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1909

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Changeable day growing gloriously fine in the afternoon. Crowds of visitors on the lawn. Most successful party.

To town in the afternoon to attend Stationers’ Hall Banquet with H.S.H. Proposed toast of ‘The New Livery’. Struck more than ever by the great beauty of the Hall and of the Court or drawing-room.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 50: PARLIAMENT AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF ASQUITH AND LLOYD GEORGE , May 2016 , pp. 29 - 49
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22 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965): Con. MP Oldham 1900–1904; Lib. MP for Oldham 1904–1906, Manchester North-West 1906–1908, Dundee 1908–1922 (Co. Lib. 1916–1922); Con. MP for Epping 1924–1945, Woodford 1945–1964; Under-Secretary for the Colonies 1905–1908; President of the Board of Trade 1908–1910; Home Secretary 1910–1911; First Lord of the Admiralty 1911–1915, 1939–1940; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915; Minister of Munitions 1917–1918; Secretary of State for War and Air 1918–1921; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1921–1922; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924–1929; Prime Minister and Minister of Defence 1940–1945; Prime Minister 1951–1955; leader of Conservative party 1940–1955; Knight of the Garter 1953.

23 A fishing lodge in Galway.

24 This article was published in October 1909.

25 Charles Norris Nicholson (1857–1918): Lib. MP Doncaster 1906–1918; cr. baronet 1912.

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27 Edward Alfred Goulding (1862–1936): Con. MP Devizes 1895–1906; Unionist MP Worcester 1908–1922; cr. Baron Wargrave 1922.

28 Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930): Con. MP for Hertford 1874–1885, Manchester East 1885–1906, City of London 1906–1922; cr. Earl of Balfour 1922; President of the Local Government Board 1885–1886; Secretary of State for Scotland 1886–1887; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1887–1891; First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons 1891–1892, 1895–1902; Prime Minister 1902–1905; First Lord of the Admiralty 1915–1916; Foreign Secretary 1916–1919; Lord President of the Council 1919–1922, 1925–1929; leader of Conservative Party 1902–1911.

29 Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (1845–1927): (as Lib.) Under-Secretary for War 1872–1874, Under-Secretary for India 1880–1881; (as Lib. Unionist): Governor-General of Canada 1883–1888; Viceroy of India 1888–1894; Secretary of State for War 1895–1900; Foreign Secretary 1900–1905; leader of Unionist peers 1903–1916; succ. as 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1866.

30 ‘Alas! our fleeting years pass away.’ A reference to Horace, Odes II 14.

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34 John Singer Sargent (1856–1925): American artist who lived mostly first in Paris and then, from 1886, London.

35 Wilhelm II of Germany (1859–1941): abdicated 1918.

36 John Edward Redmond (1856–1918): Irish Nat. MP for New Ross 1881–1885, North Wexford 1885–1891, Waterford city 1891–1918; supported Charles Stuart Parnell on split of the Irish Parliamentary Party; took over leadership of Irish National League after Parnell's death, 1891; leader of reunited IPP 1900–1918.

37 Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879–1924): Lib. MP West Cambridgeshire 1906–1918, Cambridgeshire, 1918–1922; Under-Secretary of State for India 1910–1914; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1914–1915, 1915–1916; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915; Minister of Munitions 1916; Minister without Portfolio in charge of reconstruction 1917; Secretary of State for India 1917–1922.

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45 John Benjamin Stone (1838–1914): Con. MP East Birmingham 1895–1910; knighted 1892; a prolific photographer, he was known as the ‘Knight of the Camera’.

46 Louis Paulhan (1883–1963): French aviator.

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48 Rodolphe Lemieux (1866–1937): held a range of offices in Canadian politics including Speaker of the House of Commons 1922–1930.

49 John Henniker Heaton (1848–1914): Con. MP Canterbury 1885–1910; cr. baronet 1912.

50 Richard Tetley Glazebrook (1854–1935): Director of the National Physical Laboratory 1899–1919; knighted 1917.

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53 Cecil Desmond Bernard Harmsworth (1903–1990): son of Cecil Harmsworth.

54 Eric Beauchamp Northcliffe Harmsworth (1905–1988): son of Cecil Harmsworth.

55 By ‘Cryptos’ and James T. Tanner.

56 James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil (1861–1947), son of the third Marquess (who was Prime Minister 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902): Con. MP (as Viscount Cranborne) Darwen 1885–1892, Rochester 1893–1903; Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office 1900–1903; Lord Privy Seal 1903–1905, also President of the Board of Trade 1905; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1922–1923; Lord President of the Council 1922–1924; Lord Privy Seal 1924–1929; Leader of House of Lords 1925–1929; Conservative leader in House of Lords 1925–1931; succ. as 4th Marquess of Salisbury 1903.

57 Randall Thomas Davidson (1848–1930): ordained as Anglican priest 1875; Bishop of Rochester 1891–1895; Bishop of Winchester 1895–1903; Archbishop of Canterbury 1903–1928.

58 Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm (1877–1939): Lib. MP Rotherhithe 1906–1918; assistant private secretary to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1906–1908. In 1906 he married Kathleen Rome, divorcing her in 1913 after she had an affair with his fellow Liberal MP Eliot Crawshay-Williams.

59 By Douglas Murray, which may have been a pseudonym.

60 Albert St. John Harmsworth (1876–1933): the sixth Harmsworth brother; the first person to realise the commercial possibilities of Perrier water; a keen motorist, he was crippled in an accident in 1906.

61 Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908): Lib. MP for Stirling Burghs, 1868–1908; Secretary of State for War, 1892–1895; Prime Minister, 1905–1908; leader of Liberal party, 1898–1908; knighted 1895.

62 Anthony Patrick MacDonnell (1844–1925): Indian civil servant 1865–1901; Permanent Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1902–1908; cr. Baron MacDonnell 1908; Chairman of Royal Commission on Civil Service 1912–1914.

63 Charles Robert Spencer (1857–1922): Lib. MP for North Northamptonshire 1880–1885, Mid-Northamptonshire 1885–1895, 1900–1905; cr. Viscount Althorp 1905; Lord Chamberlain 1905–1912; succ. as 7th Earl Spencer 1910.

64 Robert Reid (1846–1923): Lib. MP for Hereford 1880–1885, Dumfries Burghs 1886–1905; Solicitor general 1894; Attorney General 1894–1895; Lord Chancellor 1905–1912; knighted 1894; cr. Baron Loreburn 1905; Earl Loreburn 1911.

65 Arthur Divett Hayter (1835–1917): Lib. MP for Wells 1865–1868, Bath 1873–1885, Walsall 1893–1895; junior whip 1880–1882; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1882–1885; chairman, Public Accounts Committee, 1901–1905; succ. as 2nd baronet 1878; cr. Baron Haversham 1906.

66 John Sinclair (1860–1925): Lib. MP for Dunbartonshire 1892–1895 Forfar 1897–1909; Secretary of State for Scotland 1905–1912; Governor of Madras 1912–1919; cr. Baron Pentland 1909.

67 James Lowther (1855–1949): Con. MP for Rutland 1883–1885, Penrith 1886–1918, Penrith and Cockermouth 1918–1921; Speaker of the House of Commons 1905–1921; cr. Viscount Ullswater 1921.

68 Albert Stanley (1863–1915): MP North-West Staffordshire 1907–1915; first elected as a ‘Lib-Lab’, joined Labour Party 1910.

69 William Lygon (1872–1938): Governor of New South Wales 1899–1901; Lord Steward 1907–1910; Lord President of the Council 1910, 1914–1915; First Commissioner of Works 1910–1914; Liberal leader in the House of Lords 1924–1931; succ. as 7th Earl Beauchamp 1891.

70 George Whitworth Hobson (d. 1940): active in Midlands Liberalism until the 1930s, serving as an Alderman.

71 Frank Wright (1853–1922): Liberal politician and manufacturer in Birmingham.