List of People From Kent - Politicians, Statesmen and Lawyers

Politicians, Statesmen and Lawyers

  • John Scott of Scott's Hall (–1485) – Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • William Scott of Scott's Hall (–1524) – Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • Thomas Cheney (c. 1485–1558) – Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • Nicholas Wotton (c. 1497–1567) – ambassador to France
  • Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (1501–1563) – peer
  • Anne Boleyn (c. 1501–1536) – wife of King Henry VIII
  • Sir John Peyton (–1558) – Governor of Jersey
  • Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (1566–1643) – Lord High Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland
  • Roger Twysden (1597–1672) – politician and antiquarian
  • Miles Sindercombe (–1657) – leader of a group that tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell
  • Sackville Crowe (c. 1611-c. 1683) – Member of Parliament and Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
  • Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1621–1682) – Lord Chancellor
  • Francis Lovelace (1621–1675) – second governor of the New York colony
  • Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764) – Lord Chancellor
  • Daniel Horsmanden (c. 1691-c. 1778) – judge who tried the supposed conspirators in the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741
  • Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797) – Governor General of British North America
  • Thomas Paine (1737–1809) – revolutionary
  • Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762–1832) – Lord Chief Justice
  • Charles Larkin (1775–1833) – electoral reformer
  • Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) – prison reformer
  • Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet (1781–1849) – Conservative Member of Parliament for East Kent
  • George Gipps (1791–1847) – Governor of the colony of New South Wales, Australia
  • Francis Bond Head (1793–1875) – Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837
  • William Locke Brockman (1802–1872) – early settler of Western Australia and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
  • Edmund Walker Head (1805–1868) – Governor General of the Province of Canada
  • Henry Young (1808–1870) – fifth Governor of South Australia
  • Wallace Bickley (1810–1876) – early settler of Western Australia and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
  • Charles Sladen (1816–1884) – sixth Premier of Victoria, Australia
  • Richard Ash Kingsford (1821–1902) – alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia, and a mayor of Cairns, Queensland
  • Edith Pechey (1845–1908) – suffragette and one of the first UK female doctors
  • Josceline Amherst (1846–1900) – member of Western Australia's first Legislative Council under responsible government
  • George Herbert Murray (1849–1936) – civil servant and Permanent Secretary of the Treasury
  • Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston (1851–1926) – Conservative Home Secretary
  • William Hall-Jones (1851–1936) – Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Janet Stancomb-Wills (1851–1932) – mayor of Ramsgate and philanthropist
  • Martin Conway (1856–1937) – Member of Parliament and art critic
  • Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster (1866–1936) – seventh Governor-General of Australia
  • Grote Stirling (1875–1953) – Member of Parliament in Canada
  • Wendy Wood (1892–1981) – campaigner for Scottish independence
  • Audrey Callaghan (1915–2005) – Greater London Councillor and wife of British prime minister James Callaghan
  • Philip Lucock (1916–1996) – Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in Australia
  • Edward Heath (1916–2005) – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Ron Ledger (1920–2004) – Labour Member of Parliament
  • John Vinelott (1923–2006) – High Court judge
  • Bob Astles (born 1924) – associate of Ugandan presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin
  • Jeanne Hoban (born 1924) – trade unionist in Sri Lanka
  • Geoff Braybrooke (1935 –) – New Zealand Member of Parliament
  • Brian Haw (1949 –) – anti-war protester
  • HRH The Princess Royal (Anne; born 1950) – only daughter of The Queen
  • Nick Brown (born 1950) – Labour Member of Parliament
  • John Redwood (born 1951) – Conservative Member of Parliament
  • James Arbuthnot (born 1952) – Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Paul Clark (politician) (born 1957) – Labour Member of Parliament
  • Nicky Crane (1958–1993) – neo-Nazi activist
  • Sean Gabb (born 1960) – director of the free market and civil liberties think-tank, Libertarian Alliance
  • Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) – former wife of The Prince of Wales
  • HRH The Countess of Wessex (Sophie; born 1965) – wife of The Earl of Wessex

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