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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
British politician (1784-1860)

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)
Gladwyn Jebb
acting Secretary-General of the United Nations (1900-1996)
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
British general, colonial official, diplomat (1738–1805)

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
British politician (1881-1959)

Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British former Labour Party politician, lobbyist and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004. He served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's cabinets as Minister without portfolio, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Business Secretary and First Secretary of State. He was the British Ambassador to the United States in 2025 under Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
politician from England (1592-1628)

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
British politician (born 1946)
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
British Conservative politician (1919–2018)

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
British politician (1760-1842)

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
British academic (1838-1922)
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician (1870–1963)

John Julius Norwich
British historian (1929–2018)

John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Army officer (1886-1946)
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
British Viceroy of India, diplomat and author (1831–1891)
William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
British diplomat (1773-1857)
Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth
Scottish diplomat, Secretary General of the League of Nations (1876-1951)
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society (1826–1902)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator (1841-1917)
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
British politician (1860-1935)
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (1737-1806)
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
British diplomat and Viceroy of India (1858–1944)
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
British Conservative politician (1880-1959)
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
led government army against Jacobites in 1715
John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
British politician (1792-1840)
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family (1641-1702)
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
British Whig statesman (1674-1738)
William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland
Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
British Army general and High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine (1857-1932)
Duff Cooper
British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author (1890-1954)
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
Scottish nobleman (1658-1712)
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
British diplomat (1907-1990)
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
British diplomat (1800-1870)
George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
British diplomat, politician and landowner (1758-1833)
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
British politician (1710-1771)
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
British politician and army officer (1735-1806)
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
British soldier, politician and nobleman (1778-1854)
David Wilson
administrator and diplomat from England (born 1935)
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
Irish politician (1745-1814)
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
British politician, diplomat and newspaper editor (1882-1940)
Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock
diplomat and politician from United Kingdom (1849-1928)
Kim Darroch
British diplomat (born 1954)
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
British politician (1786-1880)
Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
British diplomat (1658-1735)
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
British diplomat (1858-1945)
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
British politician and diplomat (1865–1948)
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
British diplomat; (1660-1718)
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
British diplomat, born 1746
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
British politician and statesman (1738-1786)
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
British soldier and Whig politician (1675-1749)
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
British Royal Navy admiral (1790-1858)
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
5th Baron Harlech, Member of Parliament and Ambassador to the United States (1918-1985)
Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
British diplomat and courtier (1702-1754)
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier
British diplomat
David Frost
British diplomat

Murray MacLehose
British politician (1917–2000)
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
British Whig politician and author (1797-1863)