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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)

Austen Chamberlain

British politician (1863-1937)

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

British Conservative politician (1919–2018)

George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

British politician (1827–1909)

British politician and journalist (1873-1955)

Edward Carson, Baron Carson

Irish politician, barrister and judge (1854-1935)

Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood

British Conservative politician (1880-1959)

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Governor of New South Wales; Governor of Queensland; Viceroy of India (1868–1933)

John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1735-1823)

British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author (1890-1954)

Reginald McKenna

British banker and Liberal politician (1863-1943)

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)

First Lord of the Admiralty

political head of the Royal Navy

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook

British Liberal politician (1826-1904)

Lord George Hamilton

British politician (1845-1927)

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

British judge, politician and Cabinet minister (1907–2001)

George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen

British statesman and businessman (1831–1907)

John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer

British politician (1835-1910)

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough

British Labour Co-operative politician (1885-1965)

British politician (1875-1937)

British politician (1827-1896)

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long

British politician (1854–1924)

Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford

British politician (1905-2001)

William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne

British politician (1859-1942)

Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset

British aristocrat and Whig politician (1805–1885)

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax

British politician (1800-1885)

Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke

English diplomat and politician (1656–1733)

Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken

Irish-born British politician and peer (1901-1958)

William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman

British politician (1864-1935)

William Henry Smith

English bookseller, newsagent and politician (1825–1891)

Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville

British politician (1771-1851)

George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk

Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician (1906-1994)

Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor

British politician (1847-1911)

George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall

British politician (1881-1965)

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth

British politician (1849-1909)

George Ward Hunt

British politician (1825-1877)

Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell

British politician (1881-1969)

James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope

British politician (1880-1967)

Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland

English politician; (1577-1635)

John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton

British politician (1799-1880)

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

English noble (1582-1642)

Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham

British politician (1868-1947)

George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe

British army officer, politician and businessman (1918–2007)

Henry Lowry-Corry

British politician (1803–1873)