Baron Aberdare,of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 August 1873 for the Liberal politician Henry Bruce. He served as Home Secretary from 1868 to 1873. His grandson,the third Baron,was a soldier,cricketer and tennis player and a member of the International Olympic Committee. His son,the fourth Baron,held office in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. As of 2017 the title is held by his son,the fifth Baron,who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.
Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury. Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries,particularly the 3rd Marquess,who served three times as Prime Minister in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
James Norwich Arbuthnot,Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom,,is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997,and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst,Baron Haselhurst,,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017,having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010,and later Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014. The oldest Conservative MP to stand down at the 2017 general election,he was created a Life Peer in May 2018,sitting in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.
Marquess of Lansdowne is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1784,and held by the head of the Petty-Fitzmaurice family. The first Marquess served as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Baron Hamilton of Dalzell,in the County of Lanark,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1886 for the Liberal politician John Hamilton. He had previously represented Falkirk and Lanarkshire South in the House of Commons and after his elevation to the peerage served under William Ewart Gladstone as a Government Whip from 1892 to 1894. His eldest son,the second Baron,was a Government Whip from 1905 to 1911 in the Liberal administrations of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire. His nephew,the third Baron,was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. As of 2010 the title is held by the latter's grandson,the fifth Baron,who succeeded his father in 2006.
Baron Chesham,of Chesham in the County of Buckingham,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1858 for the Hon. Charles Cavendish,who had earlier represented Aylesbury,Newtown,East Sussex,Youghal and Buckinghamshire in the House of Commons as a Liberal.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
Thomas Lionel Dugdale,1st Baron Crathorne,,known as Sir Thomas Dugdale,1st Baronet from 1945 to 1959,was a British Conservative Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Down Affair,often quoted as a classic example of the convention of individual ministerial responsibility.
Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Charles Ponsonby,7th Baron de Mauley,,is a British hereditary peer,former Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs and retired Territorial Army officer.
Frederick James Erroll,1st Baron Erroll of Hale,Baron Erroll of Kilmun,was a British Conservative politician.
Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,11th Earl of Dundee,was a Scottish nobleman,soldier and politician.
John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter,Baron Boyd-Carpenter,PC,DL was a British Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames from 1945 to 1972,when he was made a life peer. He served in several ministerial roles throughout the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964,and was Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1962 to 1964.
Frank Ashcroft Judd,Baron Judd,was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002,and from 2002 to 2015,a trustee. In 2007,he became a member of the advisory board at the Centre for Human Rights,and from 2014 to 2015,a member of the Commission on Diplomacy,at the London School of Economics. He was a member of the Unite and GMB trade unions.
James Leslie Hamilton,4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell,,was a British Conservative Party hereditary peer.
Robert William Elliott,Baron Elliott of Morpeth,Kt. was a British Conservative politician.
Commander John Cyril Edmondson,2nd Baron Sandford,DSC was a decorated Royal Navy officer,Church of England clergyman,conservationist and Conservative politician. As a junior minister charged with a review of policy on national parks,he formulated what became known as the "Sandford principle":if there is a conflict between leisure use of the National Park,and protecting its natural state,the state of the park must be preserved.
Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson,1st Viscount Burnham,,was a British newspaper proprietor. He was originally a Liberal politician before joining the Liberal Unionist Party in the late 1890s. He sat in the House of Commons 1885–1892,1893–1895,1905–1906 and 1910–1916 until he inherited the Burnham barony on the death of his father.
John d'Henin Hamilton,3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell,,was a British peer and courtier. He served with the Coldstream Guards during the Second World War,and after succeeding his uncle in the peerage in 1952,became a Lord-in-Waiting and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.
Dominic Robert Andrew Johnson,Baron Johnson of Lainston,,is a British financier,hedge fund manager and politician,the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Somerset Capital Management. He currently serves as a Minister of State in the Department for Business and Trade,having served in the department during the tenure of Liz Truss. Johnson has given more than £250,000 to the Conservative Party,and was its vice-chairman from 2016 to 2019.
