Edward VIII

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...

, 1936

• Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari (1869–1942)
• Sir George Rich
  George Rich
  Sir George Edward Rich KCMG PC , Australian judge, was a justice of the High Court of Australia.Rich was born in the town of Braidwood, New South Wales, in 1863. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, and later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in...
  
   (1863–1956)
• The Duke of Norfolk
  Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk
  Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, , styled Earl of Arundel and Surrey until 1917, was the eldest surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, who died when Bernard was only 9 years old...
  
   (1908–1975)
• Michael Joseph Savage
  Michael Joseph Savage
  Michael Joseph Savage was the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand.- Early life :Born in Tatong, Victoria, Australia, Savage first became involved in politics while working in that state. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1907. There he worked in a variety of jobs, as a miner, flax-cutter and...
  
   (1872–1940)
• The Earl De La Warr
  Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
  Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr, GBE, PC, DL, JP , styled Lord Buckhurst until 1915 , was a British politician. He was the first hereditary peer to join the Labour Party and became a government minister at the age of 23...
  
   (1900–1976)
• John Colville
  John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir
  David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir PC GCIE was a Scottish Unionist politician, and industrialist...
  
   (1894–1954)
• Euan Wallace
  Euan Wallace
  Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II...
  
   (1892–1941)
• The Duke of Beaufort
  Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
  Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG GCVO KStJ PC was a British peer, the son of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort....
  
   (1900–1984)
• The Duke of Sutherland
  George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland
  George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland PC, KT , styled Earl Gower until 1892 and Marquess of Stafford between 1892 and 1913, was a British courtier, patron of the film industry and Conservative politician...
  
   (1888–1963)
• Hon. Alexander Hardinge
  Alexander Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
  Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst GCB GCVO MC PC was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War....
  
   (1894–1960)
• William Morrison
  William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
  William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC , the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment...
  
   (1893–1961)

1937

• The Lord Hutchison of Montrose
  Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
  Major-General Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose KCMG, CB, DSO, PC was a Scottish soldier and Liberal politician.-Background:Hutchison was the son of Alexander Hutchison, of Braehead, Kirkcaldy, Fife...
  
   (1873–1950)
• Robert Menzies
  Robert Menzies
  Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....
  
   (1894–1978)
• John Stephen Curlewis (1863–1940)
• The Duke of Buccleuch
  Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch
  Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, 10th Duke of Queensberry KT GCVO TD PC was a politician and Conservative peer. He was the son of John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch...
  
   (1894–1973)
• Sir Harry Trelawney Eve
  Harry Trelawney Eve
  Rt. Hon Sir Harry Trelawney Eve was an English barrister, judge and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...
  
   (1856–1940)
• Sir Nevile Henderson
  Nevile Henderson
  Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, KCMG , was the third child of Robert and Emma Henderson and was born at Sedgwick Park near Horsham, West Sussex. Ambassador of Great Britain to Germany from 1937 to 1939, he believed that Adolf Hitler could be controlled and pushed toward peace and cooperation with...
  
   (1882–1942)
• Prince George, Duke of Kent
  Prince George, Duke of Kent
  Prince George, Duke of Kent was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth son of George V and Mary of Teck, and younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI...
  
   (1902–1942)
• Leslie Burgin
  Leslie Burgin
  Edward Leslie Burgin was a British Liberal and later Liberal National politician in the 1930s.Burgin trained as a solicitor specialising in international law and served as principal and director of legal studies to the Law Society...
  
   (1887–1945)
• Ernest Lapointe
  Ernest Lapointe
  Ernest Lapointe, PC was a Canadian lawyer and politician.-Education, early career:Lapointe earned his law degree from Laval University...
  
   (1876–1941)
• Sir Patrick Duncan (1870–1943)
• The Viscount Galway
  George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway
  -External links:* by the office of the Governor-General...
  
   (1882–1943)
• The Lord Gowrie
  Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth Governor-General of Australia. Serving for 9 years and 7 days, he is the longest serving Governor-General in Australia's history...
  
   (1872–1955)
• The Lord Tweedsmuir
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (1875–1940)
• Sir Felix Cassel, Bt (1869–1953)
• Isaac Foot
  Isaac Foot
  -Early life:Isaac Foot was born in Plymouth, the son of a carpenter and undertaker, and educated at Plymouth Public School and the Hoe Grammar School, which he left at the age of 14. He then worked at the Admiralty in London, but returned to Plymouth to train as a solicitor...
  
   (1880–1960)
• Sir George Courthope, Bt
  George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope
  George Loyd Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope PC, MC , known as Sir George Courthope, Bt, from 1925 to 1945, was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:...
  
   (1877–1955)
• Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
  Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence
  Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence PC was a British Labour politician.-Background and education:...
  
   (1871–1962)
• Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill
  Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan
  Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC , known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland....
  
   (1883–1982)
• The Lord Snell (1865–1944)
• Sir Frank Douglas MacKinnon
  Frank Douglas MacKinnon
  Sir Frank Douglas MacKinnon was an English lawyer, judge and writer, the only High Court judge to be appointed during the First Labour Government.-Early life and legal practice:...
  
   (1871–1946)
• Thomas Gardner Horridge
  Thomas Gardner Horridge
  Sir Thomas Gardner Horridge was a British High Court judge and Liberal politician.He was the only son of John Horridge, chemist, of Tonge with Haulgh, and Margaret Barlow of Bolton, Lancashire. He was educated in Barnes, Surrey before becoming a solicitor in Southport in 1879...
  
   (1857–1938)
• Sir George John Talbot (1861–1938)
• Sir Robert Leslie Craigie (1883–1959)
• Sir John Anderson
  John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
  John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer...
  
   (1882–1958)

1938

• Robert Hudson
  Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson
  Robert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson CH PC was a British Conservative Party politician who held a number of ministerial posts during the Second World War....
  
   (1886–1957)
• The Earl of Lucan
  George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
  Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan GCVO, KBE, CB, PC, TD, DL , known as Lord Bingham from 1888 to 1914, was a British Conservative politician....
  
   (1860–1949)
• Sir Albert Clauson
  Albert Clauson, 1st Baron Clauson
  Albert Charles Clauson, 1st Baron Clauson CBE KC PC was a British barrister and judge who sat as a Lord Justice of Appeal.-Background and education:...
  
   (1870–1946)
• The Lord Porter
  Samuel Porter, Baron Porter
  Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter was a British judge.On 28 March 1938, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and created a life peer with the title Baron Porter, of Longfield in County Tyrone. A month later, he was invested to the Privy Council. Porter resigned as Lord of Appeal in...
  
   (1877–1956)
• James Stratford (1869–1952)
• Sir Donald Somervell (1889–1960)
• The Viscount Finlay (1875–1945)
• Sir Arthur Luxmoore
  Arthur Luxmoore
  Sir Arthur Fairfax Charles Coryndon Luxmoore KC PC was a British barrister and judge who sat as a Lord Justice of Appeal-Life:...
  
   (1876–1944)
• Sir Rayner Goddard
  Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard
  Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1946 to 1958 and known for his strict sentencing and conservative views. He was nicknamed the 'Tiger' and "Justice-in-a-jiffy" for his no-nonsense manner...
  
   (1877–1971)
• Sir Herbert du Parcq
  Herbert du Parcq, Baron du Parcq
  Herbert du Parcq, Baron du Parcq PC, KC was a British judge.Herbert du Parcq was born in Saint Helier, Jersey in 1880, son of Clement Pixley du Parcq and Sophia Thoreau. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Exeter College, Oxford ) and Jesus College, Oxford...
  
   (1880–1949)

1939

• The Viscount Chilston
  Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston
  Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston GCMG, PC , was a British diplomat. He was Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1933 and 1938.-Background and education:...
  
   (1876–1947)
• R. A. Butler (1902–1982)
• Harry Crookshank
  Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
  Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank CH, PC , was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1952....
  
   (1893–1961)
• Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith
  Reginald Dorman-Smith
  Colonel Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith GBE was a British diplomat, soldier and politician.-In politics:Dorman-Smith started his career with a strong interest in agriculture, becoming President of the National Farmers Union at the age of 32, and then later Minister of Agriculture...
  
   (1899–1977)
• The Lord Chatfield
  Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield
  Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO, PC was a Royal Navy officer and held the position of First Sea Lord from 1933 to 1939...
  
   (1873–1967)
• Mukund Ramras Jayakar (d. 1959)
• Richard Casey
  Richard Casey, Baron Casey
  Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC was an Australian politician, diplomat and the 16th Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...
  
   (1890–1976)
• Hon. James Stuart
  James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
  James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn CH MVO MC and Bar PC was a Scottish Unionist politician.Born in Edinburgh, Stuart was the son of Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray, and Edith Douglas Palmer....
  
   (1897–1971)
• Herwald Ramsbotham
  Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
  Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician. He was a government minister between 1931 and 1941 and served as Governor-General of Ceylon between 1949 and 1954....
  
   (1887–1971)
• Sir Philip James Macdonell (1873–1940)
• The Marquess of Lothian
  Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
  Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian KT CH PC was a British politician and diplomat.Philip Kerr was the son of Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, the third son of John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian...
  
   (1882–1940)
• The Lord Hankey
  Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
  Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...
  
   (1877–1963)
• Geoffrey Fisher
  Geoffrey Fisher
  Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, GCVO, PC was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961.-Background:...
  
   (1887–1972)
• Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell
  Ronald Hugh Campbell
  Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, PC, GCMG was a British diplomat who held several important positions at the Foreign Office including, from July 1939 to 22 June 1940, when the armistice between Germany and France was signed at Compiègne, that of British ambassador to France...
  
   (1883–1953)
• Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet
  Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet
  Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet was Chief Justice of South Africa and acting Governor-General from 1943 to 1945.Born in 1873, he obtained a law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1895 and was admitted as an advocate in 1896...
  
   (1873–1960)

1940

• Sir Andrew Rae Duncan (1884–1952)
• Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson (1871–1951)
• Sir John Reith
  John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
  John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom...
  
   (1889–1971)
• The Lord Woolton (1883–1964)
• Ernest Bevin
  Ernest Bevin
  Ernest Bevin was a British trade union leader and Labour politician. He served as general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1945, as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government.-Early...
  
   (1881–1951)
• Brendan Bracken
  Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken
  Brendan Randell Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken PC was an Irish businessman and a minister in the British Conservative cabinet. Primarily, the 1st Viscount Bracken is remembered for opposing the Bank of England's co-operation with Adolf Hitler, and for subsequently supporting Winston Churchill's...
  
   (1901–1958)
• Sir Walter Citrine
  Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine
  Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, GBE, PC was a British trade unionist and politician....
  
   (1887–1983)
• Ronald Cross (1896–1968)
• Hugh Dalton
  Hugh Dalton
  Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....
  
   (1887–1962)
• Sir Charles Edwards
  Charles Edwards (UK politician)
  Sir Charles Edwards was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Edwards was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for the newly-created Bedwellty constituency in Monmouthshire...
  
   (1867–1954)
• Sir Percy Harris, Bt
  Sir Percy Harris, 1st Baronet
  Sir Percy Alfred Harris, 1st Baronet PC was a British Liberal Party politician.Born in Kensington, Harris was educated at Harrow and Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was called to the bar...
  
   (1876–1952)
• Sir Robert Vansittart
  Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
  Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart GCB, GCMG, PC, MVO was a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War...
  
   (1881–1957)
• Peter Fraser (1884–1950)
• The Duke of Hamilton
  Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
  Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, KT, GCVO, AFC, PC, DL, FRCSE, FRGS, was a Scottish nobleman and pioneering aviator....
  
   (1903–1973)
• Viscount Cranborne
  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
   (1893–1972)
• John Moore-Brabazon
  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
  John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician...
  
   (1884–1964)
• Oliver Lyttelton
  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...
  
   (1893–1972)
• Arthur Blaikie Purvis (1890–1941)

1941

• Douglas Clifton Brown
  Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside
  Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside PC, DL, JP was a British politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1943 to 1951.-Background and education:...
  
   (1879–1958)
• Sir Walter Womersley (1878–1961)
• Sir Arthur Salter (1881–1975)
• Frederick Leathers
  Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers
  Frederick James Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers CH PC was a British industrialist and public servant....
  
   (1883–1965)
• John Jestyn Llewellin
  John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
  Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...
  
   (1893–1957)
• Vincent Massey
  Vincent Massey
  Charles Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (1887–1967)
• James Reid
  James Reid, Baron Reid
  James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, CH, KC FRSE was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century....
  
   (1890–1975)
• Sir Miles Lampson
  Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
  Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, GCMG, CB, MVO, PC was a British diplomat.-Background and education:...
  
   (1880–1964)
• Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps
  Stafford Cripps
  Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...
  
   (1889–1952)
• Raoul Dandurand
  Raoul Dandurand
  Raoul Dandurand, PC was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada....
  
   (1861–1942)
• Gwilym Lloyd George
  Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby
  Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....
  
   (1894–1967)
• Harold Balfour
  Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye
  Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye MC & Bar was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and First World War flying ace...
  
   (1897–1988)
• Tom Williams
  Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh
  "Tom" Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, PC was a British coal miner who became a Labour Party politician.-Career:...
  
   (1888–1967)
• Sir Sidney Abrahams
  Sidney Abrahams
  Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams , nicknamed Solly, was a British Olympic athlete and Chief Justice of Ceylon . He was the older brother of famed Olympian Harold Abrahams....
  
   (1885–1957)
• Sir Chattur Madhavan Nair (1879–1971)

1942

• Harold Macmillan
  Harold Macmillan
  Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....
  
   (1894–1986)
• Sir P. J. Grigg
  P. J. Grigg
  Sir Percy James Grigg PC , better known as Sir P. J. Grigg was a British civil servant who was surprisingly moved from being the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office to become Secretary of State for War, the political head of the same department during the Second World...
  
   (1890–1964)
• The Lord Portal
  Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal
  Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal PC GCMG DSO MVO was a British politician.The eldest son of Sir William Wyndam Portal, 2nd Baronet, and Florence Elizabeth Mary Glyn CBE, daughter of Hon...
  
   (1885–1949)
• John Curtin
  John Curtin
  John Joseph Curtin , Australian politician, served as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia. Labor under Curtin formed a minority government in 1941 after the crossbench consisting of two independent MPs crossed the floor in the House of Representatives, bringing down the Coalition minority...
  
   (1885–1945)
• Arthur Fadden
  Arthur Fadden
  Sir Arthur William Fadden, GCMG was an Australian politician and, briefly, the 13th Prime Minister of Australia.-Introduction:...
  
   (1895–1973)
• H. V. Evatt
  H. V. Evatt
  Herbert Vere Evatt, QC KStJ , was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948–49 and helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
  
   (1894–1965)
• Cyril Garbett
  Cyril Garbett
  Cyril Forster Garbett GCVO PC was an Anglican clergyman, and Archbishop of York from 1942 until 1955.-Early life:...
  
   (1875–1955)
• George Hall (1881–1965)

1943

• The Lord Cherwell
  Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...
  
   (1886–1957)
• Richard Law
  Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine
  Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC was a British Conservative politician. He was the youngest son of former Conservative Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law and his wife Annie. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St...
  
   (1901–1980)
• Osbert Peake
  Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby
  Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955....
  
   (1897–1966)
• William Whiteley
  William Whiteley (politician)
  William Whiteley, CH, PC, DL was the Labour Member of Parliament for Blaydon in County Durham.William Whiteley, not to be confused with the founder of the Department Store of the same name, was a Durham miner by background and lodge official also...
  
   (1882–1955)
• The Lord Templemore
  Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
  Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore, KCVO, OBE, DSO - was a British soldier and politician...
  
   (1880–1953)
• Geoffrey Lloyd (1902–1984)
• Joseph Westwood
  Joseph Westwood
  Joseph Westwood was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Buckhaven Higher Grade School, he worked as a draper's apprentice, messenger boy and miner...
  
   (1884–1948)
• Harcourt Johnstone
  Harcourt Johnstone
  Harcourt 'Crinks' Johnstone was a British Liberal Party politician.-Early Life & Education:Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American wife Antoinette Pinchot. His nickname 'Crinks' is alleged to have derived from the wrinkled...
  
   (1895–1945)
• Sir Alan Lascelles
  Alan Lascelles
  Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and to Queen Elizabeth II...
  
   (1887–1981)
• The Viscount Wavell
  Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
  Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC was a British field marshal and the commander of British Army forces in the Middle East during the Second World War. He led British forces to victory over the Italians, only to be defeated by the German army...
  
   (1883–1950)
• Henry Willink (1894–1973)
• Ernest Frederick Watermeyer (1880–1958)
• Ben Smith
  Ben Smith (British Labour politician)
  Sir Benjamin Smith, PC was a Labour Party politician in England. A driver of one of London's first taxicabs, he was Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe from 1923 until 1931 and from 1935 until 1946...
  
   (1879–1964)

1944

• Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (1882–1951)
• Ralph Assheton
  Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe
  Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC was a British Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955.In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of...
  
   (1901–1984)
• William Mabane (1895–1969)
• Wilfred Paling
  Wilfred Paling
  Wilfred Paling was a British Labour politician. He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered casual employment with local plumbing and building companies...
  
   (1883–1971)
• Charles Waterhouse
  Charles Waterhouse (English politician)
  Captain Charles Waterhouse PC MC was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:Born in Salford, the second surviving son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of Lomberdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, he was educated at Cheltenham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an MA degree in...
  
   (1893–1975)
• Sir Gavin Simonds
  Gavin Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds
  Gavin Turnbull Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds PC, KC was a British judge, politician and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...
  
   (1881–1971)
• James Chuter Ede
  James Chuter Ede
  James Chuter Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede CH, PC, DL was a British teacher, trade unionist and Labour politician. He notably served as Home Secretary under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Early life:...
  
   (1882–1965)
• Frank Forde
  Frank Forde
  Francis Michael Forde PC was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia. He was the shortest serving Prime Minister in Australia's history, being in office for only eight days.-Early life:...
  
   (1890–1983)
• Hon. Sir Geoffrey Lawrence
  Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey
  Geoffrey Lawrence, 3rd Baron Trevethin, 1st Baron Oaksey, DSO, TD, KC, PC was the main British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II, and President of the Judicial group.-Early life:...
  
   (1880–1971)
• Sir John William Fisher Beaumont (1877–1974)
• Sir Fergus Morton
  Fergus Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton
  Fergus Dunlop Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton PC, MC was a British judge and law lord.-Background and education:...
  
   (1887–1973)
• Duncan Sandys
  Duncan Sandys
  Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   (1908–1987)
• Sir Edward Grigg
  Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham
  Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC, PC was a British colonial administrator and politician.-Early years:...
  
   (1879–1955)

1945

• Florence Horsbrugh
  Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh
  Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh, GBE, PC was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician....
  
   (1889–1969)
• Ellen Wilkinson
  Ellen Wilkinson
  Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...
  
   (1891–1947)
• Sir Richard Hopkins (1880–1955)
• The Earl of Rosebery
  Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
  Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery and 2nd Earl of Midlothian , known by his third name of Harry, was a UK politician who briefly served as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1945...
  
   (1882–1974)
• The Lord Croft
  Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
  Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft was a British Conservative Party politician.-Early life and family:He was born at Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Benyon Croft a naval officer and a major benefactor of the Richard Hale School, and Anne Elizabeth...
  
   (1881–1947)
• Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
  David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir GCVO, PC, KC, , known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as The Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions...
  
   (1900–1967)
• Jack Lawson
  Jack Lawson
  John James "Jack" Lawson, 1st Baron Lawson PC , was a British trade unionist and a Labour politician. A miner and later Member of Parliament in County Durham, he served in the governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee.-Background:Lawson was born in the port town of Whitehaven, Cumberland,...
  
   (1881–1965)
• James Milner
  James Milner, 1st Baron Milner of Leeds
  Major James Milner, 1st Baron Milner of Leeds, MC, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Milner was educated at the University of Leeds and became a solicitor. He was a major in World War I and was wounded, awarded the Military Cross and bar for his service...
  
   (1889–1967)
• Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Bt
  Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet
  Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet PC was a British Liberal Party politician.Born in Norwich, the second son of Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, he was educated at Highgate School. He served in World War I. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated with an MA and an LLB degree...
  
   (1893–1980)
• Will Thorne
  Will Thorne
  William James Thorne CBE , known as Will Thorne, was a British trade unionist, activist and one of the first Labour Members of Parliament .-Early years:...
  
   (1857–1946)
• Henry Graham White
  Henry Graham White
  Henry Graham White was a British Liberal Party politician. He was educated at Birkenhead School and Liverpool University.-Politics:...
  
   (1880–1965)
• Ben Chifley
  Ben Chifley
  Joseph Benedict Chifley , Australian politician, was the 16th Prime Minister of Australia. He took over the Australian Labor Party leadership and Prime Ministership after the death of John Curtin in 1945, and went on to retain government at the 1946 election, before being defeated at the 1949...
  
   (1885–1951)
• Alfred Barnes (1887–1974)
• George Isaacs
  George Isaacs
  George Alfred Isaacs JP DL was a British politician and trades unionist who served in the government of Clement Attlee....
  
   (1883–1979)
• John Wilmot
  John Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston
  John Charles Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston PC was a British Labour Party politician. He served under Clement Attlee as Minister of Aircraft Production from 1945 to 1946 and as Minister of Supply from 1945 to 1947....
  
   (1895–1964)
• Aneurin Bevan
  Aneurin Bevan
  Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a British Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people...
  
   (1897–1960)
• Manny Shinwell (1884–1986)
• George Thomson (1893–1962)
• John W. C. Wand (1885–1977)
• The Lord Winster
  Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster
  Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster PC was a British Liberal then Labour politician. He was Minister of Supply under Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1946 and Governor of Cyprus between 1946 and 1949....
  
   (1885–1961)
• Jim Griffiths
  Jim Griffiths
  James "Jim" Griffiths CH , was a Welsh Labour politician, trade union leader and the first ever Secretary of State for Wales.-Background and education:...
  
   (1890–1975)
• Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bt (1876–1964)
• Malcolm McCorquodale
  Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale
  Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
   (1901–1971)
• Lewis Silkin
  Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin
  Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin CH , was a British Labour Party politician.Silkin worked as a solicitor, before becoming a member of the London County Council in 1925. He chaired the LCC Town Planning and the Housing and Public Health Committees and was a member of the Central Housing Advisory...
  
   (1889–1972)
• George Tomlinson
  George Tomlinson
  George Tomlinson was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Rishton, Lancashire, he was a conscientious objector in the First World War, and worked on the land....
  
   (1890–1952)
• Edward John Williams (1890–1963)
• The Lord Ammon
  Charles Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
  Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon PC DL JP was a British Labour Party politician.-Background and education:The son of Charles George and Mary Ammon, he was educated at Public Elementary schools.-Career:...
  
   (1873–1960)
• The Duke of Abercorn
  James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn
  James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn KG, KP, PC , styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician. He was the first Governor of Northern Ireland, a post he held between 1922 and 1945...
  
   (1869–1953)
• Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)
• Sir Frederick Tucker
  Frederick Tucker, Baron Tucker
  Frederick James Tucker, Baron Tucker PC was a British judge.Tucker was called to the Bar in 1914, was Recorder of Southampton in 1936-37, was Justice of High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division between 1937 to 1945...
  
   (1888–1975)
• Gideon Brand van Zyl
  Gideon Brand van Zyl
  Gideon Brand van Zyl was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1945 to 1950. He was the first South African-born holder of the office....
  
   (1873–1956)
• Philip Noel-Baker
  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
  by Philip Noel-Baker with other authorsby others* Lloyd, Lorna: Philip Noel-Baker and the Peace Through Law in -External links:...
  
   (1889–1982)
• Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963)

1946

• Sir Travers Humphreys
  Travers Humphreys
  The Rt. Hon. Sir Travers Humphreys PC was a noted British barrister and judge who, during a sixty year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde, Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith, the 'Brides in the Bath' murderer, and John George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer'.-Legal...
  
   (1867–1956)
• Louis St. Laurent
  Louis St. Laurent
  Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC , was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957....
  
   (1882–1973)
• James Lorimer Ilsley
  James Lorimer Ilsley
  James Lorimer Ilsley, PC, KC was a Canadian politician and jurist.He was born in Somerset, Nova Scotia, the son of Randel Ilsley and Catherine Caldwell. Ilsley was educated at Acadia University and Dalhousie University and was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1916. In 1919, he married Evelyn Smith...
  
   (1894–1967)
• Walter Nash
  Walter Nash
  Sir Walter Nash, GCMG, CH served as the 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand in the Second Labour Government from 1957 to 1960, and was also highly influential in his role as Minister of Finance...
  
   (1882–1968)
• The Lord Uthwatt
  Augustus Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt
  Augustus Andrewes Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt PC, QC was an Australian-born British judge.-Background:Born in Ballarat, Victoria, he was the son of Thomas Andrewes Uthwatt and his wife Annie Hazlizz...
  
   (1879–1949)
• John Albert Beasley (1895–1949)
• Hon. Sir Cyril Asquith
  Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone
  Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone PC, QC was an English barrister, judge and law lord.Cyril Asquith was the fourth son of H. H. Asquith, later Prime Minister and subsequently Earl of Oxford and Asquith, from his first marriage, to Helen Kelsall Melland.He was educated at Winchester...
  
   (1890–1954)
• Sir Lionel Cohen
  Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen
  Lionel Leonard Cohen, Baron Cohen PC , was a British judge.Invested to the privy council in 1946, Cohen was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1946 to 1951. On 12 November 1951, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Cohen, of Walmer in the...
  
   (1888–1973)
• William Joseph Jordan
  William Joseph Jordan
  Sir William Joseph Jordan, KCMG, Privy Councillor, was a New Zealand Labour Party Member of Parliament, and New Zealand's longest-serving High Commissioner to Great Britain from 1935 to 1951.-Early life:...
  
   (1879–1959)
• John Strachey (1901–1963)
• Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan (1884–1968)
• The Viscount Mersey (1872–1956)
• C. D. Howe
  C. D. Howe
  Clarence Decatur Howe, PC , generally known as C. D. Howe, was a powerful Canadian Cabinet minister of the Liberal Party. Howe served in the governments of Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent continuously from 1935 to 1957...
  
   (1886–1960)
• The Earl of Listowel
  William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
  William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel GCMG, PC , styled Viscount Ennismore between 1924 and 1931, was a British peer and Labour politician...
  
   (1906–1997)
• Sir Hartley Shawcross
  Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
  Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, KC was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.- Early life :...
  
   (1902–2003)
• The Lord Nathan
  Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan
  Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan, PC was a Liberal politician, who later joined the Labour Party....
  
   (1889–1963)
• Frederick Bellenger
  Frederick Bellenger
  Captain Frederick John Bellenger was a British surveyor, journalist, soldier and Labour Party politician.-Soldier:...
  
   (1894–1968)
• Arthur Creech Jones
  Arthur Creech Jones
  Arthur Creech Jones was a British trade union official and politician. Originally a civil servant, his imprisonment as a conscientious objector during the First World War forced him to change careers. A protégé of Ernest Bevin, he was elected to Parliament in 1935 and served in the Colonial Office...
  
   (1891–1964)
• Hector McNeil
  Hector McNeil
  Hector McNeil PC was a Scottish Labour politician.McNeil was educated at Woodside School and the University of Glasgow, trained as an engineer and worked as a journalist on a Scottish national newspaper. He was a member of Glasgow Town Council 1932-8...
  
   (1907–1955)

1947

• Clement Davies
  Clement Davies
  Clement Edward Davies KC, MP was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.-Life:...
  
   (1884–1962)
• Ian Alistair Mackenzie
  Ian Alistair Mackenzie
  Ian Alistair Mackenzie, PC was a Canadian parliamentarian.Born in Assynt, Scotland, Mackenzie entered politics by winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 1920 BC election...
  
   (1890–1949)
• Glenvil Hall
  Glenvil Hall
  William George Glenvil Hall PC , known as Glenvil Hall, was a British barrister and Labour politician....
  
   (1887–1962)
• Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley
  Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Arthur Henderson was the son of Arthur Henderson, who was Leader of the Labour Party between 1908-1910, 1914-17 and 1931-1932.-Parliament:...
  
   (1893–1968)
• James Garfield Gardiner
  James Garfield Gardiner
  James Garfield "Jimmy" Gardiner, PC was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician...
  
   (1883–1962)
• Charles Key
  Charles Key
  Charles William Key, PC was a British schoolmaster and politician. Coming from a very working-class background, the generosity of a family friend made it possible for him to get a start in life and train as a teacher; he entered politics through Poplar Borough Council, and was elected to...
  
   (1883–1964)
• The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
  Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
  
   (1900–1979)
• The Lord Inman
  Philip Inman, 1st Baron Inman
  Philip Inman, 1st Baron Inman PC was a British Labour politician.-Background and education:Inman was the son of Philip Inman , of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, by his wife Hannah Bickerdyke, of Great Ouseburn, Yorkshire. He was educated at Headingley College, Leeds, and Leeds University...
  
   (1892–1979)
• Alexander Moncreiff (1870–1949)
• Sir Frederic John Wrottesley (1880–1948)
• Sir Raymond Evershed
  Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed
  Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed PC, KC was British judge who served as Master of the Rolls, and subsequently became a Law Lord .-Background and education:...
  
   (1899–1966)
• John MacDermott
  John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott
  John Clarke MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, MC PC was a Northern Irish politician and lawyer who was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1951 to 1971....
  
   (1896–1979)
• George Mathers
  George Mathers
  George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers KT, PC, DL was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party politician...
  
   (1886–1965)
• Sir Godfrey Huggins
  Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern
  Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, CH, KCMG, PC was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1956, becoming the...
  
   (1883–1971)
• The Lord Catto
  Thomas Catto, 1st Baron Catto
  Thomas Sivewright Catto, 1st Baron Catto CBE PC was a Scottish businessman and later Governor of the Bank of England.-Early life and education:Catto was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, to William and Isabella Catto...
  
   (1879–1959)
• Sir Norman Birkett (1883–1962)
• Ness Edwards
  Ness Edwards
  Onesimus Edwards was a Welsh Labour Party politician.A trade unionist, Ness Edwards was imprisoned in 1917 as a conscientious objector to the conscription of the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for Caerphilly at a by-election in 1939 following the death of Labour MP and...
  
   (1897–1968)
• Harold Wilson
  Harold Wilson
  James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
  
   (1916–1995)
• Thibaudeau Rinfret
  Thibaudeau Rinfret
  Thibaudeau Rinfret, PC was a Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada and acting Governor General of Canada in 1952.-Personal life:...
  
   (1879–1962)
• Hugh Gaitskell
  Hugh Gaitskell
  Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE was a British Labour politician, who held Cabinet office in Clement Attlee's governments, and was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955, until his death in 1963.-Early life:He was born in Kensington, London, the third and youngest...
  
   (1906–1963)
• John Wheatley (1908–1988)
• Arthur Woodburn
  Arthur Woodburn
  Arthur Woodburn was a Scottish Labour politician.Born in Edinburgh, he was educated at Heriot Watt College. Imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War I, Woodburn worked in engineering and ironfounding administration, and was a lecturer and national secretary of the Scottish Labour...
  
   (1890–1978)
• George Strauss
  George Strauss
  George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979....
  
   (1901–1993)

1948

• Sir Malcolm Macnaghten
  Malcolm Macnaghten
  Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten KBE , was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician and judge, the fourth son of Lord Macnaghten, Bt.....
  
   (1869–1955)
• George Buchanan
  George Buchanan (politician)
  George Buchanan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party .Buchanan was vice-chairman of Glasgow Trades Council and sat on the city council from 1919 to 1923...
  
   (1890–1955)
• David Kirkwood
  David Kirkwood
  David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, PC was a socialist from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, viewed as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era.Kirkwood was educated at Parkhead Public School and was trained as an engineer....
  
   (1872–1955)
• William McKell
  William McKell
  Sir William John McKell GCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, and was the 12th Governor-General of Australia. He was also the oldest Governor General of Australia, at 93 when he died....
  
   (1891–1985)
• Sir Humphrey O'Leary
  Humphrey O'Leary
  Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary, KCMG, KC was the seventh Chief Justice of New Zealand, from 1946 to 1953.Born in Blenheim in 1886, his father was a blacksmith who had migrated to Masterton...
  
   (1886–1953)
• George Heaton Nicholls (1876–1959)
• The Lord Pakenham
  Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
  Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford KG, PC , known as the Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician, author, and social reformer...
  
   (1905–2001)
• Sir Frank Soskice (1902–1979)
• Sir John Edward Singleton (1885–1957)
• Alfred Denning
  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
  Alfred Thompson "Tom" Denning, Baron Denning, OM, PC, DL, KC , commonly known as Lord Denning, was a British soldier, mathematician, lawyer and judge. He gained degrees in mathematics and law at Oxford University, although his studies were disrupted by his service in the First World War...
  
   (1899–1999)

1949

• The Lord Hailey
  William Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey
  William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC , known as Sir Malcolm Hailey between 1921 and 1936, was a British peer and administrator in British India.-Education:...
  
   (1872–1969)
• Hilary Marquand
  Hilary Marquand
  Hilary Adair Marquand was a British Labour Party politician.He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff where he studied history and economics...
  
   (1901–1972)
• Edith Summerskill
  Edith Summerskill
  Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill CH PC was a British physician, feminist, misandrist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.-Early life:...
  
   (1901–1980)
• Sir David Jenkins
  David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins
  David Llewelyn Jenkins, Baron Jenkins PC was a British judge.-Background:Born in Exmouth, he was the third son of Sir John Lewis Jenkins and his wife Florence Mildred, second daughter of Sir Arthur Trevor. Jenkins was educated at Charterhouse School and fought then with the 12th Battalion, Rifle...
  
   (1899–1969)
• The Lord Radcliffe
  Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe
  Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe GBE, PC, QC was a British lawyer and Law Lord most famous for his partitioning of the British Imperial territory of India.-Background, education and early career:...
  
   (1899–1977)
• The Lord Morrison
  Robert Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison
  Robert Craigmyle Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Born in Aberdeen, he was the son of James Morrison. He originally worked as a schoolmaster in the Middlesex suburbs of North London...
  
   (1881–1953)
• John Dugdale
  John Dugdale (Labour politician)
  John Dugdale was a British newspaper journalist and politician. Well-connected with the Labour Party establishment, he worked as Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and was appointed a Minister in his post-war government....
  
   (1905–1963)
• Sir Oliver Franks (1905–1992)
• William Donald Patrick
  William Donald Patrick
  William Donald Patrick was a British judge who represented the United Kingdom at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East following World War II. Born in Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland, Patrick served in the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force during World War I-References:...
  
   (1889–1967)
• Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach (1883–1960)

1950

• Sir Ronald Ian Campbell
  Ronald Ian Campbell
  Sir Ronald Ian Campbell CB, GCMG, PC was a British diplomat.Campbell was the second son of Sir Guy Campbell, 3rd Baronet , by Nina, daughter of Frederick Lehmann. He was educated at Eton and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1912 with a Bachelor of Arts...
  
   (1890–1983)
• Jack Holloway (1875–1967)
• Don Stephen Senanayake
  Don Stephen Senanayake
  Don Stephen Senanayake was an independence activist who served as the first Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1947 to 1952.-Early life:...
  
   (1884–1952)
• Patrick Gordon Walker
  Patrick Gordon Walker
  Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister...
  
   (1907–1980)
• Maurice Webb
  Maurice Webb (politician)
  Maurice Webb PC was a British Labour politician.Webb joined the Labour Party in 1922 as a teenager and was a well-known political journalist, including for the Daily Herald. From 1929 to 1935 he worked as the Party's propaganda officer...
  
   (1904–1956)
• Richard Stokes
  Richard Stokes
  Major Sir Richard Rapier Stokes MC was a British Labour politician who served briefly as Lord Privy Seal in 1951....
  
   (1897–1957)
• Sidney Holland
  Sidney Holland
  Sir Sidney George Holland, GCMG, CH was the 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 13 December 1949 to 20 September 1957.-Early life:...
  
   (1893–1963)
• The Lord Henderson
  William Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson
  William Watson Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson PC , was a British Labour politician.-Background:Henderson was the second son of Arthur Henderson and the elder brother of Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley.-Political career:...
  
   (1891–1984)

1951

• The Earl of Drogheda (1884–1957)
• The Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor
  Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor
  Gordon Macdonald, PC, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada...
  
   (1888–1966)
• Sir Charles Hodson
  Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson
  Francis Lord Charlton Hodson, Baron Hodson PC, KC, MC , always known as Charles Hodson, was a British judge.The son of Reverend Thomas Hodson, he was educated in Cheltenham College...
  
   (1895–1984)
• Sir Owen Dixon
  Owen Dixon
  Sir Owen Dixon, OM, GCMG, KC Australian judge and diplomat, was the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. A justice of the High Court for thirty-five years, Dixon was one of the leading jurists in the English-speaking world and is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever jurist.-Education:Dixon...
  
   (1886–1972)
• Alfred Robens
  Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham
  Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham CBE PC was an English trade unionist, Labour politician and industrialist...
  
   (1910–1999)
• George Brown
  George Brown, Baron George-Brown
  George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s...
  
   (1914–1985)
• Sir John Morris
  John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest
  John William Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest CH, PC, MC was a British judge.In 1914, with the beginning of the First World War, Morris served in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers until its end...
  
   (1896–1979)
• David Grenfell
  David Grenfell
  David Rhys Grenfell PC, CBE, LlD was a British Member of Parliament. He represented the Gower constituency for the Labour Party from 1922 to 1959.-Early life:...
  
   (1881–1968)
• Kenneth Younger
  Kenneth Younger
  Sir Kenneth Gilmour Younger KBE was a British Labour politician and barrister who served in junior government posts during the Attlee government and was an opposition spokesman under Hugh Gaitskell but retired from Parliament early, disillusioned by party politics.-Family:Younger was the son of...
  
   (1908–1976)
• The Lord Ogmore
  David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore
  David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, PC, TD was a Welsh politician.Rees-Williams was born in Bridgend, Wales. He qualified as a solicitor in 1929 and married and had three children...
  
   (1903–1976)
• The Lord Ismay
  Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
  General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952...
  
   (1887–1965)
• Sir Walter Monckton
  Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC was a British politician.-Early years:...
  
   (1891–1965)
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
  Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes
  Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes, GBE, CH , was a British Conservative politician and the only Governor-General of the short-lived West Indies Federation, from 3 January 1958, to 31 May 1962, when the country was disbanded.-Background and education:Buchan-Hepburn was the...
  
   (1901–1974)
• Selwyn Lloyd
  Selwyn Lloyd
  John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...
  
   (1904–1978)
• Peter Thorneycroft (1909–1994)
• The Lord de L'Isle and Dudley
  William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle
  William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle and 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley VC KG GCMG GCVO KStJ PC , was the 15th Governor-General of Australia and the final non-Australian to hold the office...
  
   (1909–1991)
• James Thomas
  James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin
  James Purdon Lewes "Jim" Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin was a British Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1951 and 1956.-Background and education:...
  
   (1903–1960)
• David Eccles
  David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
  David McAdam Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles and 1st Viscount Eccles, CH, KCVO, MP, PC was an English Conservative politician....
  
   (1904–1999)
• Anthony Head (1906–1983)
• Sir Thomas Dugdale, Bt (1897–1977)
• Alan Lennox-Boyd
  Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
  Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician.-Background, education and military service:...
  
   (1904–1983)
• James Latham Clyde (1898–1975)
• The Earl of Home
  Alec Douglas-Home
  Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...
  
   (1903–1995)
• Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh
  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
  
   (b. 1926)
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....
  
   (b. 1921)
• Sir Charles Robert Ritchie Romer (1897–1969)

1952

• The Lord Shepherd
  George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
  George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC , was a British Labour politician.-Early life:Shepherd was the son of George Robert Shepherd, a tailor of Spalding, Lincolnshire...
  
   (1881–1954)
• Arthur Bottomley
  Arthur Bottomley
  Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, OBE, PC was a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament and minister....
  
   (1907–1995)
• Douglas Jay
  Douglas Jay, Baron Jay
  Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, Jay became a Fellow of All Souls between 1930 and 1937...
  
   (1907–1996)
• Robert Taylor
  Robert Taylor (Labour politician)
  Robert John Taylor, PC was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for the Morpeth constituency in Northumberland, and held the seat until his death in 1954, aged 73.In Clement Attlee's post-war Labour Government, he was a Lord of the...
  
   (1881–1954)
• Charles Williams
  Charles Williams (UK politician)
  Charles Williams PC was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was Member of Parliament for constituencies in Devon from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1955....
  
  (1886–1955)