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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2016
Lovely day. In the afternoon Reynolds, Atkinson and I walk over to Lelant where most of the big St. Ives boats lie up between seasons. Many of them, I fear, will never leave their moorings again. A mournful spectacle – 80 sail or so of the once brilliant fleet of St. Ives. Can motor-power avail to save them?
1 Lewis Vernon Harcourt (1863–1922): Lib. MP Rossendale 1904–1916; First Commissioner of Works 1905–1910, 1915–1916; Secretary of State for Colonies 1910–1915; cr. Viscount 1917; known as ‘Lulu’.
2 Edward Stafford Howard (1851–1916): Lib. MP Cumberland East 1876–1885, Thornbury 1885–1886; Under-Secretary of State for India 1886; Senior Commissioner of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues 1908–1912; Mayor of Llanelli 1913–1916; Ecclesiastical Commissioner 1914–1916; knighted 1909.
3 Thomas Henry William Pelham (1847–1916): Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade 1895–1913.
4 Kenneth Skelton Anderson (1866–1942): manager of the Orient Steam Navigation Company; knighted 1909, cr. baronet 1919.
5 Samuel Fay (1856–1953): general manager of the Great Central Railway 1902–1917; knighted 1912 by King George V at the opening of Immingham Dock.
6 John William Beaumont Pease (1869–1950): deputy chairman of Lloyds Bank 1910–1922, chairman 1922–1945; cr. Baron Waddington 1936.
7 Samuel Bostock (1868–1938): leading figure in the Agricultural Organisation Society (formed 1901); later a promoter of the Women's Institute movement.
8 Charles Pickering Hellyer (1876–1930): of Brixham and Hull, owner of the Hellyer Steam Fishing Company, Hull.
9 D.H. Lane, formerly Inspector of Irish Fisheries.
10 Norval Watson Helme (1849–1962): Lib. MP Lancaster 1900–1918; mill owner and leading lay Wesleyan.
11 Norman Carlyle Craig (1868–1919): Con. MP Isle of Thanet 1910–1919, when succeeded by Esmond Harmsworth; KC 1909.
12 William Brace (1865–1947): Vice-President of South Wales Miners’ Federation 1898–1911, President 1911–1920; Lib.-Lab. then Lab. MP Glamorgan South 1906–1918; Lab. MP Abertillery 1918–1920; chief labour advisor to Ministry of Mines 1920–1927.
13 A.T.A. Dobson (1885–1962): civil servant at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; later a leading international figure in marine conservation.
14 George Augustus Sutton (c.1869–1947): began working for Answers in 1888; held important roles in the Amalgamated Press and Associated Newspapers, Ltd.; cr. baronet 1919; a trusted associate of Northcliffe and an executor of his will.
15 Percy Basil Harmsworth Burton (1906–1970): eldest child of CBH's sister Christabel Rose Harmsworth (1880–1967) and Percy Collingwood Burton (d. 1953).
16 Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1864–1950): Irish Nat. MP Galway Borough 1906–1918; Protestant; writer; the son of John Gwynn, the Regius Professor of Divinity at TCD during Harmsworth's time there.
17 Walter Richard Nugent (1865–1955): Irish Nat. MP Westmeath South 1907–1918; succ. as 4th baronet 1896.
18 John Pentland Mahaffy (1839–1919): classicist and musicologist; Fellow, then Professor, TCD, 1864–1919 (Provost 1914–1919).
19 John Howard Whitehouse (1873–1955): Lib. MP Mid-Lanarkshire 1910–1918; subsequently a prominent educationalist.
20 Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Joddrell (1847–1917): lieut. col. in the territorials; Con. MP for the Wirrall 1885–1900; knighted 1911. Known until 1890 as Edward Cotton, he had shown some interest in fisheries during his parliamentary career.
21 John Barker (1840–1914): Lib. MP Maidstone 1900–191, Penryn and Falmouth 1906–1910; founder of Barker's department store in Kensington; cr. baronet 1908.
22 At this point the Lloyd Georges had four children: Richard (1889–1968); Olwen (1892–1990); Gwilym (1894–1967); and Megan (1902–1966).
23 Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman (1873–1927): author and journalist; Lib. candidate Dulwich 1903, Lib. MP West Ham (North) 1906–1911, Bethnal Green South-West 1911–1914, candidate West Ham (Stratford) 1918, Manchester Rusholme 1923–1924; Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1908–1909; Under-Secretary of State, Home Department 1909–1912; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1912–1914; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1914–1915.
24 Thomas James Macnamara (1861–1931): Lib. MP Camberwell North 1900–1918; Co. Lib. MP Camberwell North-West 1918–1924; Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1907–1908; Parliamentary and Financial to the Admiralty 1908–1920; Minister of Labour 1920–1922.
25 i.e. the workhouse run by the local Poor Law Union.
26 Walter James Primett (1864–1939): Mayor of Luton 1913–1915.
27 Arthur Bridgwater Richmond (c.1868–1935); m. 1900 Amelia Goodall (c.1869–1932).
28 Gaius Batchelor (b. c.1833). He had been a farmer at Park Farm, Eaton Bray since at least 1882. He appears to have slightly exaggerated his age to CH.
29 Thomas Henry Clack (b. c.1878): linotype operator.
30 Laurence Weaver (1876–1930): writer on architecture, influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement; knighted 1925.
31 Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley (1863–1937): Con. MP Harrow 1910–1918, Willesden East 1918–1923; cr. baronet 1922.
32 Arthur Mielziner Myers (1868–1926): Ind. then Lib. member of New Zealand House of Representatives 1910–1921; government minister 1912, 1915–1919; knighted 1924.
33 Charles Compton Reade (1880–1933): New Zealand-born journalist working mainly in Britain and becoming a leading member of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, before working in New Zealand 1911–12; selected to promote the garden cities movement in Australia and New Zealand with W.R. Davidge in 1914; became a very influential figure in Australian town planning.