- F. W. S. Craig
Frederick Walter Scott Craig (1929 - March 23, 1989) was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of reference books. Starting off in public relations, he compiled election results in his spare time, and later launched his own business. A difficult man to work with, he suffered poor health and took his own life.
- Adrian Hilton
Adrian Hilton (born in 1964) is an English Conservative politician who gained media attention during the 2005 general election. Hilton studied Drama and Movement Psychology followed by a further degree in Theology, in which he graduated with first class honours. He is a grammar school faculty head (Politics & Philosophy), and lectures in religio-political issues. He has authored many magazine articles and a best-selling book "The Principality and Power of Europe", …
- 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.
- David Davies
David Thomas Charles Davies (born July 27, 1970) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Monmouth.
- David Davies
Sir David Davies (December 20 1870 - April 25 1958), was a Welsh Conservative politician. Davies was born in Tregaron, west Wales. His father, John Davies, was a smallhoder living at Ty'nycae, a few miles outside the town in Ceredigion. Like many of his contemporaries he left the Teifi Valley to work in the city as a deliverer of milk. His business was very successful, and he became the first leader of the London Retail Dairymen's Association.
- Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English Conservative, blogger, author, and presenter on internet TV station, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, which he co-founded with Stephan Shakespeare. He was the first openly gay Conservative to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. Dale is author or editor of fourteen political books. He presented "Planet Politics" on Oneword Radio and occasionally appeared on "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio Five Live.
- Syed Kamall
Syed Salah Kamall (born February 15, 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of the European Parliament for London. Kamall was born and brought up in London. He is married with two children. He was educated at the Latymer School, Edmonton. He has a degree from the University of Liverpool, a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a PhD from City University, London.
- Barbara Cartland
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ (9 July 1901 - 21 May 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, specialising in historical love themes. She also became one of the United Kingdom's most popular media personalities, appearing often at public events and on television, dressed in her trademark pink and discoursing on love, health and social issues.
- Adam Rickitt
Adam Peter Rickitt (born 29 May 1978 in Crewe, Cheshire), is an English actor, former singer and model. His surname is frequently mis-spelled as 'Rickett', including once on the credits of "Coronation Street" when he returned in 2002.
- Andrew Neil
Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21 1949, Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Neil made his name at "The Sunday Times" where he was editor for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of "The Business" and (from 2005) "The Spectator". Press Holdings sold "The Scotsman" in December 2005, ending Neil's relationship with the newspaper.
- John Scott
John Scott (born June 7, 1951) is a Scottish farmer and politician, and is a Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ayr. Born in Ayr, He has been MSP for Ayr since winning it in a by-election in 2000. He was returned in the 2003 parliamentary election.
- Derek Laud
Derek George Henry Laud (born August 9, 1964, in Battersea, London) is a British political lobbyist and former Conservative parliamentary candidate, who achieved celebrity status during his run as a contestant in the sixth (2005) series of the UK "Big Brother" TV show.
- Angie Bray
Angie Bray is a Conservative Party politician and member of the London Assembly for West Central London. She is a former journalist and was head of broadcasting at Conservative Central Office in both the 1992 and 2005 General Elections. She was elected to the Assembly in 2000, and re-elected in 2004. In July 2006 she was elected leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly.
- William Graham
William Graham born November 1949 in Newport, Monmouthshire, is a Conservative politician, currently education spokesman in the National Assembly for Wales and Chief Whip.
- Nick Bourne
Nicholas Henry Bourne, commonly known as Nick Bourne, (born 1952) is the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly for Wales and a Conservative Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales. His interests include visiting museums and art galleries, travelling, walking and sport.
- George Wyndham
George Wyndham (1863 - 1913) was a significant English political figure. He was also a man of letters, noted for his elegance, and one of The Souls. His father was Percy Scawen Wyndham, son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and he was a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham - and a great-grandson of Irish revolutionary Lord Edward Fitzgerald, whom he greatly resembled physically. In politics he was a Conservative, closely involved in Irish affairs at two points.
- Caroline Jackson
Caroline Jackson (born 31 October 1946 in Penzance, Cornwall) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party since 1984. Jackson represented Wiltshire from 1984 to 1994, Wiltshire North and Bath from 1994 to 1999 and now serves as an MEP for the South West England region.
- Brian Coleman
Brian Coleman (born 25 June 1961) is a Conservative Party politician and member of the London Assembly for Barnet and Camden, England. He is a Councillor in the London Borough of Barnet. He is a former Chairman of the Finchley Friends of Israel and remains member of Conservative Friends of Israel. Governor at two local Secondary Schools, he is also involved with the Scouts and the Rotary Club, …
- Lancelot Ware
Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE (5 June 1915 - 15 August 2000) was an English barrister and co-founder of Mensa International. Lancelot Ware's main claim to fame is co-founding Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946. They originally called it the "High IQ Club". Ware was born in Mitcham, Surrey, the eldest son of a businessman father and musical mother.
- Richard Robinson
Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, (October 16, 1849–April 28, 1928) was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council (1907–1908). He was the eldest son of a Whitby family engaged in the owning and operating of sailing ships. His father died when he was 18, and with four sisters and four younger bothers, there was no money for expensive higher education.
- Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson is a London based venture capitalist. Wilson was an Open Scholar at Oxford University, and a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School - the school's top award. In 2004, "Private Equity International" magazine named his 1998 management buyout of environmental services firm Safety-Kleen Europe the "European mid-market deal of the year," after the business was sold for £280 million to JP Morgan.
- John Hall
Sir John Hall (21 September 1911 - 19 January 1978) was a British Conservative Party (UK) politician. Hall was educated privately and worked as a chartered secretary and company director. Hall stood for Parliament without success in Grimsby in 1950 and Fulham East in 1951. He was elected Member of Parliament for Wycombe at a by-election in November 1952. Hall served as an opposition spokesman on Treasury, economic affairs and trade until October 1965.
- Chris Philp
Chris Philp was the Chairman of the Bow Group in 2004-5, a British centre-right think tank. Philp was educated at St Olave's Grammar School and Oxford University, where he studied physics and was editor of "Cherwell". After university Philp worked at McKinsey & Company. He then left to start Blueheath, a distribution company, and Clearstone, a HGV driver training company.
- Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan (born 1971, in Lima, Peru) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region for the Conservative Party. He was first elected as the youngest member of the European Parliament in 1999, and was re-elected in top position in 2004. He serves on the Internal Market Committee. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oriel College, Oxford where he took a First Class degree in Modern History, …
- Robert Carr
Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (born November 11, 1916) is a British Conservative politician. Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural sciences, graduating in 1938. He was elected Member of Parliament for Mitcham in 1950 and served there until 1974 when the seat was merged and he moved to Carshalton.
- Rod Richards
Rod (Roderick) Richards (born Llanelli 12 March 1947) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for North West Clwyd, in Wales, from 1992 to 1997, when he lost his seat in the Labour Party landslide. He was also the Conservative leader in the Welsh Assembly in 1999, after being elected as an Assembly Member for North Wales. Welsh speaking, Mr Richards was educated at Llandovery College and Swansea University.
- Tony Arbour
Anthony Francis Arbour (born August 30, 1945), commonly known as Tony Arbour, is a British Conservative Party politician, a Richmond councillor and member of the London Assembly representing South West London. He was educated at St Andrew's School and Surbiton County Grammar School before going to the then Kingston College of Technology where he earned a BSc in economics. He went on to get an MBA from City University Business School.
- Murray Tosh
Murray Tosh (born 1 September 1950, Ayr) is a Scottish Conservative & Unionist politician, and former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West of Scotland Region (2003-07). He was elected as a Regional Member for the South of Scotland in the 1999 election. Between 2003 and 2007 he was a Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament and so had remain impartial in the chamber. Tosh was a councillor on the former Kyle and Carrick District Council.
- Nanette Milne
Dr. Nanette Milne is a Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland Region since 2003. She was brought up in Aberdeen’s Woodside. She attended the Aberdeen High School for Girls. She then went on to study at the University of Aberdeen where she graduated as a doctor in 1969. In the 1970s she took a break from her profession to raise two children.
- Roger Helmer
Roger Helmer (born January 25, 1944 in London) is a British politician and a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region. He has described himself as a eurosceptic and is a supporter of the Better Off Out campaign. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999 as a Conservative Party MEP, and re-elected in 2004. He was subsequently suspended from the party on 26 May, …
- Jonathan Morgan
Jonathan Morgan, (born 1974 in Cardiff) is a Welsh Conservative politician, currently a member of the National Assembly for Wales for Cardiff North.
- Roger Evans
(Jeremy) Roger Evans (b. 1964) is a Conservative Party politician and member of the London Assembly for Havering and Redbridge. He is a former councillor and leader of the Conservative group in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Evans was born in Lancashire and moved to London in 1987. He worked for Royal Mail for 10 years before training as a Barrister. He was called to the bar in 1997 and is a member of Middle Temple.
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw D.Phil., DBE (b. October 1 1912, Withington, Manchester) is a mathematician and a politician. Born Kathleen Timpson, as a child she loved doing arithmetic problems. Although deaf since age eight, she gained a place at Somerville College Oxford University to study mathematics, despite her teacher's discouragement. She bluffed her way through the interview by guessing the question 'What did you do in the summer holidays?'.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1st Baron Lytton
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." Despite his popularity in his heyday, today his name is known as a byword for bad writing.
- Maurice Cowling
Maurice John Cowling (September 6, 1926 - August 24, 2005) was a British historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is noted for his high political way of writing history.
- Struan Stevenson
Struan Stevenson (born April 4, 1948 in Ballantrae) is a member of both the Executive and the Shadow Cabinet of the Scottish Conservative party. He is a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.He is Vice President of the Ruling EPP-ED Group of MEPs in the European Parliament. He had been a local councillor for 22 years in South Ayrshire (formerly Kyle & Carrick), and stood for parliamentary seats at the 1987 election, the 1992 election and 1997 election.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born May 24, 1969) is Head of Global Emerging Markets at Lloyd George Management in London and the Conservative candidate for the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency in England. Rees-Mogg is the son of William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times, whilst his sister Annunziata contested Aberavon in the 2005 General Election and is on the Conservatives' 'A List' for future selections.
- Alexander Hesketh 3rd Baron Hesketh
Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh KBE PC (born 28 October, 1950), is a British Conservative politician. For most of his life, he has preferred to be addressed by his middle name. He was Minister for Industry between 1990 and 1991. On 22 May of that year, he became "Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms" (Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords), a position he kept until the 16 September, 1993.
- Jamie McGrigor
Jamie McGrigor (born 19 October 1949, London) is a Conservative politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands Region since 1999. He fought the Argyll and Bute constituency in the 2005 general election, finishing second, and fought the equivalent seat in the 2007 Scottish parliament election, finishing third. He has served as spokesman for fisheries for the Scottish Conservatives and is currently their spokesman on culture and sport.
- Charles Tannock
Charles Tannock (born September 25, 1957 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is a British politician, psychiatrist, and Member of the European Parliament for London for the Conservative Party. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999.