¹ George Elliott (d.1916); successful criminal and licensing lawyer; called to the Bar 1882; Unionist candidate for South Bedfordshire 1900 and Jan. 1910.

² William Robert Davidge (1879–1961): architect and surveyor, with an early interest in the garden cities movement; travelled to Australia and New Zealand with Reade in 1913–1914 to popularise town planning; President of the Royal Town Planning Institute 1926–1927.

³ Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington (1843–1928): Lib. MP Wycombe 1865–1868; succ. as 3rd Baron Carrington 1868; cr. Earl Carrington 1895, Marquess of Lincolnshire 1912; President of the Board of Agriculture 1905–1911; Lord Privy Seal 1911–1912.

⁴ Edward Arthur Colebrook (1861–1939): Lib. peer; succ. as baronet 1890; cr. Baron 1906; Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in House of Lords) 1906–1911; Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1911–1922.

⁵ Hubert Gough de la Poer Gough (1870–1963): army officer of Anglo-Irish aristocratic background; Brigadier-General commanding Third cavalry brigade at the time of the Curragh incident; commanded British Fifth Army 1916–1918.

⁶ Henry Neville Gladstone (1852–1935): 3rd son of W.E. Gladstone; businessman and financier; cr. Baron 1932.

⁷ Probably William Augustus White (1843–1927): an American book collector acquainted with the Harmsworth family.

⁸ Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914): Lib. MP Birmingham 1876–1885, Lib. then Lib. Unionist MP Birmingham West 1885–1914; former cabinet minister and leading tariff reformer, had died on 2 July 1914.

⁹ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1932–1914): Field Marshal.

¹⁰ Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936): celebrated writer and poet.

¹¹ John Dillon (1851–1927): Irish Nat. MP Tipperary 1880–1883, Mayo East 1885–1918.

¹² James Craig (1871–1940): Unionist MP Down East 1906–1918, Mid-Down 1918–1921; leader of Ulster Unionist party and prime minister of Northern Ireland 1921–1940; cr. baronet 1918, Viscount Craigavon 1927.

¹³ John Morley (1838–1923): Lib. MP Newcastle upon Tyne 1883–1895, Montrose Burghs 1896–1908; cr. Viscount Morley 1908; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1886, 1892–1895; Secretary of State for India 1905–1910, 1911; Lord President of the Council 1910–1914.

¹⁴ Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916): Field Marshal; cr. Baron 1898, Viscount 1902, Earl 1914; Secretary of State for War 1914–1916.

¹⁵ Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (1872–1951): Lib. MP York 1910–1918; Quaker; opposed to the war.

¹⁶ Elihu Richard Cross (1864–1916): Scarborough solicitor; friend and political associate of Arnold Rowntree.

¹⁷ Walter Hume Long (1854–1924): Con. MP Wiltshire North 1880–1885, Devizes 1885–1892, Liverpool West Derby 1893–1900, Bristol South 1900–1906, Dublin County South 1906–1910, Strand 1910–1918, Westminster St George's 1918–1921; Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1886–1892; President of the Board of Agriculture 1895–1900; President of the Local Government Board 1900–1905; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1905; President of the Local Government Board 1915–1916; Secretary of State for Colonies 1916–1919; First Lord of the Admiralty 1919–1921; cr. Viscount 1921.

¹⁸ Charles Bathurst (1867–1958): Con. MP Wilton 1910–1918; cr. Baron Bledisloe 1918, Viscount 1935; Governor-General of New Zealand 1930–1935.

¹⁹ Arthur Henderson (1863–1935): succeeded MacDonald as chairman of the parliamentary Labour party on 4 August 1914; Lab. MP Barnard Castle 1903–1918, Widnes 1919–1922, Newcastle East 1923, Burnley 1924–1931, Clay Cross 1933–1935; Labour party secretary 1912–1934; chairman of parliamentary Labour party 1908–1910, 1914–1917; leader of Labour party 1931–1932; President of the Board of Education 1915–1916; Paymaster-General 1916; Minister without Portfolio in War Cabinet 1916–1917; Home Secretary 1924; Foreign Secretary 1929–1931; president of World Disarmament Conference 1932–1934.

²⁰ German shipping companies.

²¹ Harry Calvert Williams Verney (1881–1974): Lib. MP Buckingham 1910–1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 1914–1915; succ. as 4th baronet 1910.

²² Herbert Louis Samuel (1870–1963): Lib. MP Cleveland 1902–1918, Darwen 1929–1935; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department 1905–1909; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1909–1910, 1915–1916; Postmaster General 1910–1914, 1915–1916; President of the Local Government Board 1914–1915; Home Secretary 1916, 1931–1932; High Commissioner for Palestine 1920–1925; cr. Viscount Samuel 1937.

²³ Ernest Burton Betham (1864–1938): involved in the Garden City movement and published on topics related to housing; one of the architects of the Tatchbrook Estate, Westminster, which opened in 1935.

²⁴ Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes (1858–1945): Lib. peer; succ. as 2nd Baron Houghton 1885; succ. as 4th Baron Crewe 1894; cr. Earl of Crewe 1895, Marquess 1911; Lord Lieutenant or Ireland 1892–1895; Lord President of the Council 1905–1908; Leader of House of Lords 1908–1916; Secretary of State for Colonies 1908–1910; Secretary of State for India 1910–1915; Lord Privy Seal 1910–1911, 1912–1915; Lord President of the Council 1915–1916; President of the Board of Education 1916; Secretary of State for War 1931; leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords 1908–1923, 1936–1944.

²⁵ Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940): younger son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Austen; businessman and industrialist; Birmingham City Councillor from 1911, and Lord Mayor 1915–1916; Director-General of National Service 1916–1917; Unionist MP Birmingham Ladywood 1918–1929, Birmingham Edgbaston 1929–1940; Minister of Health 1922–1923, 1924–1929; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1923–1924, 1931–1937; leader of Conservative party and Prime Minister 1937–1940.

²⁶ Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937): elder son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville; Unionist MP Worcestershire East 1892–1914, Birmingham West 1914–1937; Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1895–1900; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1900–1902; Postmaster General 1902–1903; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1903–1995, 1919–1921; Secretary of State for India 1915–1917; Lord Privy Seal 1921–1922; leader of the Conservative party 1921–1922; Foreign Secretary 1924–1929; First Lord of the Admiralty 1931; knighted 1925.

²⁷ Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960): daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst; suffragette; broke with the Women's Social and political Union in 1914 to form the East London Federation of Suffragettes, which later became in turn the Women's Suffrage Federation, the Workers’ Socialist Federation and finally, in 1920, the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International); the last joined the Communist party of Great Britain in 1921 but Pankhurst was expelled soon afterwards.

²⁸ Henry Allan Roughton May (1864–1930); commanded the 28th Battalion of the London Regiment (Artists Rifles) from 1912–1915, 1919–1920; in the interval he was Commandant of the Officers’ School of Instruction at Tidworth.

²⁹ Although Hickman had been re-adopted as the prospective Con. candidate for Luton, he did not fight the seat in 1918.

³⁰ No further information on her is available beyond that provided in this entry.

³¹ William Tankerville Moneypenny Reeve (c.1866–1915): Lt Col., Commander of the Leinster Regiment's Second Battalion.

³² George Herbert Pollard (1864–1937): Lib. MP Eccles 1906–1918.

³³ George Hay Morgan (1866–1931): called to the Bar 1899; KC 1913; Lib. MP Truro-Helston 1906–1918; Co. Lib. candidate in the Abertillery by-election 1920.

³⁴ Esmond Cecil Harmsworth (1898–1978): third son of Harold Harmsworth and succeeded as his heir after both his brothers Vyvyan and Vere were killed; served in the army during the First World War; ADC to Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference 1919; Con. MP Isle of Thanet 1919–1929; Chairman of Associated newspapers 1932–1971; succ. as 2nd Viscount Rothermere, 1940.