British Union of Fascists - Prominent Members

Prominent Members

Despite the short period of operation the BUF attracted prominent members and supporters. These included:

• Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton KT, GCVO, AFC, PC, DL, FRCSE
• Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch KT GCVO TD PC, brother of Lord William Scott, who was another member.
• Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford
• Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington
• Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar KT JP, father of Lord Erskine, who was another member.
• Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll - Member of the Happy Valley set, famed for the unsolved case surrounding his murder and the sensation it caused during wartime Britain
• Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, was the Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for Basingstoke
• Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere - Owner of the Daily Mail
• William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield GBE CH - The Founder of Morris Motors LImited and a Philanthropist
• Ronald Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket, was the Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree
• Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold, was the former Member of Parliament for Penistone
• Montague Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC - Governor of the Bank of England
• David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, his wife and two of his daughters:
  • Lady Redesdale
  • Diana Mitford (Lady Mosley, after marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley in 1936)
  • The Hon. Unity Mitford
• Lady Cynthia Curzon (known as 'Cimmie'), second daughter of George Curzon, Lord Curzon of Kedleston and the wife of Sir Oswald Mosley until her death in 1933
• Edward Frederick Langley Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool CBE MC
  • Lady Liverpool
• John Francis Ashley Erskine, Lord Erskine, GCSI, GCIE, was the Conservative and Unionist MP for Weston-super-Mare and Brighton and assistant Government whip.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, MC, was the Conservative and Unionist MP for Roxburgh and Selkirk
• Colonel Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith GBE, was the Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for Petersfield
• Major Michael Beaumont TD, DL, JP, was the Conservative and Unionist MP for Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury
• John Beckett MP, was the Labour MP for Member of Parliament for Peckham
• Robert Forgan MP, was the Labour MP for West Renfrewshire
• William Edward David Allen, was the Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West.
• Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, was the Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for Peebles and South Midlothian
• Admiral Sir Murray Sueter Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for Hertford
• Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet
• Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domvile KBE CB CMG - former Director of Naval Intelligence
• Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO was a British naval surgeon, courtier and intimate of King George VI.
• Brigadier-General Sir Ormonde de l'Épée Winter KBE CB CMG DSO
• Sir Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, FRAeS - He was the first Englishman to make a powered flight (in 1908 at Brooklands) and the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later, on Walthamstow Marshes
• Sir Reginald Goodall - noted English conductor
• Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF, was also Liberal MP for Middlesbrough West
• Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller CB, CBE, DSO
• Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE - Director of the Bank of England
• Geoffrey Dawson - Editor of The Times
• St. John Philby CIE
• A. K. Chesterton MC
• Neil Francis Hawkins
• Arthur Gilligan
• Jeffrey Hamm
• William Joyce
• Tommy Moran
• Alexander Raven Thomson
• Henry Williamson
• Frank Bossard