Members of Parliament (Commons)

Johnston, Russell

(1932 - 2008)

Baron Russell-Johnston of Minginish

Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness 1964-83, Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber 1983-97

Chairman of the Scottish Liberal Party 1970-74, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Party 1974-88, President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats 1988-94

Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988-92

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 1999-2002

Jenkins, Roy

(1920 - 2003)

Baron Jenkins of Hillhead

Labour MP for Southwark Central 1948-50, Birmingham Stechford 1950-77; SDP MP for Glasgow Hillhead 1982-87

Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 1970-72, Leader of the SDP 1982-83, Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords 1988-97

Home Secretary 1965-67, 1974-76, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1967-70

President of the European Commission 1977-81

Harcourt, Lewis

(1863 - 1922)

1st Viscount Harcourt

Liberal MP for Rossendale 1904-17

First Commissioner of Works 1905-10, 1915-16, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1910-15

Harcourt, Sir William

(1827 - 1904)

Liberal MP for Oxford 1868-80, Derby 1880-95, West Monmouthshire 1895-1904

Leader of the Liberal Party 1896-98

Home Secretary 1880-85, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886, 1892-95

Gladstone, William Ewart

(1809 - 1898)

Tory MP for Newark 1832-45; Peelite MP for Oxford University 1847-65; Liberal MP for South Lancashire 1865-68, Greenwich 1868-80, Midlothian 1880-95

Leader of the Liberal Party 1866-75, 1880-94

President of the Board of Trade 1841-43, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1845-46, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1852-55, 1859-66, 1873-74, 1880-82, Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-4

Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands 1859

Freud, Sir Clement

(1924 - 2009)

Liberal MP for the Isle of Ely 1973-83, North East Cambridgeshire 1983-87

Fox, Charles James

(1749 - 1806)

Whig MP for Midhurst 1768-74, Malmesbury 1774-80, Westminster 1780-1806

Foreign Secretary 1782, 1783, 1806, Leader of the House of Commons 1782, 1783, 1806

Forster, William Edward

(1818 - 1886)

Liberal MP for Bradford 1861-85, Bradford Central 1885-86

Vice-President of the Committee on Education 1868-74, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1880-82

Foot, Isaac

(1880 - 1960)

Liberal MP for Bodmin 1922-24, 1929-35

President of the Liberal Party 1947-48

Secretary for Mines 1931-32

Foot, Sir Dingle

(1905 - 1978)

Liberal MP for Dundee 1931-45, Labour MP for Ipswich 1957-70

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare 1940-45

Ellis, Thomas Edward

(1859 - 1899)

Liberal MP for Merionethshire 1886-99

Liberal Chief Whip 1894-99

Crawshay-Williams, Eliot

(1879 - 1962)

Liberal MP for Leicester Jan 1910-13

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry

(1836 - 1908)

Liberal MP for Stirling Burghs 1868-1908

Leader of the Liberal Party 1899-1908

Chief Secretary for Ireland 1884-1885, Secretary of State for War 1886, 1892-95, Prime Minister 1905-08

Collings, Jesse

(1831 - 1920)

Liberal MP for Ipswich 1880-86, Liberal Unionist MP for Birmingham Bordesley 1886-1918

Cobden, Richard

(1804 - 1865)

Radical MP for Stockport 1841-47, West Riding of Yorkshire 1847-57, Liberal MP for Rochdale 1859-65

Churchill, Sir Winston

(1874 - 1965)

Conservative MP (Liberal from 1904) for Oldham 1900-06, Liberal MP for Manchester North West 1906-08, Dundee 1908-22, Constitutionalist/Conservative MP for Epping 1924-45, Woodford 1945-64

Leader of the Conservative Party 1940-55

President of the Board of Trade 1908-10, Home Secretary 1910-11, First Lord of the Admiralty 1911-15, 1939-40, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915, Minister of Munitions 1917-19, Secretary of State for Air 1919-21, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1921-22, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924-29, Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55

Nobel Prize for Literature 1953