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.