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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2016
Round the town in the morning and a walk with Daff and Bud in Mr. Mackenzie's deer park after lunch. Arrived home I find a telegram from Em saying that Harold considers it imperative I should be ‘on hand’ in London while Ll.G. is reconstructing his Ministry. Much to the disgust of the happy little Henley party I resolve to catch the 6.40. Gol says: ‘Why didn't you let Willet Ball win?’
1 Herbert Stern (1851–1919): merchant banker; cr. Baron Michelham 1905; knighted 1912.
2 William George Tyrell (1866–1947): civil servant; attached to the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference with the rank of Minister-Plenipotentiary; Ambassador to France 1928–1934; knighted 1913; cr. Baron Tyrrell 1929.
3 James Eric Drummond (1876–1951): civil servant; Secretary-General of the League of Nations 1919–1933; Ambassador to Italy 1933–1939; succ. as 7th Earl of Perth 1937.
4 Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy (1887–1958): civil servant, politician and educationalist; Con. candidate Kingston upon Hull 1919; MP for Hastings 1921–1937; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education 1923; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Health 1923–1924; President of the Board of Education 1924–1929; Minister without Portfolio 1935–1936; Rector of King's College, Newcastle 1937–1952; cr. Baron Percy of Newcastle 1953.
5 Étienne Clémentel (1864–1936): French Minister of Commerce 1915–1919.
6 Jacques Seydoux (1870–1929): diplomat.
7 Vance Criswell McCormick (1872–1946): chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1916–1819; chairman of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.
8 Silvio Benigno Crespi (1868–1944): Italian industrialist and politician; Minister of Food 1918–1919.
9 Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870–1965): financier and presidential adviser.
10 Bernardo Attolico (1880–1942): diplomat.
11 Hubert Llewellyn Smith (1864–1945): civil servant; Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade (1907–1919); Chief Economic Adviser to the Government 1919–1927; knighted 1908.
12 Maynard Keynes, John(1883–1946): economist; resigned from the Treasury and published his highly criticalThe Economic Consequences of the Peace (London: Macmillan, 1919)Google Scholar; cr. Baron Keynes 1942.
13 George Price Webley Hope (1869–1959): naval officer; Deputy First Sea Lord 1918; knighted 1919.
14 Charles T. Hardy: naval officer; Assistant Director of the Admiralty Trade Division during the First World War.
15 William Sutherland (1880–1949): civil servant and politician; private secretary to Lloyd George 1915–1919; Coalition (then National) Lib. MP for Argyllshire 1918–1924; Lord of the Treasury 1920–1922; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1922; knighted 1919.
16 1894–1972; reigned as Edward VIII from January to December 1936; abdicated and was created Duke of Windsor.
17 John William Alcock (1892–1919): aviator; knighted 1919; killed in an air crash.
18 Arthur Whitten Brown (1886–1948): aviator and engineer; knighted 1919.
19 Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary (1897–1965): the third child and only daughter of George V and Queen Mary; cr. Princess Royal 1932.
20 John Joseph Pershing (1860–1948): US Army officer; led the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War.
21 David Beatty (1871–1936): naval officer; Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet 1916–19; First Sea Lord 1919–27; knighted 1914; cr. Earl Beatty 1919.
22 Unidentified.
23 Thomas Keens (1870–1953): accountant; Luton Alderman; Lib. MP for Aylesbury 1923–1924.
24 Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, (1871–1940): Con. MP for Chorley 1895–1913; President of the Board of Agriculture 1916; Lord Privy Seal 1916–1919; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1919–1921; First Commissioner of Works in 1921–1922 (and additionally Minister of Transport in 1922); succ. as 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres 1913.
25 Charles Albert McCurdy (1870–1941): Lib. (then Coalition/Nat Lib) MP for Northampton 1906–1923; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control 1919–1920; Minister of Food Control 1920–1921; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip): 1921–1922.
26 John Anthony Cecil Tilley (1869–1952): civil servant; ambassador to Japan 1926–1931; knighted 1919.
27 William Athelstane Meredith Goode (1877–1944): journalist and civil servant; British Director of Relief in Europe 1919–1920; knighted 1918.
28 Henri Jaspar (1870–1939): Belgian lawyer and politician; Minister of Economic Affairs 1918–1920; Prime Minister 1926–1931.
29 Louis Loucheur (1872–1931): French industrialist and politician; Minister of Industrial Reconstruction 1918–1920.
30 Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (1885–1933): a key figure in the wartime Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule; reigned as Feisal I of Iraq from 1921.
31 Gabriel Haddad Pasha (d. 1923): a Syrian who served in the British administration in Cairo and Jerusalem during the First World War and who later became Faisal's representative in London.
32 Henry Wickham Steed (1871–1956): editor of The Times 1919–1922.
33 Possibly Robert George Howe (d. 1981 at age 87): diplomat; Governor-General of the Sudan 1947–1955; knighted 1947.
34 Ernest Murray Pollock (1861–1936): called to the Bar 1885; KC 1905; Con. candidate for Spalding 1900 and 1906; MP for Warwick and Leamington 1910–1923; Solicitor General 1919–1922; Attorney General 1922; Master of the Rolls 1923–1935; knighted 1917; cr. baronet 1922; cr. Baron Hanbury 1926.
35 Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe (1864–1925): civil servant; Permanent Secretary to the Foreign Office 1920–1925; knighted 1911.
36 Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti (1868–1953): Prime Minister of Italy 1919–1920.
37 Maggiorino Ferraris (1856–1929): Italian journalist and politician.
38 Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863–1938): Italian writer and military adventurer; in 1919–1920 he headed a short-lived independent state in the Italian-majority city of Fiume (today known as Rijeka, in Croatia).
39 Dante Ferraris (1868–1931), industrialist and politician.
40 George Halsey Perley (1857–1938): Canadian politician; High Commissioner in London 1917–1822; knighted 1915.
41 Frank Lyon Polk (1871–1943): lawyer and State Department official.
42 Aleksandar Stamboliyski (1879–1923): Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1919–1923, then ousted in a coup and killed.
43 Harry Osborne Mance (1875–1966): soldier and transport expert; transportation adviser to the British delegation at the Paris peace conference 1919; knighted 1929.
44 Nancy Witcher Astor, née Langhorne (1879–1964): m. Robert Gould Shaw (1871–1930), 1897 and divorced 1901; m. Waldorf Astor 1906. When he succeeded to his father's viscountcy in 1919; she succeeded him as Con. MP for Plymouth Sutton in 1919 and served until 1945.
45 Frederick Alexander Macquisten (1870–1940): solicitor; called to the Bar 1919; Scottish KC 1919; English KC 1932; Unionist candidate for Leith Burghs Dec. 1910, Leith Burghs 1912; MP Glasgow Springburn 1918–1922, Argyllshire 1924–1940.
46 Granville Charles Hastings Wheler (1872–1927): called to the Bar 1898; Unionist candidate Osgoldcross 1906, Colne Valley 1907; MP for Faversham 1910–1927; cr. baronet 1925.
47 Lewis Haslam (1856–1922): businessman and politician; Lib. MP Monmouth 1906–1918; Co. Lib. MP Newport (Monmouth) 1918–1922.
48 Auckland Campbell Geddes (1879–1954): businessman and politician; Unionist MP for Basingstoke 1917–1920; Minister of National Service 1917–1918; President of the Local Government Board 1918–1919; President of the Board of Trade 1919–1920; Ambassador to the USA 1920–1923; knighted 1917; cr. Baron Geddes 1942.
49 James O'Grady (1866–1934): trades unionist and politician; Lab. MP Leeds East 1906–1918, Leeds South-East 1918–1924; Governor of Tasmania 1924–1930; Governor of the Falkland Islands 1931–1933; knighted 1924.