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1917

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I call on Hodge, Labour Minister, at Montague House Whitehall and find him sitting a little incongruously in one of the State parlours of the D. of Buccleuch. I discuss with him the relations of my Committee to his Dept. and find him most friendly.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 50: PARLIAMENT AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF ASQUITH AND LLOYD GEORGE , May 2016 , pp. 239 - 261
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References

1 John Hodge (1855–1937): trades unionist; Lab. candidate for Gower 1900 and Preston 1903; Lab. MP for Gorton 1906–1923; Minister of Labour 1916–1917; Minister of Pensions 1917–1919.

2 John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott (1864–1935): Unionist MP for Roxburgh 1895–1906; succ. as 7th Duke of Buccleuch and 9th Duke of Queensbury 1914.

3 Hedley Francis Le Bas (1868–1926): founder of the Caxton Publishing Company; advised the government on propaganda during the First World War; knighted 1916.

4 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921): Chancellor of Germany 1909–1917.

5 Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924): US President 1913–1921.

6 George H. Lyster Todd: otherwise unidentified.

7 Lionel Halsey (1872–1949): naval officer and royal official; Fourth Sea Lord 1916–1917; Third Sea Lord 1917–1918; knighted 1918.

8 Violet Rosa Markham (1872–1959): Deputy Director of the Women's Section of the National Service Department 1917, and also fulfilled a wide variety of other public service roles; Lib. candidate for Mansfield 1918; Companion of Honour 1917.

9 Christopher Addison (1869–1951): Lib. (then Coalition Lib) MP for Hoxton 1910–1922; Independent Lib. candidate for Shoreditch 1922; Lab. candidate for Hammersmith South 1924; Lab. MP for Swindon 1929–1931, 1934–1935; Minister of Munitions 1916–1917; Minister of Reconstruction 1917–1918; President of the Local Government Board 1919; Minister of Health 1919–1921; Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture 1929–1930; Minister of Agriculture 1930–1931; Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords, 1945–1951; cr. Baron Addison 1937, Viscount 1945.

10 Nicholas II (1868–1918).

11 Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich (1878–1918). He never took up the throne and was later murdered by the Bolsheviks.

12 Frederick Edward Guest (1875–1937): army officer; cousin of Winston Churchill; Lib. candidate for Kingswinford 1906, Cockermouth 1906, Brigg 1907; Lib. (then Coalition Lib) MP for East Dorset 1910–1922, Stroud 1923–1924, Bristol North 1924–1929; Con. MP for Plymouth Drake 1931–1937; Lord of the Treasury 1911; Treasurer of the Royal Household 1912; Coalition Chief Whip 1917–1921; Secretary of State for the Air 1921–1922.

13 Edward Shortt (1862–1935): called to the Bar 1890; KC 1910; Recorder of Sunderland 1907–1918; Lib. MP for Newcastle upon Tyne 1906–1918; Newcastle West 1918–1922; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1918–1919; Home Secretary 1919–1922; President of the British Board of Film Censors 1929–1935.

14 Albert Holden Illingworth (1865–1942): industrialist; Lib. (then Coalition Lib) MP for Heywood 1915–1918; Heywood and Radcliffe 1918–1921; Postmaster General 1916–1921, cr. Baron Illingworth 1921.

15 Philip Henry Kerr (1882–1940): a key figure in Lord Milner's South African ‘kindergarten’; founding editor of The Round Table; private secretary to Lloyd George 1916–1921; managing editor of the Daily Chronicle 1921–1922; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1931; Under-Secretary of State at the India Office 1931–1932; Ambassador to the USA 1938–1940; Companion of Honour 1920; succ. as 11th Marquess of Lothian 1930.

16 Alfred Butt (1878–1962): Director of Rationing at the Ministry of Food, 1917–1918; Unionist MP for Balham and Tooting 1922–1936; theatrical figure and racehorse owner; resigned from the Commons after he was implicated in the scandal that brought down J.H. Thomas; knighted 1918; cr. baronet 1929.

17 Hudson Ewbanke Kearley (1856–1934): grocery magnate; Lib. MP for Devonport 1892–1910; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1905–1909; Chairman of the Port of London Authority 1909–25; Minister of Food Control 1916–1917; cr. baronet 1908; cr. Viscount Devonport 1917.

18 William George Stewart Adams (1874–1966): Gladstone Professor of Political Theory and Institutions 1912–1933; member of Lloyd George's Secretariat 1916–1918; Warden of All Souls 1933–1945, Companion of Honour 1936.

19 Richard Lloyd George (1889–1968): served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War; succ. as 2nd Earl Lloyd-George 1945.

20 Roberta Ida Freeman Lloyd George, née McAlpine (1868–1966); m. Richard Lloyd George 1917, divorced 1933.

21 Waldorf Astor (1879–1952): Con. MP for Plymouth 1910–1919; proprietor of The Observer; member of Lloyd George's prime ministerial secretariat; PPS to Lloyd George 1916–1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food 1918–1919; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, 1919–1921; succ. as 2nd Viscount Astor 1919.

22 Alfred Milner (1854–1925): Lib. candidate for Harrow 1885; High Commissioner in South Africa 1897–1905; member of the War Cabinet without portfolio 1916–1918; Secretary of State for War 1916–1918; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1918–1921; cr. Baron Milner 1901; cr. Viscount Milner 1902.

23 David Davies (1880–1944): industrialist; Lib. MP for Montgomeryshire 1906–1929; PPS to Lloyd George 1916; member of the prime minister's secretariat 1916–1917; cr. Baron Davies 1932.

24 Joseph Davies (1886–1954): industrialist; member of the prime minister's secretariat (and from 1917 its secretary) 1916–1920; Co. Lib. MP for Crewe 1918–1922; knighted 1918.

25 George Nathaniel Curzon (1859–1925): Con. candidate for South Derbyshire 1885; Con. MP for Southport 1886–1898; Under-Secretary for India 1891–1892; Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office 1895–1898; Viceroy of India 1899–1905; Lord Privy Seal 1915–1916; member of the War Cabinet 1916–1918; Foreign Secretary 1919–1824; Lord President of the Council 1924–1925; cr. Baron Curzon 1898; cr. Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1921.

26 George Nicoll Barnes (1859–1940): trades unionist; ILP candidate for Rochdale 1895; Lab. MP for Glasgow Blackfriars 1906–1918; left the Labour Party 1918 and re-elected as MP for Glasgow Gorbals against an official Lab. candidate; Minister of Pensions 1916–1917; member of the War Cabinet 1917–1918 and minister without portfolio 1917–1920; Companion of Honour 1920.

27 John Anderson (1882–1958): civil servant; Governor of Bengal 1932–1937; National MP for the Scottish Universities 1938–1950; Lord Privy Seal 1938–1939; Home Secretary 1939–1940; Lord President of the Council 1940–1943; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1943–1945; cr. Viscount Waverley 1952.

28 David Alfred Thomas (1856–1918): industrialist; Lib. MP for Merthyr 1888–1910; President of the Local Government Board 1916–1917; Minister of Food Control 1917–1918; Cardiff 1910; cr. Baron Rhondda 1916; cr. Viscount Rhondda 1918.

29 Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851–1937): Unionist candidate for Biggleswade 1907; Unionist MP for Oxford University 1914–1919; President of the Board of Agriculture 1916–1919; cr. Baron Ernle 1919.

30 Thomas Ashe (Tomás Aghas) (1885–1917): schoolteacher; sentenced to death for his role in the rebellion of 1916 but reprieved and subsequently released; imprisoned once more in August 1917 on a charge of sedition and died on 25 September after being forcibly fed following a hunger strike.

31 John Baptist Crozier (1853–1920): Archbishop of Armagh of the Church of Ireland and Primate of All Ireland 1911–1920.

32 George William Russell (1867–1935): poet and writer, who used the pseudonym Æ; author of, inter alia, Ireland, Agriculture and the War (n.p.: 1915) and a leaflet, Talks with an Irish Farmer (1916).

33 Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson (1875–1948): Conservative peer and Southern Unionist; Under-Secretary of State for War 1903–1905; succ. as 6th Earl of Donoughmore 1900.

34 William St John Fremantle Brodrick (1856–1942): Con. MP for West Surrey 1880–1885; Con. MP for Guildford 1885–1906; Financial Secretary to the War Office 1886–1892; Under-Secretary of State for War 1895–1898; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1898–1900; Secretary of State for War 1900–1903; Secretary of State for India 1903–1905; leading Southern Unionist; succ. as 9th Viscount Midleton 1907; cr. first Earl of Midleton 1920.

35 Eoin (John) MacNeill (1867–1945): scholar of Irish History; editor of the Irish Volunteer 1914–1916; Sinn Féin MP for Londonderry City 1918–1922 and also for the National University of Ireland 1918–1921 but did not take his seat; supporter of the Anglo-Irish treaty; Free State Minister of Education 1922–1925.

36 Eamon de Valera (1882–1975): sentenced to death for his role in the rebellion of 1916 but reprieved and subsequently released; Sinn Féin MP for East Clare 1917–1922 (but did not take his seat); leading opponent of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921; Taoiseach 1932–1948, 1951–1959; President of Éire 1959–1973.

37 Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929): French Army officer; Generalissimo of the Allied Armies 1918; Marshal of France 1918.

38 Luigi Cadorna (1850–1928): Chief of Staff of the Italian Army 1914–1917; Italian representative to the Allied Supreme War Council 1917–1919; Field Marshal 1924.

39 John Thomas Davies (1881–1938): private secretary to Lloyd George 1912–1922; knighted 1917.

40 Rothermere had been informed that morning that his eldest son, Vyvyan, had been wounded. He had also been injured on two previous occasions.

41 John Henry Whitley (1866–1935): Lib. MP for Halifax 1900–1928; Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1911–1921; Speaker 1921–1928; Chairman of the BBC 1930–1935.

42 Josiah Clement Wedgwood (1872–1943): Lib. (from 1919 Lab) MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1906–1942; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1924; cr. 1st Baron Wedgwood 1942.

43 Charles Carmichael Monro (1860–1929): army officer; C.-in-C., India, 1916–1920; Governor of Gibraltar 1923–1928; knighted 1915; cr. baronet 1921.

44 James Henry Thomas (1874–1949): Lab. MP for Derby 1910–18 36; General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen 1916–1831; Colonial Secretary 1924, 1935–186; Lord Privy Seal 1929–1831; Dominions Secretary 1931–1935; resigned from the government and the Commons after he was found to have disclosed Budget secrets to two friends.