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William Ernest Brymer was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two stages between 1874 and 1906.

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Edward St Vincent Digby, 9th Baron Digby, also 3rd Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, was a British peer.

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George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, PC, PC (Ire), styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795.

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John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament (MP) during the Victorian era.

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Cecil Phelips Goodden was an English cricketer, writer and British Army and Royal Marines officer. Goodden was a right-handed batsman. The son of John Robert Phelips Goodden, who would later become High Sheriff of Dorset, and Caroline Samuelson, he was born in Compton House, the family home of the Goodden family, in the village of Over Compton, Dorset. He was later educated at Harrow School, where he played for the school cricket team in 1899.

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Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro was a British Conservative Party politician. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark but was a British Subject.

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Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, PC, styled Lord Stavordale from birth until 1802, was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1841.

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Sir Frederick John William Johnstone, 8th baronet was an English racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Elliott Lees, 1st Baronet, DSO, was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington was an Irish peer.

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Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington, known as Lionel Dawson-Damer until 1889, was a British peer and Conservative politician.

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, was the son of the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina Chichester, the daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall and Lady Harriet Anne Butler.

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Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge,, styled Lord Richard Grosvenor between 1845 and 1886, was a British politician and businessman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1872 and 1874 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between 1880 and 1885. However, he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 and joined the Liberal Unionists.

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Louis Arbon Strange, was an English aviator, who served in both World War I and World War II.

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Lewis Dymoke Grosvenor Tregonwell was a captain in the Dorset Yeomanry and a historic figure in the early development of what is now Bournemouth.

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Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 2nd Baronet, DL was a Welsh industrialist and a member of the prominent Guest family.

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Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, KP, PC, known as Lord Ashby St Ledgers from 1910 to 1914 and as Lord Wimborne from 1914 to 1918, was a British politician and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising.