Politics and Civil Service
- Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
- Michael Wentworth Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
- Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
- Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
- Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
- Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
- Sir Charles Pollard, police chief
- David Reddaway, diplomat
- David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
- The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
- Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
- Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
- Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord
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