- Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 - 14 January 1977) was a British politician who was Foreign Secretary for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Suez Crisis of 1956, which was politically disastrous from a British perspective. He is generally ranked among the least successful British Prime Ministers of the 20th century. - Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 - 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. - Andrew Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 - 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. - 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). - Austen Chamberlain
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (October 16, 1863 - March 17, 1937) was a British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. - Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July, 1848 - 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman, and the Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905, a time when his party and government became divided over the issue of tariff reform. Later, as Foreign Secretary, he authored the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. - Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 - 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath's accession represented a change in the leadership of the Conservative party, from aristocratic figures such as Harold Macmillan to the self-consciously meritocratic Ted Heath, and later, Margaret Thatcher. - Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December, 1902 - 8 March, 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. Butler was one of the few British politicians to have served in the three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, … - 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. - 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. - William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). He was a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli. The English statesman was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career. - Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman best known for his time as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government. - Samuel Hoare
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC (24 February 1880 - 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. Hoare was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, and was first elected to the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election as Member of Parliament for Chelsea. - Jack Straw
John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a senior British Labour Party politician. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed to the offices of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice. Previously he was Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 5 May 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007. He has been the Member of Parliament for Blackburn since 1979. - Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, known as Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer for several years after the Second World War. - John Robinson
John Robinson (7 November, 1650 - 11 April, 1723), English diplomat and prelate, a son of John Robinson (d. 1651), was born at Cleasby, near Darlington. - Kingsley Wood
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood (19 August 1881 - 21 September 1943) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was first elected to office as member of the London County Council in 1911, and was elected to parliament in 1918. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the Conservative Government from 1924 to 1929 and entered the National Government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1931, and served as Postmaster General, Minister of Health, … - Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood CH (8 February 1880 - 9 June 1954) was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924. Greenwood became deputy leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee, … - Cuthbert Tunstall
Cuthbert Tunstall (or Tonstall) (1474-November 18, 1559) was an English church leader, twice Bishop of Durham during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. - John Kemp
John Kemp (c. 1380 - March 22 1454) was an English cardinal, archbishop of Canterbury, and chancellor - Edward Shackleton Baron Shackleton
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, KG OBE PC (July 15, 1911 - September 22, 1994), was a British geographer and Labour Party politician. He was the younger son of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. In 1938, he married Betty Homan, and they had two children: the Hon. Charles Edward Ernest Shackleton and the Hon. Alexandra Shackleton. - John Stafford
John Stafford (died May 25, 1452) was an English statesman and Archbishop of Canterbury. Stafford came to note under Henry VI, becoming Lord Privy Seal in 1421 and Lord High Treasurer the following year. He was Lord Chancellor from 1432 to 1450. In 1425 Pope Martin V made him Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Pope Eugene IV made him Archbishop of Canterbury in 1443, a position he held until his death. - George Jellicoe 2nd Earl Jellicoe
George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, PC, FRS (4 April 1918 - 22 February 2007) was a British politician and statesman, diplomat and businessman. Jellicoe was the only son but sixth and youngest child of First World War naval commander, the hero of Jutland, Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe by his wife Florence Gwendoline (died 1964), second daughter of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Bart., of Gartmore, Perthshire. - Thomas Ruthall
Thomas Ruthall, (died February 4 1523), was a Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Lord Privy Seal and Bishop of Durham. - John Robert Clynes
John Robert Clynes (27 March 1869 - 23 October 1949) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and led the party in its breaktrough at the 1922 general election. The son of the labourer, Patrick Clynes, he was born in Oldham on 27th March 1869 and began work in a local cotton mill when he was 10 years old. - 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. - William Melton
William Melton was the 43rd Archbishop of York (1317–1340). He was also Lord High Treasurer from July 3 1325, until November 14 1326. He was the son of Nicholaas of Melton, and the brother of John de Melton. He was born in Melton in the parish of Welton, about nine miles from Kingston upon Hull. He was a contemporary of John of Hotham, Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely. - William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1520 - 4 August 1598), was an English politician, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign (17 November 1558-24 March 1603), and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. - Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey William Hoon (born December 6 1953) is a British politician. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Ashfield, and Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. - Richard Foxe
Richard Foxe (sometimes "Richard Fox") (c. 1448 - October 5, 1528) was an English churchman, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was born at Ropesley near Grantham, Lincolnshire. His parents belonged to the yeoman class, and little is known about Foxe's early career. He is thought to have gone to Magdalen 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, … - William Pitt 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November, 1708 - 11 May, 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War (aka French and Indian War) and who was later Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is often known as William Pitt the Elder to distinguish him from his son, William Pitt the Younger, who served as Prime Minister from 1783-1801 and from 1804 to his death in 1806. - Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (he is also Secretary of State for Wales). He is the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s. - Simon Islip
Simon Islip (d. 1366) was an English prelate. He served as archbishop of Canterbury between 1349 and 1366. He was the uncle of William Whittlesey. - John Wakeham
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC (born June 22, 1932), is a businessman and British Conservative Party politician. Since he left government, he has been active in business again, notably being a director of Enron before its collapse. Educated at Charterhouse School, he was a successful accountant and later businessman before his election to the House of Commons for Maldon, Essex in 1974. He became a minister after Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979. - Robert Stillington
Robert Stillington (1420-1491) was Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England. It is alleged by some that it was he who presented evidence that the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville was invalid due to Edward's earlier betrothal to Lady Eleanor Talbot. Appointed Lord Chancellor June 20th 1467 In 1478 he spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced George, Duke of Clarence. - Thomas Beckington
Thomas Beckington (also spelt Beckyngton) (c. 1390 - 14 January 1465) was the Bishop of Bath and Wells and 'King's Secretary' in Medieval England. He was born at Beckington in Somerset, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Having entered the Church he held many ecclesiastical appointments, and became dean of the Arches in 1423; then devoting his time to secular affairs he was sent on an embassy to Calais in 1439, and to John IV, … - Humphrey Atkins
Humphrey Edward Atkins, Baron Colnbrook was a British Conservative politician. Atkins was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and served in the Royal Navy 1940–48. He worked for a linoleum manufacturer then as a director of a financial advertising agency. Atkins contested West Lothian in 1951 and was elected as Member of Parliament for Merton and Morden in 1955. He became MP for Spelthorne in 1970. - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas Smith (December 23, 1513-August 12, 1577), was an English scholar and diplomat. He was born at Saffron Walden in Essex. He became a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1530, and in 1533 was appointed a public reader or professor. He lectured in the schools on natural philosophy, and on Greek in his own rooms. In 1540 Smith went abroad, and, after studying in France and Italy and taking a degree of law at the University of Padua, … - John Biffen
William John Biffen, Baron Biffen, PC (born 3 November, 1930), is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, who previously spent 36 years in the House of Commons. He represented the constituency of Oswestry, later renamed Shropshire North, from the time of his election at a by-election in 1961 until his retirement immediately prior to the 1997 General Election. In the same year he was made a life peer, sitting as Baron Biffen, …
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