¹ Property of the Harmsworths in Finglas, County Dublin, originally owned by CBH's father-in-law, William Hamilton Maffett.

² Robert Andrew Ramsay Anderson (1860–1942): Secretary of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, a successful co-operative organisation founded by Horace Plunkett in 1894.

³ Thomas A. Finlay (1848–1940): entered the Jesuit order 1866; a professor at University College Dublin 1883–1930; Vice-President of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society and a close collaborator of Plunkett and Anderson.

⁴ Arthur William Ardagh (c.1858–1925): Vicar of Finglas 1891–1919.

⁵ Sir Henry Augustus Robertson (1857–1927): Irish civil servant; Vice-President of the Irish Local Government Board 1898–1920; knighted 1900, cr. baronet 1920.

⁶ John Giltrap (b. c.1867): coachman and domestic servant.

⁷ Presumably Marcella Deane, aunt to CBH's children.

⁸ In December 1911 Pius X issued a decree ‘Quantavis diligentia’ which subjected to excommunication any private individual who summoned a member of the clergy before a tribunal of laymen without first seeking the permission of the ecclesiastical authorities. In other words, he was attempting to discourage people from suing clerics.

⁹ Timothy Michael Healy, (1855–1931): Nationalist MP for Wexford 1880–1883, Monaghan 1883–1885, Londonderry South 1885–1886, North Longford 1886–1892, North Louth 1892–December 1910, North-East Cork 1911–1918; first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, 1922–1928. William O'Brien (1852–1928): journalist and author; founder of the anti-sectarian All-for-Ireland League; Nationalist MP for Mallow 1883–1885; Tyrone South 1886, North-East Cork 1887–1892; and Cork City, 1892–1895 and 1901–1918. By the time of this entry, Healy and O'Brien, who favoured a conciliatory approach to the quest for Home Rule, had broken away from the Irish Parliamentary Party under the leadership of John Redmond and had obtained a small following of MPs.

¹⁰ Henry Francis Doran (1856–1928): Irish civil servant; Inspector of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland 1892–1910; a Statutory Permanent Member of the Board from 1910.

¹¹ Christopher John Nixon (1849–1914): prominent Irish physician and academic, holding a series of senior posts at National University of Ireland; founder of Royal Veterinary College of Ireland.

¹² Edward Willis Duncan Ward (1853–1928): army officer; Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office 1901–1914; knighted 1900; cr. baronet 1914.

¹³ Frederick A. Spencer: later a Captain in the Royal Tank Corps, m. 1925 CBH's niece Sophie Geraldine (‘Chirrie’) King (b.1902).

¹⁴ Mary Elizabeth Harmsworth, née Milner (1867–1963); Baroness Northcliffe, wife of Northcliffe.

¹⁵ William Scott (d. 1922): civil engineer, Grand Falls, Newfoundland.

¹⁶ Dudley Stewart-Smith (1857–1919): Lib. MP Kendal 1906–1910; knighted 1917.

¹⁷ Henry Ramie Beeton (1850/1–1934): pioneer of the electricity supply industry; founder and chairman of the Brompton and Kensington Electricity Supply Company and its predecessors for 45 years.

¹⁸ George John Shaw-Lefevre (1831–1928): Lib. MP Reading 1863–1885, Bradford Central 1886–1895; Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1866; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1868–1871; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department 1871; Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1871–1874, 1880; First Commissioner of Works 1881–1885, 1892–1894; Postmaster General 1884–1885; President of the Local Government Board 1894–1895; co-founder and first chairman of the Commons Preservation Society 1865, and its president 1905; cr. Baron Eversley 1906.

¹⁹ Ralph Neville (1848–1918): Lib. MP Liverpool Exchange 1887–1895; QC 1888; judge in Court of Appeal from 1906.

²⁰ Stanley Davenport Adshead (1868–1946): architect and town planner; Associate Professor, later Professor of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, 1909–1914; Professor of Town Planning, University of London, 1914–1935; first editor of Town Planning Review.

²¹ Margery Greenwood, née Spencer (1887–1968): m. 1911; cr. Dame 1922.

²² Agnes Helen Harben, née Bostock (1879–1961).

²³ Ethel Agnes McCheane (1864–1928): dog enthusiast and shower.

²⁴ Maurice Pascal Akers Hankey (1877–1963): Naval Assistant to Committee of Imperial Defence 1908–1912; secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence 1912–1938; secretary to War Council 1914–1916; secretary to Cabinet 1916–1938; Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1940–1941; Paymaster General 1941–1942; cr. Baron 1939.

²⁵ Probably Oswald Bayly Maffett.

²⁶ Frederick Handel Booth (1867–1947): industrialist; Lib. MP Pontefract 1910–1918; led government inquiry into Marconi Scandal 1912; convicted of fraud in Gruban v. Booth 1917.

²⁷ Probably the W.H. Smith who had previously served as clerk to the Leighton Buzzard Board of Guardians; appears not to be part of the newsagent family.

²⁸ Warwick Herbert Draper (1873–1926): lawyer and town planner; chairman of the Garden City Association; leading figure in the foundation of Letchworth in 1905.

²⁹ Francis Edward Fremantle (1872–1943): physician; Medical Officer of Health for Hertfordshire 1902–1916; Con. MP St Albans 1919–1943.

³⁰ George Montagu Harris (d. 1951): secretary of the County Councils Association; civil servant in the Ministry of Health during the 1920s; latterly honorary president of the International Union of Local Authorities; OBE 1918.

³¹ Thomas Herbert Warren (1853–1930): President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1885–1928; Vice Chancellor of the university, 1906–1910; knighted 1914.

³² George Lionel Pepler (1882–1959): a key figure in the town planning movement and a civil servant with responsibility for planning 1914–1946; a major influence on the Town and Country Planning Act (1947); CB 1944; knighted 1948.

³³ Edwin Oakley (1852–1930): Mayor of Luton 1891, 1984, 1906; his brother, Albert Arthur Oakley (1854–1917) was mayor 1903.

³⁴ Ruth Spencer: sister of Frederick Spencer, m. 1913 the civil servant Henry Gascoyen Maurice (1874–1950).

³⁵ King George V (1865–1936): reigned 1910–1936.

³⁶ Queen Mary (1867–1953): m. George V 1893.

³⁷ Fred Wood: childhood friend of Alfred Harmsworth Senior; maintained a close friendship with Northcliffe; head of the Mercantile Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for which Rothermere worked as a boy; died during the First World War.

³⁸ Beville Stanier (1867–1921): Con. MP Newport 1908–1918, Ludlow 1918–1921; cr. baronet 1917.

³⁹ Harold Trevor Baker (1877–1960): Lib. MP Accrington 1910–1918; Financial Secretary to the War Office 1915–1916.

⁴⁰ J.H. Morgan (ed.), The New Irish Constitution: An Exposition and Some Arguments (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. This book was published under the auspices of the Eighty Club. CBH's chapter was entitled ‘The State of Public Business’.

⁴¹ Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen (1865–1946): Con. MP Tonbridge 1892–1906, Dudley 1910–1921, Taunton 1921–1922; Minister of Agriculture 1921–1922; Minister of Health 1922–1923.

⁴² Auberon Thomas Herbert (1876–1916): succ. as 9th Baron Lucas 1905; Under-Secretary of State for War 1908–1911; Under-Secretary of State for Colonies 1911; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 1911–1914; President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 1914–1915; served in the RFC in Great War; missing in action, presumed killed, 1916.

⁴³ Albert Henry George Grey (1851–1917): Lib. MP Northumberland South 1880–1885, Tyneside 1885–1886; succ. as 4th Earl Grey 1894; Governor-General of Canada 1904–1911.

⁴⁴ Thomas Hudson Middleton (1863–1943): Professor of Agriculture, University of Cambridge, 1902–1906; Assistant Secretary to the Board of Agriculture 1906–1919; member, Development Commission (under the Development and Road Improvement Acts) 1919–1941; first recipient of the Royal Agricultural Society's Gold Medal 1933; FRS 1936; Chair of Agricultural Research Council 1938–1943; knighted 1913.

⁴⁵ Frederick Ernest Allsopp (1857–1928): 9th of the 11 children (6th of the 8 sons) of the 1st Baron Hindlip; army officer.

⁴⁶ Raymond Unwin (1863–1940): engineer, architect and town planner; planning career included Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb; strongly influential in inter-war planning in Britain and the USA.

⁴⁷ Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873–1940): owner of extensive lands in Lincolnshire; agricultural and social reformer; co-founder of Central Landowners Association.

⁴⁸ Charles Henry Lyell (1875–1918): Lib. MP Dorset East 1904–1910, Edinburgh South 1910–1917; died of pneumonia while serving as Assistant Military Attaché to the USA.

⁴⁹ Eva Margaret James (1855–1938): Baroness Ashton.

⁵⁰ Henry Webb (1866–1940): Lib. MP Forest of Dean 1911–1918, Cardiff East 1923–1924; Junior Lord of the Treasury 1912–1915.

⁵¹ Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1876–1947): succ. as 2nd Earl of Lytton 1891; supporter of Garden Cities Movement; Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1916, 1919–1920; Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1917–1919; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India 1920–1922; Governor of Bengal 1922–1927.

⁵² Thomas Sydney Lea (1867–1946): Worcestershire magistrate, supporter of garden cities movement.

⁵³ Reginald McKenna (1863–1943): Lib. MP Monmouthshire North 1895–1918; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1905–1907; President of the Board of Education 1907–1908; First Lord of the Admiralty 1908–1911; Home Secretary 1911–1915; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916; chairman of Midland Bank 1919–1943.

⁵⁴ Herbrand Arthur Russell (1858–1940): succ. 1893 as 11th Duke of Bedford.

⁵⁵ E.J. Cheney (1862–1921): civil servant, at this time Assistant Secretary at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and, in that capacity, Smallholdings Commissioner.

⁵⁶ Admiral Lord Nelson (1758–1805).

⁵⁷ George Lansbury (1859–1940): Lab. MP Bow and Bromley 1910–1912, 1922–1940; resigned seat 1912 to fight (and in the event lose) by-election on issue of women's suffrage; editor, Daily Herald, 1913–1922; First Commissioner of Works 1929–1931; leader of Labour party 1932–1935.

⁵⁸ Percy Holden Illingworth (1869–1915): Lib. MP Shipley 1906–1915; Parliamentary Secretary to Treasury and Liberal Chief Whip 1912–1915.

⁵⁹ Possibly Ellen Lewis (b. c.1850): listed in the 1911 census as ‘Chairwoman’.

⁶⁰ Richard Goodman (b. c.1853): flour miller and cow merchant.

⁶¹ Lt Col. Andrew Carruthers (b. c.1848): Luton magistrate; m. Emily (1855–1932).

⁶² Probably George Field (b. c.1865): manure and seed agent.

⁶³ Arthur Cecil Murray (1879–1962): Lib. MP Kincardineshire 1908–1918, Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire West 1918–1923; PPS to Sir Edward Grey 1910–1914; served in army in Great War; succ. as 3rd Viscount Elibank 1951.

⁶⁴ Andrew Bonar Law (1858–1922): Con. MP Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown 1900–1906, Dulwich 1906–1910, Bootle 1911–1918, Glasgow Central 1918–1923; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1902–1905; leader of Conservative party 1911–1921, 1922–193; Secretary of State for Colonies 1915–1916; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1916–1919; Leader of House of Commons 1916–1921; Lord Privy Seal 1919–1921; Prime Minister 1922–1923.

⁶⁵ Albion Henry Herbert Richardson (1874–1950): Lib. MP Camberwell Peckham 1910–1922 (as Co. Lib. 1916–1922); knighted 1919; KC 1930.

⁶⁶ John McFadyean (1853–1941): Principal of Royal Veterinary College 1892–1927.

⁶⁷ Possibly of Messrs G. Thatcher and Son, Solicitors.

⁶⁸ Joseph Nathaniel Lyons (1847–1930): caterer and founder of J. Lyons and Co. Ltd. 1894, opening a chain of teashops in London; knighted 1911.

⁶⁹ Thomas Robert Dewar (1864–1930): whisky blender; Con. MP Tower Hamlets, St George 1900–1906; cr. baronet 1917, Baron 1919.

⁷⁰ Reynolds, Stephen (1881–1919): author of A Poor Man's Home (London: J. Lane, 1908)Google Scholar and Seems So! A Working-Class View of Politics (London: Macmillan,1911), written in collaboration with Robert and Tom Woolley, with whom he lived in Sidmouth from 1907 until shortly before his death; member of Harmsworth Committee 1912–1913, and of Inshore Fisheries Committee 1914; fisheries adviser to Development Commission; resident fisheries inspector for Board of Agriculture and Fisheries during the Great War.

⁷¹ Selwyn Howe Fremantle (1869–1942), Indian civil servant 1890–1925; knighted 1925.

⁷² Possibly Edward Tindall Atkinson (1878–1957): lawyer; Director of Public Prosecutions 1930–1944; knighted 1932.

⁷³ Henry Ford (c.1868–?1937): of Messrs Ford, Harris and Ford, Exeter.

⁷⁴ Harry Woolley (b. 1873): Sidmouth fisherman; younger brother of Robert.

⁷⁵ Tom Woolley (1878–1953): Sidmouth fisherman; younger brother of Robert and Harry.

⁷⁶ William Hall Peile (1869–1919): qualified in Dublin as a medical doctor.

⁷⁷ Samuel Joseph Godfrey Woolley (1845–1919): Sidmouth fisherman, younger brother of Robert's father; uncle of Robert, Harry and Tom.

⁷⁸ Robert William Woolley (1865–1947): Sidmouth fisherman; older brother of Harry and Tom.

⁷⁹ Hugh Alexander Laws (1872–1943): Irish Nat. MP Donegal West 1902–1918; Cumann na nGaedheal member of Irish Dail 1927–1932.

⁸⁰ Willoughby Hyett Dickinson (1869–1943): Lib. MP St Pancras North 1906–1918; knighted 1918; joined Labour party 1930; cr. Baron Dickinson 1930.

⁸¹ Minnie Elizabeth Gordon Cumming Dickinson, née Meade (1865–1967): m. 1891.

⁸² James Gilliland Simpson (1865–1948): Anglican priest; Canon of Manchester 1910–1912, of St Paul's 1912–1928; Dean of Peterborough 1928–1942.

⁸³ Harley Granville Barker (1877–1946): actor-manager, director, producer, critic and playwright; in 1912 directed A Winter's Tale and Twelfth Night at the Savoy Theatre; Lillah Barker, née McCarthy (1875–1960): actress and theatrical manager; m. 1908, div. 1918.

⁸⁴ Gerald Spencer Pryse (1882–1956): Welsh artist, contributor of lithographs to journals including Punch; member of Fabian Society.

⁸⁵ Maurice Bonham Carter (1880–1960): principal private secretary to the Prime Minister 1910–1916; knighted 1916.

⁸⁶ Helen Violet Asquith (1887–1969): daughter of H.H. and Helen Asquith; m. Maurice Bonham Carter 1915; president of Women's Liberal Federation 1923–1925, 1939–1945; president of Liberal party 1945–1947; cr. Baroness 1964.

⁸⁷ Hans Richter (1843–1916): Austro-Hungarian conductor; director of Halle Orchestra 1899–1911, London Symphony Orchestra 1904–1911.

⁸⁸ John O'Connor (1850–1928): called ‘Long’ on account of his great height; an active Fenian in his youth, he later became a strong supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell; Nationalist MP for Tipperary 1885; South Tipperary 1885–1992; North Kildare 1905–1918; called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) 1893; KC 1919; no relation of T.P. O'Connor.

⁸⁹ William Morris (1834–1996): artist, designer, writer and socialist.

⁹⁰ Mackail, J.W., The Life of William Morris, 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1899)Google Scholar.

⁹¹ Frederick Rowntree (1860–1927): architect influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement; Quaker background; related to the confectionary family.

⁹² Harry Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951): printer, writer, poet; Quaker background.

⁹³ Unidentified.

⁹⁴ James Henry Mussen Campbell (1851–1931): Irish Unionist MP Dublin St Stephen's Green 1898–1900, Dublin University 1903–1917; Solicitor General for Ireland 1903–1905; Attorney General for Ireland 1905, 1916–1917; Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1917–1918; Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1918–1921; cr. Baron Glenavy 1921; member and chair of Irish Free State Senate 1922–1928.

⁹⁵ Gerald Ashburner France (1870–1935): Lib. MP Morley 1910–1918, Batley and Morley 1918–1922; businessman and leading lay Wesleyan.

⁹⁶ William Glynne Charles Gladstone (1885–1915): grandson of W.E. Gladstone (1809–1898) and son of William Henry Gladstone (1840–1891); Lib. MP Kilmarnock Burghs 1911–1915; killed in action 1915.

⁹⁷ Elizabeth Ellen Lever, née Hulme (c.1851–1913): m. William Hesketh Lever, industrialist, 1874; he was knighted 1911 hence her title.