George Hamilton-Gordon,4th Earl of Aberdeen,,styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801,was a British statesman,diplomat and landowner,successively a Tory,Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855 in a coalition between the Whigs and Peelites,with Radical and Irish support. The Aberdeen ministry was filled with powerful and talented politicians,whom Aberdeen was largely unable to control and direct. Despite his trying to avoid this happening,it took Britain into the Crimean War,and fell when its conduct became unpopular,after which Aberdeen retired from politics.
John Russell,1st Earl Russell,,known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861,was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
John Arthur Roebuck,British politician,was born at Madras,in India. He was raised in Canada,and moved to England in 1824,and became intimate with the leading radical and utilitarian reformers. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1832 to 1847,and MP for the Sheffield constituency from 1849. He took up the general attitude of hostility to the government of the day,whatever it was,which he retained throughout his life. He twice came to public prominence:in 1838,when,although at the time without a seat in parliament,he appeared at the bar of the Commons to protest,in the name of the Canadian Assembly,against the suspension of the Canadian constitution;and in 1855,when,having overthrown Lord Aberdeen's ministry by carrying a resolution for the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the mismanagement in the Crimean War,he presided over its proceedings.
Frederick Spencer,4th Earl Spencer,KG,CB,PC,styled The Honourable Frederick Spencer until 1845,was a British naval commander,courtier,and Whig politician. He initially served in the Royal Navy and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence,eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He succeeded his elder brother as Earl Spencer in 1845 and held political office as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1846 and 1848 and as Lord Steward of the Household between 1854 and 1857. In 1849 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Sir James Robert George Graham,2nd Baronet was a British statesman,who notably served as Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty. He was the eldest son of Sir James Graham,1st Baronet,by Lady Catherine,eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Galloway.
Earl Peel is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Peel family descends from Robert Peel,eldest son of a wealthy cotton merchant. The family lands,known as Drayton Manor,in the County of Stafford would become more commonly known in modern-day as an amusement park. The family seat is Elmire House,near Ripon,North Yorkshire.
The Peelites were a breakaway dissident political faction of the British Conservative Party from 1846 to 1859. Initially led by Robert Peel,the former Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader in 1846,the Peelites supported free trade whilst the bulk of the Conservative Party remained protectionist. The Peelites later merged with the Whigs and Radicals to form the Liberal Party in 1859.
Sir George Grey,2nd Baronet,PC was a British Whig politician. He held office under four Prime Ministers,Lord Melbourne,Lord John Russell,Lord Aberdeen,and Lord Palmerston,and notably served three times as Home Secretary.
Edward Adolphus Seymour,12th Duke of Somerset,etc.,,styled Lord Seymour until 1855,was a British Whig aristocrat and politician,who served in various cabinet positions in the mid-19th century,including that of First Lord of the Admiralty.
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton,5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne,,styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851,was a British politician.
Edward Cardwell,1st Viscount Cardwell,was a prominent British politician in the Peelite and Liberal parties during the middle of the 19th century. He is best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for War between 1868 and 1874 and,with William Ewart Gladstone's support,the introduction of the Cardwell Reforms. The goal was to centralise the power of the War Office,abolish purchase of officers' commissions,and to create reserve forces stationed in Britain by establishing short terms of service for enlisted men.
Lord Palmerston,of the Whigs,first formed a government by popular demand in 1855,after the resignation of the Aberdeen Coalition. Initially,the government was continuation of the previous coalition administration but lost three Peelites within a few weeks. However,other Peelites like The Duke of Argyll and The Viscount Canning remained in office. Palmerston was heavily criticised by Parliament in 1857 over the conduct of the Second Opium War and called a dissolution,but the nation voiced its support in the resulting general election and he returned with a Whig majority.
George William Lyttelton,4th Baron Lyttelton,4th Baron Westcote,was an English aristocrat and Conservative politician from the Lyttelton family. He was chairman of the Canterbury Association,which encouraged British settlers to move to New Zealand.
George Smythe,7th Viscount Strangford,styled The Honourable George Smythe until 1855,was a British Conservative politician,best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young England movement. He served briefly as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1846 under Sir Robert Peel.
Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce,3rd Marquess of Ailesbury PC,styled Lord Ernest Bruce from 1821 until 1878,was a British courtier and politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1841 and 1846 and again between 1852 and 1858. An MP for 46 years,he succeeded his elder brother in the marquessate in 1878.
William Monsell,1st Baron Emly,PC was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Liberal politician. He held a number of ministerial positions between 1852 and 1873,notably as President of the Board of Health in 1857 and as Postmaster General between 1871 and 1873.
Sir Robert Peel,3rd Baronet,GCB,PC was a British Peelite,Liberal and from 1884 until 1886 Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
George Pitt-Rivers,4th Baron Rivers,known as George Beckford until 1828,was a British peer and politician. He held a place as a Lord-in-waiting in several governments,migrating from the Tory to the Liberal Party over the course of his career. He commanded the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry for a decade. His four sons all suffered from a lung disease,and only the youngest briefly survived him to inherit the barony.
