List of Old Brightonians - Politics, Public Service and The Law

Politics, Public Service and The Law

• Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician and Chancellor of the University of Exeter
• Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, Liberal MP for Kidderminster, Cambridge polo blue
• Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation, Chairman National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, High Sheriff of Derbyshire
• Keith Best (born 1949), lawyer and politician, Conservative MP for Anglesey and Ynys Mon 1979–87 (resigned and prosecuted for fraud), Director Prisoners Abroad 1989–93, Chief Executive Immigration Advisory Service, Chairman Conservative Action for Electoral Reform, Chairman of the Executive Committee World Federalist Movement
• Andrew Cayley QC (born 1964), barrister and solicitor specialising in international criminal law and now the UN International Co-Prosecutor of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.
• Sir John Chilcot (born 1939), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1990–97
• Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, Chief Commissioner of Assam, President of the Indian National Congress and Liberal MP for Nottingham East 1906–10
• Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP for Caithness and Sutherland
• William Fuller-Maitland (1844–1932), cricketer and politician, Oxford blue, played for the MCC, the Gentlemen, I Zingari and Essex, Liberal MP for Breconshire 1875–95
• Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for Preston South 1955–64 and 1970–74, Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1963–64
• Sir Cecil Augustus Charles Hendriks (1883-1960), civil servant, Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Lords 1935-60, MC
• Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford and legal historian
• Francis Hughes-Hallett (1838–1903), soldier and politician, Colonel Royal Artillery, Conservative MP for Rochester 1885–89 (resigned in a sex scandal)
• Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke (1854–1944), barrister and politician, MP Devonport (Conservative) 1910–23 and Cardiff East (Unionist) 1924–29, created baronet
• Augustus Margary (1846–1875), Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer in China
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harry Claude Moorhouse (1872–1934), soldier and colonial administrator, Chief Assistant Colonial Secretary, Lieutenant-Governor of the Southern Provinces Nigeria 1921–25, cricketer for the MCC
• Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of Papua New Guinea
• Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), Conservative MP for Guildford 1874–85, played cricket for Cambridge University, Sussex and the MCC
• Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist and then Unionist MP for Darlington, Assistant Postmaster-General, Privy Councillor and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
• Charles Campbell Ross (born 1849), banker and politician, Conservative MP for St Ives 1881–85
• Arthur Wellesley Soames (1852–1934), Liberal MP for South Norfolk 1898–1918, son of the Brighton College founder William Aldwin Soames
• George Hampden Whalley (1851–?), Liberal MP for Peterborough 1880–83 (resigned and declared bankrupt), imprisoned for theft, emigrated to Australia and vanished