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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.

Henry Fielding
English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
H. H. Asquith
British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 (1852–1928)
William Blackstone
English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)
Peter Benenson
English human rights activist (1921-2005)

Jack Straw
British politician (born 1946)
Cherie Blair
British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (born 1954)

William Harrison Ainsworth
English novelist (1805-1882)

Max Mosley
President FIA; former race car driver and British lawyer
Kenneth Clarke
British politician (born 1940)
Arnold Jackson
Athletics competitor, army officer, and lawyer (1891-1972)
Anna Soubry
British politician
Douglas Lowe
British athlete (1902–1981)
Augustine Birrell
British politician (1850-1933)
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
English novelist (1825-1900)
Alfred Domett
Prime Minister of New Zealand (1811-1887)
Henry Hallam
English historian (1777-1859)
Emily Thornberry
British politician (born 1960)
Frederic William Maitland
British historian (1850–1906)
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
British politician (1872–1930)

Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
British judge (1883-1962)
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
British politician (1900-1967)
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
British judge (born 1945)
Simon Tolkien
British writer, grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien
Dominic Grieve
British politician (born 1956)
Lucy Frazer
British politician (born 1972)
Martin Farquhar Tupper
English poet and novelist (1810–1889)
Clive Anderson
English television presenter
Montague Druitt
suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, cricketer, barrister and schoolteacher (1857-1888)
Douglas William Freshfield
British lawyer, mountaineer and author (1845–1934)
Edward Leigh
British politician (born 1950)
John Thurloe
English barrister (1616-1668)
William Prynne
English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure
William Garrow
British barrister, politician and judge (1760–1840)

Frederic Harrison
British historian (1831-1923)
A. P. Herbert
British politician (1890–1971)

Wayne Barnes
English retired rugby union referee
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss
English judge (born 1933)
Clarissa Dickson Wright
English celebrity chef, television personality, businesswoman and formerly a barrister (1947-2014)
Shami Chakrabarti
British lawyer and politician (born 1969)

Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
British politician (1861-1934)

John MacGregor
British canoeist (1825-1892)
Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle
English cricketer (1851-1937)
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
British colonial administrator (1712-1779)
Henry Crabb Robinson
British writer (1775-1867)

Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
British jurist and politician (1802–1880)
Dick Taverne
English barrister; Liberal Democrat life peer (1928-2025)
Rose Heilbron
British judge (1914–2005)
Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen
English judge (1835–1894)
Travers Twiss
British legal scholar (1809-1897)
Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet
English banker, barrister, mathematician, astronomer (1813–1865)
John Lee
British philanthropist, astronomer, mathematician, antiquarian and barrister (1783-1866)
Ed Vaizey
British politician
Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor
British barrister and politician (1852-1941)
Henry Bellingham
British politician (1955-)
Samuel Romilly
British politician; (1757-1818)
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
British writer and barrister (1792-1862)
Stuart Bell
British politician (1938-2012)
Richard Pankhurst
British politician (1834–1898)
Lancelot Ware
British politician (1915-2000)