- Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - Tony Benn
Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. He was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963. During the 1970s and 1980s he was the prominent figure on the left of the Labour Party. In the second government of Harold Wilson he was Secretary of State for Industry. In the government of James Callaghan he was Secretary of State for Energy. - Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC (born 18 April 1924) is an English Labour politician and former Cabinet minister. He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire. The small, pipe-smoking, former coal miner first went down the mines at the age of fourteen and remained in the coal industry until he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Barnsley constituency at a by-election in 1953. - Hastings Lees-Smith
Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith (January 26, 1878 - December 18, 1941) was a United Kingdom Labour politician who was briefly in the Cabinet in 1931. He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government. - Lyon Playfair 1st Baron Playfair
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, GCB, PC, FRS (May 1, 1818 - May 29, 1898) was a Scottish scientist and Parliamentarian. Born at Chunar, Bengal, son of the Inspector General of Hospitals in that region, Playfair was educated at the University of St Andrews, the Andersonian Institute in Glasgow, and the University of Edinburgh. After going to Calcutta at the end of 1837, he became private laboratory assistant to Thomas Graham at University College, London, … - Frederick Kellaway
Frederick George Kellaway PC (3 December 1870-13 April 1933), often called F. G. Kellaway, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament for Bedford from December 1910 to 1922. Kellaway's father, William Hamley Kellaway, had a joinery and picture frame business in Bristol, where Frederick was born. He became a journalist and then edited a number of local newspapers in Lewisham, before being elected to Parliament in 1910. - Laming Worthington-Evans
Sir Worthington Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet GBE (23 August 1868 - 14 February 1931) was a British Conservative politician. Born Laming Evans, he was the son of Worthington Evans and Susanah Laming. He married Gertrude Hale in 1898 and had one son and one daughter. He assumed the prefix surname of Worthington by Royal Licence in 1916. He trained as a solicitor and served as temporary Major in World War I. - Vernon Hartshorn
Vernon Hartshorn (1872 - 1931) was a British Labour politician. Hartshorn was President of the South Wales Miners' Federation, and a member of the National Executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. He was elected as member of Parliament for Ogmore in 1918. He served as Postmaster-General in 1924, made a Privy Counsellor the same year, and became a member of the Simon Commission. In 1930, he was appointed Lord Privy Seal, serving until his death in 1931. - Ernest Marples
(Alfred) Ernest Marples, Baron Marples (9 December 1907 - 6 July 1978) was a British politician. Born at Henshaw Street in Stretford, Manchester, this local elementary schoolboy succeeded in becoming Postmaster General and Minister of Transport during his time as a member of the Conservative Government. His father had been a renowned engineering charge-hand and Manchester Labour campaigner, and his mother had worked in a local hat factory. - James Bruce 8th Earl of Elgin
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, KT, GCB, KSI, PC (20 July 1811 - 20 November 1863) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat, best known as Governor General of the Province of Canada and Viceroy of India. He was the son of the 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine. His second wife was Lady Mary Lambton, daughter of the 1st Earl of Durham, … - Henry Fawcett
Henry Fawcett (1833 - 1884) was a blind English statesman and economist. He was born in Salisbury, and educated at the University of Cambridge, where he became Fellow of Trinity Hall. A statue of him stands in Salisbury Market Square. In 1858, when he was 25, he was blinded by a shooting accident, in spite of which he continued with his studies, especially in economics, and in 1863 published his "Manual of Political Economy", … - John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 1925 - 14 April 1988) was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps most famous for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. - Spencer Cavendish 8th Duke of Devonshire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, KG, GCVO, PC (23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908) was a British Liberal Party statesman, previously known (1858–1891) as Marquess of Hartington (a courtesy title). Cavendish was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entered Parliament in 1857. Between 1863 and 1874 Hartington held various Government posts, including lord of the Admiralty, under-secretary for war, postmaster-general, … - Henry Cecil Raikes
Henry Cecil Raikes (November 18, 1838 - August 24, 1891) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Vicar Henry Raikes (1782-1854), Chancellor of the diocese of Chester and the grand-son of Thomas Raikes, merchant and banker in London, who was Governor of the Bank of England (1797-1799) and a personal friend of prime minister William Pitt the Younger. He married Charlotte Blanche Trevor-Roper of Plas Teg, Mold, … - James Graham 4th Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose, KT, PC (16 July 1799 - 30 December 1874) was a British politician. He was the only son of his father's second marriage (to Caroline Marie Montagu, the daughter of the Duke of Manchester). He married Caroline Agnes Beresford, the daughter of Lord Decies. During the mid-nineteenth century he occupied minor positions outside the cabinet in the short-lived governments of Lord Derby. He and his wife had one son, Douglas, … - Herbert Samuel 1st Viscount Samuel
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC (November 6, 1870 - February 2, 1963) was an Anglo-Jewish politician and diplomat. - Sydney Buxton 1st Earl Buxton
Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, GCMG, PC (25 October 1853 - 15 October 1934) was a British politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The grandson of social reformer Thomas Fowell Buxton, Sydney Buxton was born in London and educated at Clifton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a member of the London School Board from 1876 to 1882. - Edward Short Baron Glenamara
Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara, CH, PC (born 17 December 1912) is a former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central in the United Kingdom. He was a minister during the Labour Governments of Harold Wilson. Short was elected a councillor on Newcastle City Council where he led the Labour Group. He was first elected to Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central at the 1951 general election. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1964, … - Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling (7 April 1883 - 17 April 1971) was a British Labour politician, who was born at Maarehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire. He was educated at Ripley Elementary School and worked in the mines as a boy. He later studied mining at University College and worked as a colliery checkweighman at the Bulcroft Colliery. - John Manners 7th Duke of Rutland
John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, KG, GCB, PC (13 December 1818 - 4 August 1906), known as Lord John Manners before 1888, was an English statesman. He was born at Belvoir Castle on the 13th of December 1818, being the younger son of the 5th Duke of Rutland by Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Lord Byron's guardian, the 5th Earl of Carlisle. Lord John Manners, as he then was, was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. - Charles Canning 1st Earl Canning
Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning KG GCB KSI PC (14 December 1812-17 June 1862), known as Viscount Canning from 1837 to 1859, was an English statesman and Governor-General of India during the Mutiny of 1857. He was the youngest child of George Canning, and was born at Brompton, near London. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1833, as first class in classics and second class in mathematics. - William Montagu 5th Duke of Manchester
William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (October 21 1771-March 18 1843), known as Viscount Mandeville from 1771 to 1783, was a British peer, colonial administrator and politician. Manchester was the son of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester. He was Governor of Jamaica from 1808 to 1827, and prepared the colony for the emancipation of slaves. In 1815 he dealt with the aftermath of destruction of Port Royal by fire and of the plantations by a hurricane. - Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl of Chichester
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC (1756-1826), known from 1801 until 1805 as Lord Pelham, son of the 1st earl, was surveyor-general of ordnance in Lord Rockingham's 2nd ministry (1782), and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 (when he was also appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland). In 1795 he was sworn of the Privy Council and became Irish chief secretary under Pitt's government, … - Herbrand Sackville 9th Earl De La Warr
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr GBE, PC (June 20 1900 - January 28 1976), known as Lord Buckhurst from 1900 until 1915 (and sometimes nicknamed "Buck de la Warr" after that), was a British National Labour politician in the 1930s. The son of a Conservative father and Liberal mother, Herbrand Sackville was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford where he developed trends towards socialism. - William Mitchell-Thomson 1st Baron Selsdon
William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon KBE PC (15 April 1877-24 December 1938), known as Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baronet, from 1918 to 1932, was a British politician. Mitchell-Thomson was the son of Sir Mitchell Mitchell Thomson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was elected as a Unionist Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire North West in 1906, serving until 1910. He was then MP for Glasgow Maryhill between 1918 and 1922, … - John Wildman
Sir John Wildman (c. 1621 - June 2, 1693) was an English soldier and politician. Wildman was born in the Norfolk town of Wreningham, and was educated at Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge taking an MA in 1644. Sometime later he married Lucy Lovelace, the daughter of the Catholic Lord Lovelace and may have had legal training as he later described himself as an attorney or solicitor. He became prominent, however, as a civilian adviser to the Army agitators, … - George Campbell 8th Duke of Argyll
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th and 1st Duke of Argyll was a prominent United Kingdom Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century. - James Cecil 1st Marquess of Salisbury
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (September 4 1748-June 13 1823) was the son of James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury. He married Lady Emily Mary Hill, daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, on 2 December 1773. They had four children: *Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Cecil (d. 1860), married Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley *Emily Anne Bennet Elizabeth Cecil (d. 1858), married George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath and had issue. *Caroline Cecil, died young. - Jack Pease 1st Baron Gainford
Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford PC JP DL, (17 January 1860 - 15 February 1943) was an English businessman and Liberal politician. Born in Darlington (a Darlington Pease), the second son of Sir Joseph W. Pease, 1st Baronet, (MP, Hutton Hall Guisborough), he was educated at Tottenham School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His elder brother was the MP Alfred E. Pease. In 1886, he married Ethel Havelock-Allan, a daughter of Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, Bt. - William Monsell 1st Baron Emly
William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, PC (21 September 1812-20 April 1894) was the President of the Board of Health of the United Kingdom (a position now known as the Secretary of State for Health) between 9 February 1857 and 24 September 1857. He was born to William Monsell of Tervoe (1778-1822) and Olivia, daughter of Sir John Walsh of Ballykilcavan. He was educated at Winchester (1826-1830) and Oriel College, Oxford, … - William Ormsby-Gore 4th Baron Harlech
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech KG GCMG PC (11 April 1885 - 14 February 1964), known until 1938 as William Ormsby-Gore, was a British Conservative politician and banker. Harlech was the son of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, and Lady Margaret Ethel Gordon. - Edward Eliot 3rd Earl of St Germans
Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans, GCB, DL, LL.D, PC (29 August 1798 - 7 October 1877) was a British politician. He was born in Plymouth, Devon, on August 29 1798 to William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans (April 1 1767 - January 19 1845) and his first wife, Georgina Augusta Leveson-Gower (April 13 1769 - March 24 1806). He was educated at Westminster School from 1809 - 1811, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 13 December 1815. - Harry Crookshank 1st Viscount Crookshank
Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH PC (27 May 1893 - 17 October 1961), known as Harry Crookshank, was a British Conservative Party politician. Crookshank was born in Cairo and educated at Eton College and Oxford University. In World War I he served in the Grenadier Guards and was badly wounded, leaving him unable to father children. He then worked in the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. until 1924. - Charles Gordon-Lennox 5th Duke of Richmond
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (3 August 1791 - 21 October 1860) was an English politician and a prominent Conservative. The son of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lady Charlotte Gordon, he was styled "Earl of March" until he succeeded his father in 1819. He served on Wellington's staff in the Peninsular War, being at the same time Member of Parliament for Chichester. - Charles Abbot 2nd Baron Colchester
Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester (12 March 1798-18 October 1867), known as Charles Abbot before 1829, was a British Conservative politician. He succeeded to his father's peerage in 1829 and entered the House of Lords. He held minor posts in Lord Derby's governments of the 1850s. - Edward Stanley 17th Earl of Derby
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, PC, GCB, GCVO, TD (4 April 1865 - 4 February 1948) was an English politician around the turn of the 20th century. He was the son of the 16th Earl of Derby. Educated at Wellington, he joined the Grenadier Guards as a lieutenant, and served in that regiment between 1885 and 1895. He also served as Secretary of State for War (two separate times) and Ambassador to France. - Ulick de Burgh 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde KP PC (1802-1874) was a British Whig politician.
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