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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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

British statesman and author (1803–1873)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)

Joseph Chamberlain

British politician (1836-1914)

English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

British statesman and colonial administrator (1854-1925)

George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

British politician (1827–1909)

Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby

British politician and Governor General of Canada (1841–1908)

British politician and journalist (1873-1955)

Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

British nobleman and politician (1849–1917)

Malcolm MacDonald

British politician and diplomat (1901-1981)

Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon

British politician and leading member of the Conservative Party (1831-1890)

Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne

British politician, businessman and army officer (1880-1944)

Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire

British politician (1868-1938)

Alfred Lyttelton

English cricketer and politician (1857-1913)

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea

British politician (1810-1861)

George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville

British Army general (1716-1785)

Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville

British Liberal statesman (1815-1891)

Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby

British politician (1826–1893)

British politician, cabinet minister and contract bridge player (1913-1970)

Reginald Maudling

British politician (1917–1979)

Secretary of State for the Colonies

British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies

Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

British soldier, politician, and administrator (1823-1889)

Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe

British diplomat (1858-1945)

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury

British Conservative politician (1893–1972)

James Henry Thomas

Welsh trade unionist and politician (1874-1949)

Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn

British politician (1837-1916)

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long

British politician (1854–1924)

British politician (1908-1987)

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

British diplomat (1826-1902)

Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford

British politician (1905-2001)

Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet

British politician

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

British politician (1893-1972)

William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech

British politician and banker (1885-1964)

Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell

British politician (1813-1886)

William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth

British politician

Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton

English politician (1798-1869)

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle

British politician (1811-1864)

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

British Marquess and politician

George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd

British Conservative politician. Governor of Bombay, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Leader of the House of Lords (1879-1941)

British politician (1896–1950)

Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton

British politician (1904-1983)

George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall

British politician (1881-1965)

Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

British politician

Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet

British politician

Edward Stanhope

British Conservative Party politician (1840-1893)

Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale

British Labour Party politician (1911-1982)

Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt

British politician (1863-1922)

British politician (1890-1975)

Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton

British politician (1906-1984)

Arthur Creech Jones

British trade union official and politician (1891-1964)

Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford

British politician (1825-1914)

Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip

English politician (1713-1802)