Politics
- Billy Blyton, Baron Blyton (1899–1987) of South Shields, Labour Party politician
- Sir William Fox (1812–1893) four times Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Harold Heslop (1898–1983) Trade unionist and writer
- Charles Mark Palmer (1822–1907), ship builder and Liberal Member of Parliament
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“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)