- Lord Milner (1854-1925)
High Commissioner in South Africa, 1897–1905, and a member of Lloyd George's 'war cabinet'
- Lionel Curtis (1872–1955)
Eminence grise of British imperial and foreign policy
- Geoffrey Dawson (1874-1944)
Editor of The Times from 1912-1919 and 1923-1941, prominently associated with the policy of 'appeasement' of Weimar and then Nazi Germany
- Philip Kerr, Lord Lothian (1882–1940)
Liberal politician and British Ambassador to Washington, 1939–40; also linked
to appeasement
