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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2016
In the early afternoon I take E. to see Dr. Johnson's house – not very willingly because I have not wished her to form the worst impression of my intended purchase. Mr. Burr, agent for the Calthorpe estates, goes with us. Happily some attempt has been made by the care-taker to clean up the windows and sweep the house down a bit and it looks a little less dreary than when I saw it some weeks since.
1 See the introduction to this volume.
2 Alfred Burr (1855–1952): architect; took charge of the restoration of Dr Johnson's house.
3 Robert Arundell Hudson (1864–1927): secretary of Liberal Central Association and National Liberal Federation 1893–1927; married Northcliffe's widow, Mary Elizabeth Harmsworth, 1923.
4 Courtenay Ilbert (1841–1924): Clerk of House of Commons, 1902–1921.
5 Henry David Erskine (1838–1921): Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons 1885–1915.
6 Vaughan Robinson Nash (1861–1932): journalist; an assistant private secretary to Prime Ministers Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith 1905–1908; principal private secretary to Asquith 1908–1912; commissioner then vice-chairman of the Development Commission 1912–1915, 1919–1929; worked on reconstruction 1915–1919.
7 Emma Alice Margaret ‘Margot’ Asquith, née Tennant (1864–1945): m. 1894 (Asquith's second wife).
8 The nickname of Henry Telford Maffett (1872–1914): twelfth of the Maffett children; a captain in the Leinster regiment; killed in action.
9 Ernest Gladstone Culpin (1877–1946): architect; secretary, Garden Cities Association.
10 Frederick William Maude (1857–1923): Baron of the Cinque Ports and sometime Mayor of New Romsey.
11 Richard Burdon Haldane (1856–1928): Lib. MP Haddingtonshire 1885–1911; Secretary of State for War 1905–1912; Lord Chancellor 1912–1915, 1924; leader of Labour party in House of Lords 1924–1928; cr. Viscount 1912.
12 Freeman Freeman-Thomas (1866–1941): Lib. MP Hastings 1900–1906, Bodmin 1906–1910; Governor of Bombay 1913–1918, Madras 1919–1924; Governor-General of Canada 1926–1930; Viceroy of India 1931–1936; cr. Baron Willingdon 1910, Viscount 1924, Earl 1931.
13 Neil James Archibald Primrose (1882–1917): son of Lord Rosebery (Lib. Prime Minister 1894–1895); Lib. MP Wisbech 1910–1917 (Co. Lib. 1916–1917); Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1915; Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) 1916–1917; died of wounds received in action 1917.
14 Charles Day Rose (1847–1913): Lib. MP Cambridgeshire East 1903–1913; cr. baronet 1909.
15 Robert William Perks (1849–1934): Lib. MP Louth 1892–1910; businessman; leading lay Wesleyan Methodist, and co-founder and chairman of the Nonconformist Parliamentary Council, 1898–1908.
16 Clifford John Cory (1859–1941): Lib. MP St Ives 1906–1922 (Co. Lib. 1916–1922), 1923–1924; Welsh colliery owner; cr. baronet 1907.
17 John Fletcher Moulton (1844–1921): Lib. MP Clapham 1885–1886, Hackney South 1894–1895, Launceston 1898–1906; Lord Justice on the Court of Appeal 1906–1912; organised Explosives Supply Department under War Office in Great War; cr. Baron 1912.
18 Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (1857–1916): physiologist and surgeon; Vice-President, National Temperance League, and President, British Medical Temperance Association; unsuccessful Lib. candidate 1910 and prospective candidate 1911–1914.
19 Howard, Ebenezer (1850–1928): author, Garden Cities of To-morrow (London: Swan Sonnnenschein, 1902)Google Scholar [1st edn as: To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (London: Swan Sonnnenschein, 1898)]; founder, Garden Cities Association 1899.
20 Kathleen Scott, née Bruce (1878–1947): sculptor; m. R.F. Scott 1908; m. secondly the politician Edward Hilton Young 1922; became Baroness Kennet 1935.
21 Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912): Royal Navy officer and polar explorer.
22 Arthur Pole Nicholson (1869–1940): journalist and author; parliamentary correspondent of The Times 1908–1913.
23 Selina Guy (b. c.1871).
24 Grace Lister (b. c.1885).
25 Daisy Reading (c.1886–1926).
26 Kate Sumner (b. c.1892).
27 Edward Henry Carson (1853–1935): Unionist MP University of Dublin 1892–1918, Belfast Duncairn 1918–1921; Solicitor General for Ireland 1892; Solicitor General for England and Wales 1900–1905; Attorney General for England and Wales 1915; First Lord of the Admiralty 1916–1917; Minister without Portfolio 1917–1919.
28 Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1864–1958): Con. MP Marylebone East 1906–1910, Hitchin 1911–1923; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1916–1919; Minister of Blockade 1916–1918; Lord Privy Seal 1923–1924; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1924–1927; cr. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1923; awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1937.
29 Harold Cox (1859–1936): Lib. MP Preston 1906–1910; economist and ardent free trader; editor, Edinburgh Review 1912–1929; author of works such as Economic Liberty (London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1920).
30 Joseph Malaby Dent (1849–1926): publisher, known for the highly successful Everyman's Library Series.
31 Gerald William Balfour (1853–1945): Con. MP Leeds Central 1885–1906; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1895–1900; President of the Board of Trade 1900–1905; President of the Local Government Board 1905; younger brother of A.J. Balfour, whom he succeeded as 2nd Earl of Balfour in 1930.
32 Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913): Con. MP Warwick and Leamington 1895–1906; St George Hanover Square 1906–1913; Secretary of State for Colonies 1903–1905.
33 Michael Bolton Furse (1870–1955): Bishop of Pretoria 1909–1920; Bishop of St Albans 1920–1944.
34 Gervase Henry Elwes (1866–1921) distinguished English tenor, one of the most popular singers of the day; gave the first performance Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge in 1909; m. 1889 Winefride Mary Elizabeth Fielding (1868/9–1959): daughter of the Earl of Denbigh.
35 Sir Joseph Leese (1845–1914): Lib. MP Accrington 1892–1910, cr. baronet 1908; m. 1867 Mary Constance Hageans (d. 1928).
36 Henry Arthur Colefax (1866–1936): Con. MP Manchester South-West 1910; lawyer; knighted 1920; m. 1901 Sybil Halsey (1874–1950): later, as Sybil Colefax, became a noted interior designer.
37 James Louis Garvin (1868–1947): journalist and author; editor, The Observer 1908–1942.
38 Katherine Furse, née Symonds (1875–1952): widow of the painter Charles Wellington Furse (1868–1904), m. 1900; founded the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the Great War; Director of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, 1928–1938.
39 Possibly Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant (1869–1945): who briefly served as commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) in 1918 before her controversial dismissal. Harmsworth undertook an official post-war inquiry into the episode. However, Douglas-Pennant was unmarried, and so may not be the ‘Mrs. Pennant’ mentioned here.
40 Thomas Henry Marlowe (1868–1935): editor, Daily Mail, 1899–1926.
41 John St Loe Strachey (1860–1927): editor, The Spectator, 1887–1925; m. 1887 Henrietta Mary Amy Simpson (1866–1957).
42 Philip Alexius de Laszlo (1869–1937): Hungarian-born portrait artist, domiciled in London from 1907.
43 Richard Talbot Snowden-Smith (1887–1951): lieutenant, aviator; became first officer on the Active List to be awarded a pilot's licence, 15 November 1911.
44 Henry J Delaval Astley (1888–1912): aviator; died flying a Bleriot in an exhibition flight at Belfast.
45 Vivian Hewitt (1888–1965): aviator; first person to fly from Holyhead to Dublin, April 1912.
46 Emile Mond (1865–1938): scientist; member of board of Brunner-Mond, chemical company.
47 Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes (1874–1948): soldier and Liberal politician; Lord-in-Waiting 1905–1907; Master of the Horse 1907–1915, 1923–1926; succ. as 8th Earl Granard 1889.
48 Jesse Herbert (1851–1916): political secretary to the Liberal Chief Whip from 1890s; knighted 1911.
49 Edward George Hemmerde (1871–1948): Lib. MP East Denbighshire 1906–1910, North-West Norfolk 1912–1918; Lab. MP Crewe 1922–1924.
50 Thomas Gair Ashton (1855–1933): Lib. MP Hyde 1885–1886, Luton 1895–1911; industrialist; chairman of Cotton Exports Committee in Great War; cr. Baron 1911.
51 Dora Harriett Maffett, née Fenwick (1868–1944): m. 1893 Charles Hamilton Maffett (b. 1866); their son Cuthbert William Maffett (1894–1982). Dora and Cuthbert were visiting from Ireland, and had unveiled a Classical Water Carrier in memorial to her father, Robert Fenwick, at Wandle Park, Croydon, on 14 June 1911.
52 Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales (1894–1972); reigned briefly as King Edward VIII (1936).
53 Charles Cotchin (c.1856–1923): at different times held various positions in the South Bedfordshire Liberal Association.
54 The Diamond Foundry, Luton, owned by the David Gas Stove Co. Ltd.
55 Harry Inwards (c.1863–1943): Luton manufacturer and active Liberal; author of Straw Hats: Their History and Manufacture (London: Pitman, 1922).
56 Frederick George Kellaway (1870–1933): Lib. MP Bedford 1910–1922 (Co. Lib. from 1916); Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Munitions 1916–1920; Secretary for Overseas Trade 1920–1921; Postmaster General 1921–1922; later Managing Director of Marconi.
57 Milner Gray (1871–1943): chairman of Frank Harden Ltd of Luton (ladies’ hat makers) and a director of the United Match Industries; subsequently Lib. MP Mid-Bedfordshire 1929–1931; chairman of National Liberal Federation 1934–1936; Chairman of Liberal party 1937–1939.
58 George Warren (b. c.1849): Straw hat and plait merchant; Mayor of Luton 1897–1899.
59 Thomas William Dobson (1853–1935): Lib. MP Plymouth 1906–1910.
60 Leo George Chiozza Money (1870–1944): Lib. MP Paddington North 1906–1910, Northamptonshire East 1910–1918; economist and author.
61 Probably Joseph Cox: local photographer.
62 Frederick Thurston (c.1855–1933): photographer and art dealer.
63 Charles Silvester Horne (1865–1914): Lib. MP Ipswich 1910–1914; Congregationalist Minister, and first serving minister of religion to sit as an MP since Praisegod Barebones.
64 John Owen Hickman (1870–1949): barrister; brother of the Conservative MP Thomas Edgecumbe Hickman (1859–1930).
65 Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870–1937): 4th son of Alfred and Geraldine Harmsworth, younger brother of CBH; Lib. MP Caithness 1900–1918, Caithness and Sutherland 1918–1922.
66 Edward Grey (1862–1933): Lib. MP Berwick-upon-Tweed 1885–1916; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1892–1895; Foreign Secretary 1905–1916; leader of Liberals in House of Lords 1923–1924; succ. as baronet 1882; cr. Viscount 1916.
67 William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861–1929): Irish Nat. MP Wexford Borough 1883–1885, Fermanagh North 1885–1892, Clare East 1892–1917; younger brother of John Redmond.
68 Thomas Power O'Connor (1848–1929): Irish Nat. MP Galway Borough 1880–1885, Liverpool Scotland 1885–1929; Father of the House at the time of his death.
69 Hubert Pike Pease (1867–1949): Lib. Unionist (later Unionist) MP Darlington 1898–1910 and 1910–1923; Assistant Postmaster General 1915–1922; cr. Baron Daryngton 1923.
70 James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937): Lab. MP Leicester 1906–1918, Aberavon 1922–1929, Seaham 1929–1931; Nat. Lab. Seaham 1931–1935, Combined Scottish Universities 1936–1937; Labour party secretary 1900–1912, chairman of parliamentary Labour party 1911–1914; leader of Labour party 1922–1931; Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary 1924; Prime Minister 1929–1935; Lord President of the Council 1935–1937.
71 Charles William Bowerman (1851–1947): London Society of Compositors general secretary 1892–1906, Parliamentary Secretary 1906–1911; Lab. MP Deptford 1906–1931; Secretary of Trades Union Congress 1911–1923.
72 Sidney Charles Buxton (1853–1934): Lib. MP Peterborough 1883–1885, Poplar 1886–1914; Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1892–1895; Postmaster General 1905–1910; President of the Board of Trade 1910–1914; Governor-General of South Africa 1914–1920; cr. Viscount 1914, Earl 1920.
73 Arthur Hamilton Lee (1868–1947): Unionist MP Fareham 1900–1918; Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1903–1905; Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1919–1921; First Lord of the Admiralty 1921–1922; donated Chequers for use of British prime ministers 1917; cr. Baron 1918, Viscount 1922.
74 Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947): Unionist/Con. MP Bewdley 1908–1937; joint Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1917–1921; President of the Board of Trade 1921–1922; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1922–1923; leader of Conservative party 1923–1937; Prime Minister 1923–1924, 1924–1929, 1935–1937; Lord President of the Council 1931–1935; Lord Privy Seal 1932–1934.
75 Jeremiah McVeagh (1870–1932): Irish Nat. MP Down South 1902–1922.
76 John Pius Boland (1870–1958): Irish Nat. MP Kerry South 1900–1918.
77 William Pollard Byles (1839–1917): Lib. MP Shipley 1892–1895, Salford North 1906–1917; owner of the Yorkshire Observer; knighted 1911.
78 William Clough (1862–1937): Lib. MP Skipton 1906–1918.
79 Stephen Collins (d. 1925 at age 77): Lib. MP for Lambeth Kennington 1906–1918; knighted 1913.
80 James Henry Dalziel (1868–1935): Lib. MP Kirkcaldy Burghs 1892–1921 (Co Lib. from 1916); editor, Reynolds's News 1907–1920, and owner 1914–1922; attributed with bringing Northcliffe and Lloyd George together in 1909; organised Lloyd George's purchase of Daily Chronicle in 1918, and thereafter its chairman and political director; cr. baronet 1918; Baron 1921.
81 Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1864–1943): Lib. MP Banbury 1906–1910, 1910–1918; PPS to Churchill as First Lord 1912–1914; Governor of Seychelles 1918–1921, of Leeward Islands 1921–1929; cr. baronet 1916.
82 Granville George Greenwood (1850–1928): Lib. MP Peterborough 1906–1918; knighted 1916.
83 Rufus Daniel Isaacs (1860–1935): Lib. MP Reading 1906–1913; Solicitor General 1910; Attorney General 1910–1913; Lord Chief Justice 1913–1921; British Ambassador to USA 1918–1919; Viceroy of India 1921–1925; Foreign Secretary 1931; leader of Liberals in House of Lords 1931–1935; knighted 1910; cr. Baron Reading 1914, Viscount 1916, Earl 1917, Marquess 1926.
84 John Allsebrook Simon (1873–1954): Lib. MP Walthamstow 1906–1918, Spen Valley 1922–1940 (as Lib. Nat from 1931); Solicitor General 1910–1913; Attorney General 1913–1915; Home Secretary 1915–1916, 1935–1937; leader of Liberal National party 1931–1940; Foreign Secretary 1931–1935; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1937–1940; Lord Chancellor 1940–1945; knighted 1910; cr. Viscount 1940.
85 Henry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson (1862–1933): Lib. Unionist MP St Pancras West 1885–1892, Cirencester 1893–1895; Tower Hamlets Mile End 1905–1906, 1910–1916; succ. as Baron Burnham, and inherited the Daily Telegraph, on death of father 1916; cr. Viscount 1919; sold Telegraph to Berry brothers 1927; served as chairman of numerous important public bodies.
86 Percy Alport Moltino (1861–1937): Lib. MP Dumfriesshire 1906–1918; shipping magnate and philanthropist born in Cape Colony.
87 Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby (1871–1946): Lib. MP Stirling Burghs 1908–1918; Lab. MP Sheffield Brightside 1922–1930; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1924; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport 1929–1931; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1931; leader of Labour party in House of Lords 1931–1935; cr. Baron 1930.
88 Arthur Sherwell (1863–1942): Lib. MP Huddersfield 1906–1918.
89 Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil (1869–1956): Unionist/Con. MP Greenwich 1895–1906, Oxford University 1910–1937; author of Conservatism (London: Williams and Norgate, 1912); cr. Baron Quickswood 1941.
90 John Hugh Edwards (1868–1945): Lib. MP Mid-Glamorgan 1910–1918, Neath 1918–1922, Accrington 1923–1929.
91 Thomas Wallace Russell (1841–1920): Lib. Unionist MP Tyrone South 1886–1906; Independent Unionist 1906–1910; defeated as Lib. 1910; Lib. MP Tyrone North 1911–1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1895–1900; Vice-President of the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction 1907–1918; cr. baronet 1917.
92 Michael Francis Cox (1852–1926): distinguished Irish physician; friend and doctor to John Redmond and John Dillon; sworn of Irish Privy Council 1911.
93 Nugent Talbot Everard (1849–1929): Lord Lieutenant of Meath 1906–1922; cr. baronet 1911; elected to Irish Senate 1922.
94 Mary Galway (c.1864–1928): organiser of the Irish Textile Operatives’ Society.
95 A major shipbuilding firm based in Belfast.
96 Joseph Devlin (1871–1934): journalist; Irish Nat. MP Kilkenny North 1902–1906, Belfast West 1906–1918, Belfast Falls 1918–1922, Fermanagh and Tyrone 1929–1934; leader of the Irish Nat. MPs at Westminster 1919–1921; leader of Nationalist party in Northern Ireland parliament 1922–1934.
97 John Hartman Morgan, KC (1876–1955): Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London; Lib. candidate for Birmingham Edgbaston Jan. 1910 and Edinburgh West Dec. 1910; entered the army 1914 and retired with the rank of Brigadier-General 1923; legal adviser to the American war crimes commission at Nuremberg 1947–1949.
98 Michael Logue (1840–1924): Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1887–1924; cr. Cardinal 1893.
99 Robert Murray Hyslop (1858–1935): industrialist; leading Congregationalist, and for many years Treasurer of the Congregational Union of England and Wales; chairman of West Kent Liberal Association 1910–1918, and of Home Counties Liberal Council 1920; knighted 1917.
100 Probably Henry Murphy (b. c.1867), of Kilcorkey.
101 Thomas Artemus Jones (1871–1943): Welsh barrister, KC 1919; unsuccessful Lib. candidate 1922, 1923, 1924; North Wales County Court Judge 1929–1942.
102 Philip Whitwell Wilson (1875–1956): author and journalist; Lib. MP for St. Pancras South 1906–Jan. 1910; Lib. candidate for Westmorland (Appleby) Dec. 1910.
103 Isaac Foot (1880–1960): solicitor; Lib. Councillor Plymouth 1907–1927; unsuccessful Lib. candidate 1910; Lib. MP Bodmin 1922–1924, 1929–1935; President of Methodist Conference 1937–1938; President of Liberal party 1947–1948.
104 Alice Crawshay-Williams, née Gay-Roberts (b.1887); divorced Eliot Crawshay-Williams (1879–1962) in 1913 following the latter's affair with Mrs Carr-Gomm and his resignation as Lib. MP for Leicester which he had won in 1910.
105 Richard Kingston, of Curraclough, County Cork. The boycott was still going on in 1914.
106 Bertram Alan Coghill Windle (1858–1929): anatomist and archaeologist; President, Queen's College (from 1907, University College), Cork 1904–1919; emigrated to Canada 1919.
107 George Elliott Dodds (1889–1977): at this time a student at Oxford; author of various works on Liberalism; Lib. candidate for York 1922 and 1923; Halifax 1929; Rochdale 1931 and 1935; President of the Liberal Party, 1948, editor of the Huddersfield Examiner 1924–1959.
108 Aneurin Williams (1859–1924): Lib. MP for Plymouth 1910, Durham North-Western 1914–1918, Consett 1918–1922; Chairman of First Garden City Ltd., Letchworth.
109 Howard Devenish Pearsall (1845–1919): Hampstead borough councillor; director of First Garden City Ltd., Letchworth; member of Fabian Society.
110 Walter Henry Gaunt (1874–1951); president of the National Housing and Town Planning Council in the 1930s; served on Lord Reith's committee on New Towns 1946.
111 Leonard Henry Courtney (1832–1918): Lib. MP Liskeard 1876–1885, Bodmin 1885–1900; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department 1881; Under-Secretary of State for Colonies 1881–1882; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1882–1884; President of Royal Statistical Society 1897–1899; cr. Baron 1906.
112 Walter Runciman (1870–1949): Lib. MP Oldham 1899–1900, Dewsbury 1902–1918, Swansea West 1924–1929, St Ives 1929–1937 (as Lib. Nat from 1931); Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1905–1907; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1907–1908; President of the Board of Education 1908–1911; President of the Board of Agriculture 1911–1914; President of the Board of Trade 1914–1916, 1931–1937; Lord President of the Council 1937–1939; cr. Viscount 1937.
113 Possibly the scientist of that name.
114 Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857–1941): army officer 1876–1910; founded Boy Scouts 1908, Girl Scouts 1909; Chief Scout of the World 1910–1937; cr. baronet 1921.
115 Dugald McTavish Lumsden (d. 1915 at age 64): raised a volunteer corps of Europeans in India to fight in the Boer War; given the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel and gazetted CB.