Prominent Liberal Unionists
- Sir Jonathan Backhouse, 1st Baronet
- George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
- Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford
- John Bright
- Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
- Austen Chamberlain
- Joseph Chamberlain
- Jesse Collings
- Arthur Conan-Doyle
- Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
- A.V. Dicey
- Millicent Fawcett
- George Goschen
- Lord Richard Grosvenor (later Lord Stalbridge)
- Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (later Duke of Devonshire)
- Sir Henry James (later Lord James of Hereford)
- W.E.H Lecky
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
- Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
- Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
- William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
- Henry Sidgwick
- George Otto Trevelyan (rejoined the Liberals in 1887)
- Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
- Nevil Story Maskelyne
- Frederick Neville Sutherland Leveson-Gower
The journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley served one term as the Liberal Unionist member of parliament for Lambeth North between 1895 and 1900.
Leo Amery, who is well known for his later career as a senior Conservative politician and Cabinet minister, was originally elected as a Liberal Unionist at a Birmingham South by-election in 1911. He was a strong supporter of Joseph Chamberlain and of Tariff Reform.
The writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist parliamentary candidate in 1900 and 1906, in the Scottish seats of Edinburgh Central and Hawick Boroughs respectively. Also standing in 1906 as a Liberal Unionist was the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton for one of the two-member Dundee seats. Despite his fame, Shackleton was defeated.
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