- John Hutton
John Matthew Patrick Hutton (born 6 May 1955, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria and the current Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. John Hutton was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an active member of the University Conservative Association. - Hilary Armstrong
Born in Sunderland, Hilary lives in Crook, County Durham and is married to Professor Paul Corrigan . Before entering parliament Hilary spent time overseas as a VSO volunteer, teaching at a Girls School in Kenya. Returning to Britain, Hilary turned to Social and Community work in Southwick, Sunderland and in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne. Hilary was first elected to parliament in General Election of 1987. - Douglas Alexander
Douglas Garven Alexander (born October 26, 1967) is a British politician who is Secretary of State for International Development. He is the Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Paisley and Renfrewshire South representing the Labour Party. On 24 June 2007 Gordon Brown announced he would be appointed as his general election coordinator. - Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband (born December 24, 1969, London) is a British economist and British politician. He has been chairman of the Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, which directs the UK's long-term economic planning. He was elected Labour Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North in the 2005 general election. He was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the Cabinet Office on June 28, … - Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn (born 27 January 1958, Tow Law, County Durham) is a British politician. He is Labour MP for Darlington, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's 2005 re-election campaign. - Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 - 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951. The Labour Party under Attlee won a landslide election victory over Winston Churchill immediately after Churchill had led Britain through World War II. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to have a majority in Parliament. - Oliver Heald
Oliver Heald (born December 15, 1954), British politician and barrister, is Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire. Oliver Heald was born in Reading, Berkshire, and was educated at the Reading School and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he was awarded a master's degree in law. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1977 and was a practising barrister in London and East Anglia from 1979 until he became a government minister in 1995. - Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, MP, (born 2 July 1940) is a prominent Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is MP for Rushcliffe, near Nottingham. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 until 1997, and a minister throughout all 18 years of Conservative rule from 1979 to 1997. He has contested the leadership of the party three times (in 1997, 2001 and 2005), being defeated each time. - Thomas More
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his father. Although the future held much promise for him, More was unsure of the direction he wanted his life to take. He considered becoming a priest but decided not to enter the Church because of his burning desire to have a family. - Hugh Dalton
Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC, generally known as Hugh Dalton (26 August 1887 - 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party politician, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. He was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks. He was born in Neath in Wales: his father, Canon John Neale Dalton was chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to King George V of the United Kingdom. - Francis Pym
Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, MC and Bar, PC (born 13 February 1922) is a British Conservative Party politician and former member of the Cabinet. Educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he served in the army during World War II and was awarded the Military Cross and Bar. He was a managing director and landowner, and became a councillor on Herefordshire County Council. - David Hunt
David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, PC, MBE (born 21 May 1942), is an English Conservative politician, and was a member of the Cabinet during the Margaret Thatcher and John Major administrations. He became Member of Parliament for Wirral after winning a by-election in 1976. The seat was broken up and Hunt became Member of Parliament for the new Wirral West constituency in 1983. In government he served as a whip and junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, … - Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 - 3 December 1980) was a British politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. He was also the sixth baronet of a title established in 1720. - Iain MacLeod
Iain Norman Macleod, PC (11 November 1913 - 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. - Mo Mowlam
Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam (18 September 1949 - 19 August 2005) was a British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Labour Member of Parliament. Her time as Northern Ireland Secretary saw the signing of the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement in 1998. - Duff Cooper
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG DSO PC (February 22, 1890 - January 1, 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British diplomat, Cabinet member, and author. The son of fashionable society doctor Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife), he was the youngest of four children and the only son and enjoyed a typical gentleman's upbringing of country estates, London society, Eton College, and New College, Oxford. - Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944 in Bath, Somerset) is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament, eventually rising to a cabinet minister and party chairman. In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons. - Jack Cunningham
John Anderson "Jack" Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, PC, DL (born 4 August 1939) is a British Labour politician and was Member of Parliament for Copeland until 2005. - Norman Tebbit
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC (born 29 March 1931) is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Chingford, who was born in Southgate in Enfield. His wife became permanently wheelchair-bound after the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of the 1984 Conservative Party conference in Brighton. - John Bright
John Bright (November 16, 1811 - March 27, 1889), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy. - Spencer Perceval
Spencer Perceval, KC (1 November 1762 - 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated - John Davies
John Emerson Harding Harding-Davies PC MBE (8 January 1916 - 4 July 1979) was a successful British businessman who served as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry during the 1960s. He later went into politics and served in the Cabinet of Edward Heath as the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. In 1972, he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. - Geoffrey Rippon
(Aubrey) Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham, PC, (28 May 1924 - 28 January 1997) was a British Conservative politician. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group. Educated at King's School, Taunton, and Brasenose College, Oxford where he was president of the University Conservative Association, he was called to the Bar in 1948. He was Mayor of Surbiton 1951-52 and a member of the London County Council from 1952. - Tony Newton
Antony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree, OBE PC, known as Tony Newton, (born August 29, 1937), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet member. He was member of Parliament for Braintree, until defeated in the 1997 general election, and is now a member of the House of Lords. Educated at Friends School Saffron Walden, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was President of the Union, he became MP for Braintree in 1974, … - Hugh Childers
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (25 June 1827 - 29 January 1896) was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He was born in London and educated at both Oxford and the University of Cambridge, graduating B.A. from the latter in 1850. He then decided to seek a career in Australia and in October emigrated to Victoria. He joined the government of Victoria and served as inspector of schools and immigration agent, … - Edwin Samuel Montagu
Edwin Samuel Montagu (February 6 1879 - November 15 1924) was a British Liberal politician, the second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. First elected as an MP in 1906, Edwin Montagu was Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. He was the second Jew to enter the British Cabinet but was strongly opposed to Zionism, which he called "a mischievous political creed." He opposed the Balfour Declaration, … - Cecil Parkinson
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (born 1 September 1931), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister. He had humble origins, being the son of a railway worker and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, from where he won a scholarship to Cambridge. - George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen KG KT FRS PC (28 January 1784 - 14 December 1860) was a Scottish politician, successively a Tory, Conservative & Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855. - Roberta Blackman-Woods
Dr Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods (Born 16 August 1957, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been Member of Parliament for the City of Durham constituency since May 2005. A a sociologist with expertise in housing, she was an Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Northumbria prior to her election. - Ernest Brown
Alfred Ernest Brown CH (August 27 1881 - February 16 1962) was a British politician who served as leader of the National Liberals from 1940 until 1945. Born in Torquay, Devon, Brown was the son of a fisherman and prominent Baptist and it was through following his father that he came to preach, gaining much experience as a public speaker. He soon came to the attention of the local Liberals and became a prominent public speaker at political meetings. - Charles Bathurst
Charles Bathurst, PC (1754 - 13 August 1831), known as Charles Bragge from 1754 to 1804, was a British politician of the early 19th century. Bathurst was the son of Charles Bragge, of Cleve Hill in Gloucestershire, and his wife Anne Bathurst, the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst. In 1804 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Bathurst in lieu of Bragge. - Richard Empson
Sir Richard Empson, minister of Henry VII, king of England, was a son of Peter Empson, an influential inhabitant of Towcester. Educated as a lawyer he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was a Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire in parliament and speaker of the House of Commons. Early in the reign of Henry VII he became associated with Edmund Dudley in carrying out the king’s rigorous and arbitrary system of taxation, … - John Fortescue Of Salden
Sir John Fortescue of Salden was the third Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, serving from 1589 until 1603. He was the son of Adrian Fortescue and his wife Anne. Fortescue had six children with his first wife and one more child with his second wife after the first died. Many of his children followed his path in politics, holding positions in Parliament. He led a largely undistinguished career in Parliament prior to his accession to the chancellorship, … - Francis Walsingham
Sir Francis Walsingham is remembered by history as the "spymaster" of Queen Elizabeth I of England. An admirer of Machiavelli, Walsingham is remembered as one of the most proficient espionage-weavers in history, excelling in the use of intrigues and deception to secure the English Crown. He is widely considered as one of the fathers of modern Intelligence. - Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl of Liverpool
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (26 April 1727 - 17 December 1808), English statesman, eldest son of Colonel Charles Jenkinson (d. 1750) and grandson of Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bt, of Walcot, Oxfordshire, was born in Winchester. The family was descended from Anthony Jenkinson (d. 1611), sea-captain, merchant and traveller, the first Englishman to penetrate into Central Asia. Charles was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, … - Robert Cecil 1st Earl of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563-24 May 1612), son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, statesman, spymaster and minister to Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Lord Salisbury was responsible for the demolition of most of the old palace of Hatfield House and the building of the new one. He was vilified by some of his contemporaries and, as is still common today, … - Ralph Sadler
The Right Honourable Sir Ralph Sadler, PC, Knight banneret, (1507 - 30 March 1587) was an English statesman of the 16th century, and served as a Secretary of State for King Henry VIII. Sadler was born in Hackney, Middlesex, the elder son of Henry Sadler. The second son, John Sadler, was the ancestor of Hamnet Sadler, the friend after whom William Shakespeare named his only son, Hamnet, and may also have been influenced to name his play Hamlet. - Richard Wingfield
Sir Richard Wingfield (c. 1456-July 22, 1525) was an influential courtier and diplomat in the early years of the Tudor dynasty of England. He was born at Letheringham, Suffolk to Sir John Wingfield (c. 1428-May 10, 1481) and his wife Elizabeth FitzLewis (c. 1431-1497). He was one of twelve or thirteen sons. His paternal grandparents were Sir Robert Wingfield and Elizabeth Gousell. He was one of the major landowners in Huntingdonshire and lived at Kimbolton Castle. - Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, PC (9 October 1775 - 2 September 1850) was a British politician of the early- to mid-19th century. Born into an ancient Welsh family, Williams-Wynn was the second son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, by his second wife Charlotte Grenville, daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville. His great-great-grandfather Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1680 to 1685. - Thomas Edward Taylor
Thomas Edward Taylor (March 17, 1811 - February 3, 1883), was a British Conservative Party politician. Taylor was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Taylor, fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (whose eldest son was created Marquess of Headfort in 1800). His mother was Marianne St Leger, daughter of Hon. Richard St Leger. He was educated at Eton and commissioned into the 6th Dragoons Guards in 1829.
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