Public Life
- James Allan - British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
- Sir Eric Berthoud - British ambassador to Denmark and Poland
- Erskine Childers - President of Ireland
- Sir Stewart Crawford - diplomat
- Kenelm Hubert Digby (1912–2001), proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate and later Attorney General and judge in Sarawak
- Bernard Floud - Labour politician
- Sir Cecil Graves - Director-General of the BBC
- Thomas George Greenwell - National Conservative member of parliament
- Sir Christopher Heydon - 16th century member of parliament
- Paul Howell - Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk
- Donald Maclean - diplomat and spy
- 11th Earl of Northesk - parliamentarian
- Terence O'Brien - British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia
- John Playfair Price, diplomat, a President of the Oxford Union
- Laurance Reed - Conservative politician
- Lord Reith - first Director-General of the BBC, politician
- Wilfrid Roberts - Liberal politician
- Christian Schiller - HM Inspector of Schools
- 11th Lord Strabolgi - Labour politician
- Dr Thomas Stuttaford - Conservative politician and journalist
- C. G. H. Simon (1914–2002), Income Tax General Commissioner
- Lord Simon of Glaisdale - Conservative politician and law lord
- Lord Simon of Wythenshawe - socialist and journalist
- Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp - Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir William Royden Stuttaford - President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations
- Sir Gerald Thesiger - High Court Judge
- Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service
- Lord Wilson of High Wray - governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - governor of The Gambia
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