Cuthbert AlportW
Cuthbert Alport

Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport, was a Conservative Party politician, minister, and life peer.

John AndréW
John André

John André was a major in the British Army and head of its Secret Service in America during the American Revolutionary War. He was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York, to the British.

Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of AngleseyW
Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey

Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey was a British peer. He served as Vice-Admiral of the Coast, North Wales and Carmarthenshire, and was an Honorable Colonel of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of AngleseyW
Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey

Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget until 1880 and Earl of Uxbridge between 1880 and 1898, and nicknamed "Toppy", was a British peer who was notable during his short life for squandering his inheritance on a lavish social life and accumulating massive debts. Regarded as the "black sheep" of the family, he was dubbed "the dancing marquess" and for his Butterfly Dancing, taken from Loie Fuller, where a voluminous robe of transparent white silk would be waved like wings.

Denis Edward ArnoldW
Denis Edward Arnold

Denis Edward Arnold MC was a British Army officer of the Second World War who won the Military Cross in 1944 for an opportunistic attack on a Japanese force while serving with the Chindits in Burma. Arnold served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the 7th Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. While in Burma, Arnold received a letter from his mother containing a pledge card that he would abstain from alcohol. He and his comrades found this very amusing since there was none to be found in the jungle. On returning to England with a bottle of whisky that he was saving for a celebration, Arnold was told by a customs officer that he must pay duty on the spirit. He smashed the bottle in disgust. After leaving the army, Arnold rejoined his former employers the Blue Circle Group, eventually becoming overseas operations director.

Valentine Baker (pilot)W
Valentine Baker (pilot)

Captain Valentine Henry Baker MC AFC, nicknamed "Bake", served in all three of the British Armed Forces during the First World War. After the war he became a civilian flight instructor, and co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company. He was the father of novelist Denys Val Baker.

Frederick BarterW
Frederick Barter

Frederick Barter VC MC was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Edward William Derrington BellW
Edward William Derrington Bell

Major General Edward William Derrington Bell, was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Harry CalvertW
Harry Calvert

Lieutenant General Sir Harry Calvert, 1st Baronet was a British general.

Alan Cathcart, 3rd Earl CathcartW
Alan Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart

Alan Frederick Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart (1828–1905) was a wealthy landowner and writer on agriculture.

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount CombermereW
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere

Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable.

Andrew CruickshankW
Andrew Cruickshank

Andrew John Maxton Cruickshank MBE was a Scottish supporting actor, most famous for his portrayal of Dr Cameron in the long-running UK BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook, which ran for 191 episodes from 1962 until 1971.

Charles DarbishireW
Charles Darbishire

Charles William Darbishire was a British Liberal politician and East India merchant.

Charles Macpherson DobellW
Charles Macpherson Dobell

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.

Charles Doughty-WylieW
Charles Doughty-Wylie

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu "Richard" Doughty-Wylie, was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Doughty-Wylie was also posthumously awarded the Order of the Medjidie from the very Ottoman Government he had fought against. He was generally known as Richard.

Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-DaviesW
Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies

Herbert Edmund Edmund-Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies of Aberpennar, PC was a British judge.

Nicholas Edwards, Baron CrickhowellW
Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell

Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC was a British Conservative Party politician who served as an MP from 1970 until 1987 and as Secretary of State for Wales during the first two terms of the Thatcher government.

Harold Freeman-AttwoodW
Harold Freeman-Attwood

Major General Harold Augustus Freeman-Attwood, was a British Army officer who fought in both World Wars.

Michael Gambier-ParryW
Michael Gambier-Parry

Major-General Michael Denman Gambier-Parry was a senior British Army officer who briefly commanded the 2nd Armoured Division during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War.

Richard Gambier-ParryW
Richard Gambier-Parry

Brigadier Sir Richard Gambier-Parry, was a British military officer who served in both the army and the air force during World War I. He remained in military service post-war, but then entered into civilian life for more than a decade. In 1938, he was recruited by the head of the Secret Intelligence Service. Gambier-Parry led the Communications Section of the SIS during World War II, and assembled a clandestine wireless network that connected the United Kingdom with SIS agents in many countries, as well as helping to create the SIS resistance network in Britain. During the war, he was also recruited by the Director of British Naval Intelligence to serve as the radio consultant for Operation Tracer in Gibraltar. Post-war, he ran a network of secret listening stations.

George VW
George V

George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

Will GladstoneW
Will Gladstone

William Glynne Charles Gladstone was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and the last of four generations of Gladstones to serve in the House of Commons, the first being his great-grandfather Sir John Gladstone(s) (1764–1851). His body was the last to be officially repatriated to the United Kingdom during the First World War.

Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of GraftonW
Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton

Charles Alfred Euston FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, known as Charles FitzRoy until 1936, was a British aristocrat, soldier, politician, and farmer.

Robert GravesW
Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was a British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Graves produced more than 140 works in his lifetime. His poems, his translations and innovative analysis of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life—including his role in World War I—Good-Bye to All That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess, have never been out of print.

John Griffith WilliamsW
John Griffith Williams

Sir John Griffith Williams is a retired Welsh judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He retired from the High Court with effect from 21 December 2014.

Thomas Bernard HackettW
Thomas Bernard Hackett

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bernard Hackett was born in Riverstown, County Tipperary and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Jack HawkinsW
Jack Hawkins

John Edward "Jack" Hawkins, CBE was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men.

Arthur William HodgeW
Arthur William Hodge

Arthur William Hodge (1763–1811) was a plantation farmer, member of the Executive Council and Legislative Assembly, and slave owner in the British Virgin Islands, who was hanged on 8 May 1811, for the murder of one of his slaves.

William Holmes (British Army officer)W
William Holmes (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir William George Holmes was a senior British Army officer who fought with distinction in the First World War. He later served in the Second World War, where he commanded the 42nd Infantry Division during the Battle of France in May/June 1940.

John HuskeW
John Huske

Lieutenant General John Huske was a British military officer, whose active service began in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and ended in 1748.

Frederick Hutton (scientist)W
Frederick Hutton (scientist)

Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton was an English-New Zealand scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand. An army officer in early life, he then had an academic career in geology and biology. He became one of the most able and prolific nineteenth century naturalists of New Zealand.

Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount KnollysW
Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys

Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, was a British courtier. He served as Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1901 to 1913.

George Latham (footballer)W
George Latham (footballer)

George Latham MC & Bar was a Welsh international footballer and coach. A veteran of the Second Boer War and World War I, he was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in Gaza, Palestine and Turkey between 1917 and 1918. He finished his military career at the rank of Captain.

Charles Lees (colonial administrator)W
Charles Lees (colonial administrator)

Sir Charles Cameron Lees was a British military officer and colonial administrator.

Desmond LlewelynW
Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor, best known for his role as Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.

Daniel Lysons (British Army officer)W
Daniel Lysons (British Army officer)

General Sir Daniel Lysons was a British Army general who achieved high office in the 1870s.

George Mann (cricketer)W
George Mann (cricketer)

Francis George Mann, was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex and England. He was born at Byfleet, Surrey and died at Stockcross, Berkshire.

André MorellW
André Morell

Cecil André Mesritz, known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959), in several of Hammer's horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars (1968).

Rhys Hopkin MorrisW
Rhys Hopkin Morris

Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris was a Welsh Liberal politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1923–1932 and from 1945–1956.

Luke O'ConnorW
Luke O'Connor

Major General Sir Luke O'Connor, was an Irish soldier who served in the British Army.. He was the first soldier to receive the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

Goronwy Owen (politician)W
Goronwy Owen (politician)

Goronwy Owen was a Welsh Liberal politician and businessman.

Tom Parry (politician)W
Tom Parry (politician)

Thomas Henry Parry, DSO, DL was a Welsh Liberal politician, lawyer and soldier.

Fred PerrettW
Fred Perrett

Fred Leonard Perrett was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Neath. He won five caps for Wales, and in his first international game faced the touring South Africans.

William Poulett, 7th Earl PoulettW
William Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett

William John Lydston Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett was an English peer and British Army officer.

Jonathon Riley (British Army officer)W
Jonathon Riley (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Jonathon Peter Riley, CB, DSO, is a retired British Army officer and military historian.

William RoacheW
William Roache

William Patrick "Bill" Roache is an English actor. He is best known for playing Ken Barlow on the long-running soap opera Coronation Street since it began airing on 9 December 1960. He is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving male television star in a continuous role.

John Russell (VC)W
John Russell (VC)

Captain John Fox Russell VC MC was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Siegfried SassoonW
Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".

Hugh StockwellW
Hugh Stockwell

General Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell, was a senior British Army officer most remembered for commanding the Anglo-French ground forces during the Suez Crisis and his service as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1960 to 1964.

William Henry Thomas SylvesterW
William Henry Thomas Sylvester

William Henry Thomas Sylvester VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Gwilym Lloyd GeorgeW
Gwilym Lloyd George

Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, was a Welsh politician and cabinet minister. The younger son of David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957.

Dick Thomas (rugby union)W
Dick Thomas (rugby union)

Edward John Richard 'Dick' Thomas was a Welsh international rugby union back who played club rugby for Mountain Ash.

Henry TorrensW
Henry Torrens

Lieutenant General Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens was a British army officer and colonial governor. He was born in Meerut, India, the son of Henry Whitelock Torrens and Eliza Mary Roberts and died in London.

Howard VincentW
Howard Vincent

Colonel Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent, known as Howard Vincent or C. E. Howard Vincent, was a British soldier, barrister, police official and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1908.

John Fane, 11th Earl of WestmorlandW
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland

John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.

Huw WheldonW
Huw Wheldon

Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon, was a Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive.

Bill WigginW
Bill Wiggin

William David Wiggin is a British Conservative Party politician, and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire since the 2010 general election, having previously represented the Leominster constituency from 2001 general election until it was abolished in 2010. The two constituencies cover much of the same area. In December 2019, Wiggin won 63% of the vote and a majority of 24,856.