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| William Maxwell (Max) Aitken (newspaper proprietor – took a controlling interest in the Daily Express in 1916, launched the Sunday Express in 1918, bought the Evening Standard in 1923) |
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Baron Beaverbrook | |
| H. H. Asquith |
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Earl of Asquith and Oxford | |
| Francis Bacon (English philosopher, statesman, etc., 1561–1626) | 1618 |
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Baron Verulam |
| 1621 |
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Viscount St. Alban | |
| Stanley Baldwin |
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Earl of Bewdley | |
| Jesse Boot |
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Baron Trent of Nottingham | |
| Melvyn Bragg |
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Baron Bragg of Wigton (Cumbria) | |
| John Buchan |
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Baron Tweedsmuir | |
| James Callaghan |
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Baron Callaghan of Cardiff | |
| General John Churchill (1702) |
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1st Duke of Marlborough | |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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Earl of Beaconsfield | |
| Sir Anthony Eden |
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Earl of Avon | |
| Alfred Harmsworth – founder of the Daily Mail (1896) and the Daily Mirror (1903) |
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Viscount Northcliffe | |
| Admiral John Jervis |
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Earl of St. Vincent | |
| Neil Kinnock (after the original name of his Westminster constituency) |
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Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty | |
| Harold Macmillan |
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Earl of Stockton | |
| William Morris |
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Viscount Nuffield | |
| Laurence Olivier |
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Baron Olivier of Brighton | |
| William Pitt the Elder |
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Earl of Chatham | |
| George Thomas (Speaker of the House of Commons, 1976–83) |
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Viscount Tonypandy | |
| William Thomson (physicist who developed the first and second laws of dynamics) |
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Baron Kelvin of Largs | |
| Norman Tebbitt |
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Baron Tebbitt of Chingford | |
| Margaret Thatcher |
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Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven | |
| Sir Hugh Trevor–Roper (historian) |
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Baron Dacre of Glanton | |
| Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley |
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Duke of Wellington | |
| Marcia Williams (private secretary 1956–64, political secretary 1964–76, to Harold Wilson; awarded a peerage 1974) |
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Baroness Falkender | |
| Shirley Williams |
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Baroness Williams of Crosby | |
| Harold Wilson |
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Lord Wilson of Riveaulx | |
| Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (Viceroy of India 1925-31, Foreign Secretary 1938-40) |
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Viscount Halifax – later 1st Earl of Halifax | |
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