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Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
Clement Attlee
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 (1883–1967)
Austen Chamberlain
British politician (1863-1937)
Tony Benn
British politician (1925–2014)
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician (1870–1963)
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
English Peer and statesman; inventor of the sandwich
Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
British politician (1812-1862)
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
British nobleman, politician and diplomat (1811–1863)
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Scottish peer, Liberal politician and writer on science, religion, and politics (1823-1900)
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
British statesman (1833-1908)
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
British statesman (1818–1906)
George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
British diplomat, politician and landowner (1758-1833)
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
Irish politician (1745-1814)
Kingsley Wood
British politician (1881-1943)
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
British politician and diplomat (1865–1948)
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk
British politician (1847-1917)
James Fergusson
British politician (1832-1907)
James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose
British noble (1755-1836)
John Stonehouse
British politician & novelist (1925-1988)
Henry Fawcett
British academic, politician and economist (1833–1884)
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
British politician (1756-1826)
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech
British politician and banker (1885-1964)
Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer
British politician (1708-1781)
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
Governor-General of Australia (1893-1961)
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
Irish politician (1760-1816)
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
British politician (1791-1860)
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
British politician (1853-1934)
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair
British politician and chemist (1818–1898)
Edward Short, Baron Glenamara
British politician (1912-2012)
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
British Marquess and politician
Roy Mason
British politician (1924-2015)
Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon
British diplomat (1709-1786)
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry
British politician (1852-1915)
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
British diplomatist and politician (1695-1770)
John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
Lord Privy Seal (1759-1841)
Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke
British Royal Navy admiral (1799-1873)
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet
British politician (1868-1931)
Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
British politician and diplomat (1802–74)
William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington
Anglo-Irish politician (1763-1845)
Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
British politician (1767-1837)
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
British politician and diplomat (1755-1815)
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
British politician (1865-1932)
Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans
British politician and diplomat (1798-1877)
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
British politician
Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham
British Army general (1797-1876)
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose
British politician (1799-1874)
Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
British peer (1900-1976)
Vernon Hartshorn
British politician (1872-1931)
Hastings Lees-Smith
British politician (1878-1941)
Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
former cabinet position in British government
George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend
British Marquess (1753-1811)
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
British politician (1860-1943)
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
British politician (1802–1869)
Ernest Marples
British Conservative party politician (1907-1978)
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
British politician
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester
British landowner (1697-1759)
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich
British politician
William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
British earl, politician, military intelligence officer (1906-1997)
Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
British politician (1893-1961)
William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough
politician in Britain and Ireland (1704-1793)