Politics
- Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, current leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
- Lord Stodart of Leaston, Scottish Tory politician who served under Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath
- Sir Michael Spicer, Conservative MP and current chairman of the 1922 Committee
- Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador who was assassinated by the IRA
- The Viscount Falkland, Liberal Democrat politician and one of the 92 remaining hereditary peers elected to sit in the Lords
- Lord Gordon-Walker, British Cabinet Minister who served as Foreign Secretary under Harold Wilson
- Sir Alexander Grantham, British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong
- Lord Luce, current Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen
- Sir Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician
- Lord Campbell of Croy, British Cabinet Minister who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the whole of Edward Heath's government
- Lord Colnbrook, British Cabinet Minister
- Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, British Secretary of State for War (two separate times) and founder of the Lord Derby Cup
- Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate.
- John Dugdale, journalist, Labour MP, and government minister
- Julian Brazier, TD, Conservative MP for Canterbury since 1987 and shadow minister
- Edward Garnier, QC, Conservative MP for Harborough since 1992, Shadow Home Affairs Minister, Shadow Minister for Justice and Shadow Attorney General
- Antony Rivers Marlow, Conservatve MP for Northampton North, 1979-1997
- James Malcolm Monteith Erskine, Anti-Waste League, Independent Conservative, and Conservative member of parliament for Westminster St George's, 1921–1929.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“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)
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)
“His talk was like a spring, which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses:
It slipped from politics to puns,
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)