. Lloyd was educated at Fettes and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union, and was a Liberal Parliamentary candidate in the 1929 General Election. He served as a councillor on Hoylake Urban District Council 1932-40.
- Mike Gapes
Michael John "Mike" Gapes (born September 4 1952) is a British politician. He is the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Ilford South. Mike Gapes was born in Wanstead Hospital in the London Borough of Redbridge, the son of a postal worker, and educated locally at the Staples Road Infants' School in Loughton, Manford County Primary School in Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill County High School.
- John Baker
Sir John Baker (1488-1558) was an English politician, and served as a Chancellor of the Exchequer, having previously been Speaker of the English House of Commons. He kept a country estate at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent and was the grandfather of Sir Richard Baker, the sixteenth-century historian.
- Geoffrey Howe
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (born 20 December 1926), known until 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and finally Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister.
- James Bennett
James Bennett (18 December 1912 - 17 September 1984) was a Scottish Labour Party politician. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1961 at a by-election in 1961 in the Glasgow Bridgeton constituency, following the resignation of the sitting Labour (formerly ILP) MP James Carmichael. Bennett held the seat until its abolition at the February 1974 general election.
- Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949 in Wiltshire) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Islington North. He has been in the House of Commons since he won his seat at the 1983 general election. An old boy of Adams' Grammar School in Shropshire, he is a left-wing member of the Labour Party and is in the Socialist Campaign Group. He has a column in "The Morning Star". A long-time supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, …
- Peter de la Mare
Sir Peter de la Mare, (died c. 1387), was an English politician who is best remembered as the Speaker of the House of Commons during the Good Parliament of 1376. Before becoming speaker, de la Mare worked variously as a toll collector, Sheriff of Herefordshire, and as a steward to Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. It was probably his connection to Mortimer that earned him his position in Parliament.
- William Lenthall
William Lenthall, was an English politician of the Civil War period, Speaker of the House of Commons. The second son of William Lenthall of North Leigh in Oxfordshire, a descendant of an old Herefordshire family, he was born at Henley-on-Thames. He left Oxford without taking a degree in 1609, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1616, becoming a bencher in 1633. He represented Woodstock in the Short Parliament (April 1640), …
- Charles Taylor
Sir Charles Stuart Taylor Kt (10 April 1910 - 29 March 1989) was an English Conservative Party politician. In 1935, Taylor was elected as as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne in East Sussex, in an unopposed by-election on 29th March following the death of Conservative MP John Slater. He held the seat until his retirement from the House of Commons at the February 1974 general election, when he was succeeded by Ian Gow.
- Harbottle Grimston
Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet (January 27, 1603 - January 2, 1685) was an English politician, and son of Sir Harbottle Grimston, Bart. (d. 1648), born at Bradfield Hall, near Manningtree. Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he became a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, then recorder of Harwich and recorder of Colchester. As member for Colchester, Grimston sat in the Short Parliament of 1640, and he represented the same borough during the Long Parliament, …
- John Trevor
Sir John Trevor (1637-20 May 1717) was Speaker of the English House of Commons from 1685 to 1687 and from 1689 to 1695. The exact date of Sir John Trevor's birth is unrecorded. He was a grandson of Sir Edward Trevor. A native of Denbighshire and educated at Ruthin School, he was a partisan of James II and was deprived of his office on the accession of William III. In 1690, however, he once again returned to parliament as Speaker.