William John Hamilton was a British geologist who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament.
Baron Seaford,of Seaford in the County of Sussex,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 July 1826 for Charles Ellis,a Jamaican sugar planter and slave-owner who had earlier represented Heytesbury,Seaford and East Grinstead in the House of Commons. In 1798 he married the Hon. Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey,daughter of John Hervey,Lord Hervey,eldest son of Frederick Augustus Hervey,4th Earl of Bristol and 5th Baron Howard de Walden. In 1803 Lord Seaford's four-year-old son Charles Ellis inherited the barony of Howard de Walden from his great-grandfather and became the sixth Baron Howard de Walden. In 1845 he also succeeded his father as second Baron Seaford.
Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada,and of Glencoe in the County of Argyll,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1900 for the Scottish-born Canadian financier and politician Donald Smith,1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,with remainder in default of legitimate male issue to his only daughter,Margaret Charlotte. Smith had already been created Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,of Glencoe in the County of Argyll,and of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada,in 1897,with remainder to the legitimate male issue of his body. This title was also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
John de Vere Loder,2nd Baron Wakehurst,was a British Army officer,politician and colonial administrator. After serving in the army,the Foreign Office,and as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons,Wakehurst was appointed as the last British Governor of New South Wales,which he held from 1937 to 1946. Upon returning to Britain he was appointed Governor of Northern Ireland from 1952 to 1964. He was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1962 and died in 1970.
Donald Alexander Smith,1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897,was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner,governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin,George Stephen,co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada. He was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1896 to 1914. He was chairman of Burmah Oil and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. He was chancellor of McGill University (1889–1914) and the University of Aberdeen.
Murray de Vere Beauclerk,14th Duke of St Albans,,styled Earl of Burford from 1964 until 1988,is an English duke.
William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk,10th Duke of St Albans,PC DL,styled Earl of Burford until 1849,was a British Liberal parliamentarian of the Victorian era.
Francis Almeric Spencer,1st Baron Churchill DCL FRS was a British peer and Whig politician from the Spencer family.
Henry Waldegrave,1st Baron Waldegrave was an English peer and Jacobite supporter.
Gerald Walter Erskine Loder,1st Baron Wakehurst,JP DL LLB was a British barrister,businessman and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for developing the gardens at Wakehurst Place,Sussex.
George William Coventry,8th Earl of Coventry,styled Viscount Deerhurst from 1809 to 1831,was a British peer and Tory Member of Parliament.
Donald Euan Palmer Howard,4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,,was a British Conservative politician.
Henry Vivien Pierpont Conyngham,8th Marquess Conyngham,styled as Viscount Slane until 1974 and as Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009 and predominantly known as Lord Mount Charles,is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who is best known for the rock concerts that he organises at his home Slane Castle,and for his column in the Irish Daily Mirror under the byline "Lord Henry".
Granville Augustus William Waldegrave,3rd Baron Radstock was a British missionary and a baron in the Peerage of Ireland.
Lady Myra Idina Sackville was an English aristocrat and member of the Happy Valley set. Her behaviour and lifestyle scandalised upper class society.
Henry Evelyn Alexander Dewar,3rd Baron Forteviot,MBE,was a Scottish businessman. He was the son of John Dewar,1st Baron Forteviot and Margaret Elizabeth Holland and succeeded in 1947 as Baron Forteviot from his half-brother John who died childless.
William Craven,2nd Earl of Craven DL,styled Viscount Uffington until 1825,was a British peer.
Sir George Wombwell,2nd Baronet was an English first-class cricketer with amateur status who played for the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner was the youngest child of Herbert Gardner,1st Baron Burghclere,and the first wife of Evelyn Waugh. She was one of the Bright Young Things.
Margaret Howard,2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal was a British peer and medical doctor.
