United University Club - Notable Members

Notable Members

  • William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), prime minister
  • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947), prime minister
  • John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (1883–1946), economist
  • Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel (1829–1912), Speaker of the House of Commons 1884–1895
  • Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868–1933), Viceroy of India 1916–1921
  • John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton (1825–1897), politician
  • Alexander Staveley Hill KC MP (1825–1905), barrister and politician
  • Douglas Freshfield (1845–1934), mountaineer
  • Sir Owen Seaman (1861–1936), editor of Punch 1906–1932
  • Herbert Trench (1865–1923), poet
  • Sir Leslie Scott KC MP (1869–1950), barrister and politician
  • Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian, 1st Baronet (1870–1951), barrister and politician
  • Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1879–1958), mountaineer and poet
  • Percy Herbert, Bishop of Norwich (1885–1968)
  • Sir Ivor Jennings (1903–1965), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  • J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson (1889–1970), politician

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