- Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. Known for his eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education. - David Cameron
Mr Cameron joined his family in Istanbul after he made a flying visit to Georgia, where he upstaged the Government by meeting its President, Mikheil Saakashvili, in the wake of the Russian invasion. His flights to and from Tbilisi were paid for by the Conservative Party. He and his family were then taken on Mr Freud's Gulfstream IV jet to Santorini. - Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin (born May 19, 1956, Hampstead) is the British Member of Parliament for West Dorset, Chairman of the Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department. - John Smith
Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith, CH, CBE (3 April 1923 - 28 February 2007) was a British banker, Conservative Member of Parliament, and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. He was involved with many architectural, industrial and maritime conservation charities. He founded the Landmark Trust in 1965. - Zac Goldsmith
Frank Zacharias "Zac" Robin Goldsmith (born January 20 1975), son of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, is an environmental activist and editor of "The Ecologist". Goldsmith joined the Conservative Party in 2005. He was placed on the party's A-List of prospective parliamentary candidates, and selected as the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park in March 2007. - Jeremy Thorpe
John Jeremy Thorpe (born April 29, 1929) is a British politician, who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. He is remembered for losing his position, as well as his seat in Parliament, after he was accused of conspiring to murder an alleged former gay lover. He was later acquitted of the charges. - Harold MacMillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed 'Supermac', he did not use his first name and was known as Harold Macmillan before elevation to the peerage. When asked what represented the greatest challenge for a statesman, Macmillan replied: “Events, my dear boy, events”. - Jonathan Aitken
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, and British government minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999. - 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. - Hugo Swire
Hugo George William Swire (born 30 November 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton, and attended the University of St Andrews before going to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is Conservative Party member of Parliament for East Devon, and was first elected in 2001. Before his career as a politician, he was a member of the Army, as well as the director of the auction house Sotheby's. - Tam Dalyell
Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), known as Tam Dalyell, is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. Dalyell was born in England but raised in his mother's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E., a scion of the family of Loch of Drylaw, was an Empire civil servant (Political Agent) and through his mother he is a baronet, … - Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer known as Hugh Laurie. He is known in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe for his roles in "Blackadder" and for his long-running comedy collaboration with Stephen Fry, which has included "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" and "Jeeves and Wooster" (see Fry and Laurie for more detail). - Darius Guppy
Darius Guppy was convicted of defrauding Lloyd's of London insurance market of £1.8 million during the early 1990s, together with firearms offences relating to a robbery of gemstones in New York City, as well as VAT offences in connection with a gold smuggling operation between the UK and India. - 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. - Alan Clark
The Rt. Hon. Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April, 1928 - 5 September, 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. He was also a Privy Councillor, and was thus styled "The Rt. Hon. Alan Clark". - Guy Burgess
Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess (16 April, 1911 - 30 August, 1963) was a British-born intelligence officer and double agent who worked for the Soviet Union. He was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring that betrayed allied secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War. Burgess and Anthony Blunt contributed to the Soviet cause with the transmission of secret Foreign Office and MI5 documents that described Allied military strategy. - Humphrey Lyttelton
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (born 23 May 1921), also known as 'Humph', is a well-known British jazz musician and broadcaster, and chairman of the BBC radio programme "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". He is a cousin of the 10th Viscount Cobham and a nephew of the politician and sportsman Alfred Lyttelton, who was the first man to represent England at both football and cricket. - Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls (born Edward Michael Bear Grylls on 7 June 1974) is a British mountaineer and adventurer as well as best-selling author, television presenter, and international motivational speaker. Grylls, a former member of the Special Air Service (SAS), made his name by becoming, at the age of 23, the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and return alive in 1998. He hosts the television program on Channel 4 in the UK called "Man vs. - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born January 14 1965) is a British celebrity chef and TV presenter, noted for his mildly eccentric antics and back-to-nature philosophy. Born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, Fearnley-Whittingstall first became interested in cookery as a young child but he chose to study at St Peter's College, Oxford University, after attending Eton College, … - Prince Henry Of Wales
Prince Henry of Wales (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984), commonly known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and his first wife, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. He is third in the line of succession to the thrones of the United Kingdom and the other fifteen Commonwealth Realms, behind his father, and his older brother, Prince William. - Magnus Linklater
Magnus Linklater (born 21 February 1942) is a Scottish journalist and former newspaper editor. Linklater was born in Orkney, and is the son of Scottish writer Eric Linklater. He was brought up in Easter Ross, attending the local school at Nigg before moving to high school in Dunbar, East Lothian, then on to Eton College in England. He continued his studies with courses at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany and the Sorbonne in Paris, … - Alex Fergusson
Alex Fergusson (born 8 April 1949, Leswalt, Wigtownshire) is a Conservative politician and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. He has been Member of the Scottish Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale since 2003. He was previously a member for the South of Scotland region from 1999. As a farmer before his election, he was Conservative spokesman for Agriculture and Forestry in the Scottish Parliament. After holding his seat at the 2007 election, … - Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual. - Prince William Of Wales
Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. He is second in the line of succession to the British throne and thrones of each of the other Commonwealth Realms. As the son of the Prince of Wales and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William is a member of the British Royal Family. The prince, who is 6 ft 3 inch (191cm) tall, … - Stuart Wheeler
Stuart Wheeler (born 1937) is the founder of IG Group and British Conservative Party donor. Wheeler was educated at Eton College, and went on to do his national service in the Welsh Guards before graduating from Oxford University with a second class honours degree in law. He then practised as a barrister briefly before working as a merchant banker. He eventually set up IG Index in 1974. The entrepreneur is married to Tessa Codrington, a society photographer, … - Thomas Cholmondeley
Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley (born 19 January 1968) is a Kenyan farmer of British ancestry. He is most famous for his controversial release from a murder charge. Cholmondeley shot Kenya Wildlife Service game warden Samson ole Sisina on 19 April 2005 at his ranch in Gilgil division, Nakuru District. Cholmondeley admitted the shooting, but insisted it was self-defense. The Attorney General Amos Wako discontinued the case through emission of a nolle prosequi. - John Hemming
John Hemming (born 1935) is a Canadian-born explorer and author. Hemming was born in Vancouver - because his father had been through the trenches in the First War, saw the Second coming, and wanted him born in North America. So he sent John's mother on a cruise through the Panama Canal that ended in British Columbia; but John was brought back to London when he was two months old. He is a proud Canadian but has not been there since visiting Expo in 1967. - David Astor
Francis David Langhorne Astor CH (March 5, 1912, London - December 7, 2001, London) was a newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Astor family. He was the third child of American-born parents, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952) and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964). The product of an immensely wealthy business dynasty, and raised in the grandeur of a great country estate where the political and intellectual elite of the time gathered, … - Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis (born 11 February, 1971) is an English actor, born in St John's Wood, London. Lewis, whose family is from Wales, was educated at Eton College and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he served as a stage actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company. During his time with the RSC, he played Borgheim in Adrian Noble's production of Ibsen's "Little Eyolf", as well as Posthumus in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline". - Ferdinand Mount
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet (born 2 July 1939), known simply as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer and novelist, columnist for "The Sunday Times" and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician. He was head of the policy unit in 10 Downing Street in 1982-83, during the time when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, and wrote the 1983 Tory general election manifesto. - Nicholas Coleridge
Nicholas Coleridge is the Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes "Glamour", "GQ", "House and Garden", "Vogue", "Tatler", and "Vanity Fair". He is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London during its most troubled period in the late 1980s. - 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. - Henry Blofeld
Henry Calthorpe Blofeld (born at Hoveton Home Farm in Norfolk on 23 September 1939) (known as Blowers, thanks to the late Brian Johnston) is a sports journalist. He is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4. - Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm (born 1932) is a British film critic and historian, educated at Eton College. He worked for several decades as a film critic for the "The Guardian", having previously been an amateur jockey and the paper's first horse racing correspondent. In the mid-eighties he was host of "The Film Club" on BBC2, which was dedicated to art house films. Upon his retirement from "The Guardian" in 2000, he published his final series of articles, … - John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (5 June 1883 - 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. - Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1537 - 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier from Devon, who served the crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. One of the pioneers of English colonization, he claimed what is thought to be the first English property in North America. He was a half-brother (through his mother) of Sir Walter Raleigh. - Brian Johnston
Brian Alexander Johnston MC (June 24 1912 - January 5 1994) (known as Johnners) was a cricket commentator for the BBC from 1946 until his death. Born in Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford and joined the BBC in January 1946, after service with the Grenadier Guards in the Second World War in which he won the Military Cross. On 27 August 1922 his father drowned at Bude, Cornwall at the age of 44. - Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 - 18 March 1745) was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. This position had no official recognition in law, but Walpole is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the "de facto" office due to the extent of his influence in the Cabinet. However, the term "Prime Minister" was never used officially at this time. - Tom Parker Bowles
Thomas Henry "Tom" Parker Bowles (born 18 December 1974 in London, England) is the son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Camilla Parker Bowles) and Andrew Parker Bowles. His stepfather and godfather is HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. His younger sister is Laura Lopes and his stepbrothers are Prince William and Prince Harry of Wales. He is a food columnist and television presenter, as well as the author of two books about food. - Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University. He was born in Cornhill, London and lived with his mother after she left his abusive father. He was educated at Eton College and became a Fellow first of Peterhouse, and later of Pembroke College, Cambridge. While a student, he met Horace Walpole whom he accompanied on his Grand Tour. Gray spent most of his life as a scholar in Cambridge, …
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