Asquith, Herbert (1852–1928), fellow of Balliol College, Oxford 1874–82; journalist, The Spectator, The Economist 1876–88; barrister, QC 1890; MP 1886–1918, 1920–4; home secretary 1892–5; barrister 1895–1905; chancellor of the exchequer 1905–08; prime minister 1908–16; leader of the Liberal Party 1916–26; earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1924.
Attlee, Clement (1883–1967), social worker, east London 1907–12; lecturer, London School of Economics 1912–14; war service in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, France 1914–18; MP 1922–55; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1930–1; leader of the Labour Party 1935–55; Lord Privy Seal 1940–2; deputy prime minister 1942–5; prime minister 1945–51; earl 1955.
Baldwin, Stanley (1867–1947), MP 1908–-37; president of the Board of Trade 1921–2; chancellor of the exchequer 1922–3; leader of the Conservative Party 1923–7; prime minister 1923–January 1924, November 1924–9; Lord President of the Council 1931–5; prime minister 1935–7; earl 1937.
Balfour, Arthur J. (1848–1930), secretary for Scotland 1886–7; chief secretary for Ireland 1887–91; leader of the Conservative Party 1902–11; prime minister 1902–5; First Lord of the Admiralty 1915–16; foreign secretary 1916–19; Lord President of the Council 1925–9; earl of Balfour 1922.
Bridgeman, William (1864–1935), MP Oswestry 1906–29; secretary for mines 1920–2; home secretary 1922–4; First Lord of the Admiralty 1924–9; viscount 1929.
Bullock, Alan (1914–2004), journalist, BBC 1939–45; fellow, New College, Oxford 1945–52; author Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952); censor, St Catherine’s Society, Oxford 1952–62, master, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford 1962–80; Vice-chancellor, Oxford University 1969–73; knighted 1972, baron 1976.
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry (1836–1908), partner of family drapery business, Glasgow 1860; MP 1868–1908; financial secretary to the War Office 1871–4, 1880–2, to the Admiralty 1882–4; chief secretary for Ireland 1884–5; secretary of state for war 1886, 1892–5; leader of the Liberal Party 1899–1908; prime minister 1905–8; knighted 1895.
Cazalet, Victor (1893–1943), Military Cross, 1917; MP 1924–43; killed in the same air crash as General Sikorski, 1943.
Chamberlain, Austen (1863–1937), son of Joseph Chamberlain; postmaster general 1902–3; chancellor of the exchequer 1903–5, 1919–21; secretary of state for India 1915–17; leader of the Conservative Party 1921–2; Lord Privy Seal, leader of the House of Commons 1921–2; foreign secretary 1924–9; First Lord of the Admiralty 1931; winner, Nobel peace prize 1925; knighted 1925.
Chamberlain, Neville (1869–1940), son of Joseph Chamberlain, half-brother of Austen; minister of health 1923, 1924–9, 1931; chancellor of the exchequer 1923–4, 1931–7; prime minister 1937–40; Lord President of the Council 1940.
Curzon, George (1859–1925) MP 1886–98, under-secretary of state for India 1891–2, for foreign affairs 1895–8; viceroy of India 1899–1905; minister, Coalition Government 1915; leader of the House of Lords 1916; foreign secretary 1919–24; Lord President of the Council 1924–5; earl 1911, marquess 1921.
Eden, Anthony (1897–1940), King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1915–9 (awarded Military Cross 1917); MP 1923–57; Lord Privy Seal 1934–5; minister for League of Nations affairs June–December 1935; foreign secretary 1935–8, 1940–5, 1951–5; secretary of state for dominion affairs 1939–40; secretary of state for war 1940; prime minister 1955–7; knighted 1954, earl of Avon 1961.
Edmonds, James (1861–1956), lieutenant Royal Engineers 1881, served in South Africa 1901–2, First World War 1914–18; brigadier general, head of the Military Branch, Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence 1919–49; knighted 1928.
Eisenhower, Dwight (1890-1969), joined US Army, graduating from West Point 1915; service in the Philippines 1935-9; general 1943; supreme commander, Allied Forces Europe, 1944-5; governor, American Zone, Occupied Germany May-November 1945; chief of staff, US Army 1945-8; president, Columbia University 1948–50; NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe 1950-2; president of the United States of America 1953-61.
Elgin, 9th Earl of (1849–1917), born Victor Bruce; viceroy of India 1894–9; chairman, Second Boer War commission, 1902–3; colonial secretary 1905–8.
Fisher, John ‘Jackie’ (1841–1920), joined the Royal Navy 1854; rear admiral 1890, vice admiral 1896, admiral 1901; First Sea Lord (modernizing the fleet) 1904–10; Admiral of the Fleet 1905; First Sea Lord 1914–15; knighted 1894, baron 1909.
French, John (1852–1925), joined the Royal Navy 1866, army 1870; major-general, southern Africa (Boer war) 1899–1902; general, inspector-general of the forces 1907–12; chief of the Imperial General Staff 1912–14; field marshal 1913; commander-in-chief, British Expeditionary Force 1914–15; commander-in-chief, Home Forces 1915–18; lord lieutenant, Ireland 1918–21; knighted 1900, viscount 1915, earl of Ypres 1922.
Greenwood, Arthur (1880–1954) teacher and economics lecturer, Huddersfield 1903–14; secretary, Council for the Study of International Relations 1914; MP 1922–31, 1932–54; head, Labour Party research department 1927; minister of health 1929–31; deputy leader of the Labour Party 1935–45; minister without portfolio 1940–2; Lord Privy Seal 1945–7; paymaster-general 1946–7.
Grigg, Percy (1890–1964), principal private secretary to chancellors of the exchequer, HM Treasury 1921–30; chairman, Inland Revenue, 1930–9; permanent under-secretary of state for war 1939–42; MP 1942–5; secretary of state for war 1942–5; knighted 1932.
Haig, Douglas (1861–1928), joined the army 1884; service in Sudan, southern Africa 1898–1902; inspector general of cavalry, India 1903–6; staff duties, London 1906–9; chief of staff, India 1909–11; general, commander Aldershot 1911–14; commander 1st Army, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1914–15; commander-in-chief, BEF 1915–18; commander-in-chief, Home Forces 1918–21; knighted 1909, earl (and gift of £100,000) 1918.
Inskip, Thomas (1876–1947), barrister, KC 1914; MP 1918–29, 1931–9; solicitor general 1922–8, 1931–2; attorney general 1928–9, 1932–6; minister for co-ordination of defence 1936–9, secretary of state for dominion affairs January–September 1939, May–October 1940; lord chancellor 1939–40; lord chief justice 1940–6; knighted 1922, Viscount Caldecote 1939.
Ismay, Hastings (‘Pug’) (1887–1965), joined the Indian army, serving in India, Somaliland 1905–20; assistant secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence 1925–30; military secretary, viceroy of India 1930–2; intelligence officer, War Office 1933–6; deputy secretary, secretary (from 1938) Committee of Imperial Defence 1936–40; chief staff officer to prime minister and minister of defence 1940–5; general 1944; chief of staff, viceroy of India 1947–8; chairman, Festival of Britain 1948–51; secretary of state for Commonwealth relations 1951–2; literary assistant to Churchill 1948–53; secretary-general, NATO 1952–7; knighted 1946, baron 1947.
Kelly, Denis (1916–90), war service 1939–45; barrister 1942; literary assistant to Churchill 1947–57; deputy recorder, Bedford 1968.
Kennedy, John (‘Jack’) (1917-63), joined the US Navy 1940-4 (commanding motor torpedo boats in the South Pacific 1943); member from Massachusetts’s 11th District, US House of Representatives 1947-53; senator from Missouri, US Senate 1953-60; president of the United States 1961-3; assassinated November 1963.
Kitchener, Horatio (1850–1916), joined the army 1871; governor general, eastern Sudan 1868–8; adjutant general, Egyptian army 1888–91, inspector general of police, Egypt 1889–91; commander, Sudan campaign 1896–8; governor general Sudan 1899; chief of staff, southern Africa (Boer war) 1900–2; commander-in-chief, India 1902–9; British agent and consul general, Egypt 1911; secretary of state for war 1914–16; drowned 1916; knighted 1894, baron (and prize of £30,000) 1898; viscount (and prize of £50,000) 1902.
Leathers, Frederick (1883–1965), joined Steamship Owners’ Coal Association (later William Cory & Son) 1898; joint managing director 1917, deputy chairman 1928; minister of war transport 1941 (with special responsibility for shipping); secretary of state for the co-ordination of transport, fuel and power 1951–3; baron 1941,viscount 1954.
Lloyd George, David (1863–1945), solicitor 1884; MP 1890–1945; president of the Board of Trade 1906–8; chancellor of the exchequer 1908–15; minister of munitions 1915–16; secretary of state for war June–December 1916; prime minister 1916–22; leader of the Liberal Party 1926; Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor 1945.
Lytton, 2nd Earl of (1876–1947), born Victor Bulwer-Lytton (in India while his father was viceroy); Admiralty 1916–20; under-secretary of state for India 1920–2; governor of Bengal 1922–7.
MacDonald, Ramsay (1866–1937), a founder of the Labour Party; MP 1906-8, 1922-35, 1936-7; chairman of Labour MPs 1911-4, leader of the Labour Party 1922-31; prime minister 1924, 1929-35; Lord President of the Council 1935-7.
Macmillan, Frederick (1851–1936), New York branch of Macmillan publishers 1871–6, London partner 1876–1936; knighted 1909.
Macmillan, Harold (1894–1986), wounded at the Somme 1916; joined family publishing business, Macmillan & Co. 1919; MP 1924–9, 1931–July 1945, November 1945–64; minister of housing 1951–4; defence minister 1954–5; foreign secretary 1955; chancellor of the exchequer 1955–7; prime minister 1957–63; chairman, Macmillan & Co. 1964–74; earl of Stockton 1984.
Margesson, David (1890–1965), served on the Western Front (awarded Military Cross) 1914–18; MP 1922–3, 1924–42; chief whip 1931–40; secretary of state for war 1940–2; viscount 1942.
Maze, Paul (1887–1979) son of an art collector; artist; interpreter, military draughtsman with British army (meeting Churchill) 1914–8; naturalized British subject 1920; Home Guard 1939–45; official painter, Elizabeth II’s Coronation 1953.
Monckton, Walter (1891–1965), Oxford University contemporary of Edward, prince of Wales, later Edward VIII; Military Cross, 1919; barrister 1919, KC 1930; attorney general to prince of Wales 1932–6, to duchy of Cornwall 1936–46, 1949–51; director general, ministry of information 1939–41; solicitor general 1945; MP 1951–7; minister of labour 1951–5, minister of defence 1955–6, paymaster general 1956–7; knighted 1937, viscount 1957.
Pakenham-Walsh, Ridley (1888–1966) joined the army 1908, serving in the Dardanelles, France 1914–18 (awarded Military Cross); School of Military Engineering 1923–6; major general, engineer-in-chief, British Expeditionary Force 1939–40; lieutenant general 1941; controller general, Army Provision 1943–6.
Rawlinson, Henry (1864–1925), joined the army 1884; Kitchener’s staff, Omdurman 1898; commander Fourth Division, France 1914, Fourth Army 1916; general, commanding Second Army, 1917–18; commander-in-chief, India 1920–5; knighted 1918, baron 1919.
Roosevelt, Franklin (1882-1945), senator, New York State 1911–13; assistant secretary of the navy 1913-20; suffered from polio 1921; governor of New York State 1929-32; president of the United States 1933-45; in his first 100 days in office, introduced measures known as the New Deal to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s; died in his record fourth term of office.
Rothschild, Nathaniel (‘Natty’) (1840–1915), merchant banker; MP 1865–85; partner, N. M. Rothschild & Sons 1879; founder, The Exploration Company 1886; baron 1885.
Salisbury, Marquess of (1830-1903), born Robert Cecil; fellow of The College of All Souls, Oxford 1853; MP 1853-68; journalist Saturday Review, Quarterly Review 1856–68; chairman, Great Eastern Railway Company 1868-72; fellow of the Royal Society 1869; secretary of state for India 1874-8; leader of the Conservative Party 1881-1902; prime minister, foreign secretary 1885-January 1886, July 1886-92, 1895-1902; Viscount Cranborne 1865, marquess 1868.
Sassoon, Philip (1888–1939), cousin of Siegfried Sassoon; related by marriage to the Rothschild family; MP 1912–39; private secretary, Field Marshal Haig 1915–18; under-secretary of state for air 1924–9, 1931–7; first commissioner of works 1937–9; prominent social host and art collector at Port Lympne in Kent, Trent Park in Hertfordshire; succeeded to baronetcy 1912.
Smith, Frederick (F. E.) (1872–1930), barrister, KC 1908; MP 1906–18; solicitor general 1915; attorney general 1915–18; lord chancellor 1919–22; secretary of state for India 1924–28; knighted 1915, baron (as Lord Birkenhead) 1919, viscount 1921, earl 1922; co-founder with Churchill of The Other Club.
Spears (né Spiers), Edward (1886–1974), born in Paris; liaison officer with French army (meeting Churchill, Military Cross 1915) 1914–8; MP 1922–4, 1931–45; Churchill’s representative to French government, May 1940, to Free French 1940–2; British minister, Syria and Lebanon 1942–4; chairman, Institute of Directors 1948–66; knighted 1942, baronet 1953.
Truman, Harry (1884-1972), farmer; served on the Western Front, 1917-18; senator from Missouri, US Senate 1935-45; vice-president January-April 1945; president of the United States April 1945-53.
Westminster, Duke of (1879–1953), born Hugh Grosvenor; landowner; succeeded to dukedom 1899; Royal Horse Guards (Boer war) 1899–1900; Cheshire Yeomanry 1914–18 (developed Rolls-Royce armoured car as a prototype of the tank); partner, Coco Chanel 1925–35.
Wood, Edward (1881–1959), viceroy of India 1926–31; secretary of state for war 1935; Lord Privy Seal 1935–8; foreign secretary 1938–40; ambassador to the United States 1940–6; baron (as Lord Irwin) 1925, Viscount Halifax 1934, earl 1944.