¹ John Ward (1866–1934): trades unionist; MP for Stoke-upon-Trent and a successor constituency 1906–1929, first as a Lib-Lab, as a Lib. Coalitionist from 1918, and as Constitutionalist from 1924, rejoining the Liberal Party later that year. During the First World War he served in France with the 21st Middlesex regiment, of which he was lieutenant colonel.

² William Brace (1865–1947): Lab. MP for South Glamorgan 1906–1918 (initially Lib-Lab), Abertillery 1918–1920; Under-Secretary for Home Affairs 1915–1919. The other Labour ministers were Arthur Henderson, President of the Board of Education, and George Henry Roberts (1868–1928), Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. The resignations were rescinded after assurances were given that the proposed Military Service Act would not be used for the purposes of industrial conscription.

³ Anthony Asquith (1902–1968): youngest son of H.H. and his second wife Margot; became a successful film director.

⁴ James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (1903–2000): third child of Walter Runciman; known as Steven; became an historian; knighted 1958.

⁵ John Alexander Dewar (1856–1929): whisky blender; brother of Thomas Dewar; Lib. MP for Inverness-shire from 1900–1916; cr. baronet 1907; cr. 1st Baron Forteviot 1916.

⁶ Basil Clarke (d. 1947 at age 68): journalist and subsequently public information official; knighted 1923.

⁷ Under the Derby recruiting scheme of 1915, married men were encouraged to ‘attest’ their willingness to join up if the war situation were to demand it.

⁸ William Morris Hughes (1862–1952): Prime Minister of Australia 1915–1923, initially as leader of the Labor Party and subsequently as leader of the Nationalist Party, which he founded. A member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace conference in 1919.

⁹ Percy Alfred Harris (1876–1952): Lib. candidate for Harrow Jan. 1910; Lib. MP for Market Harborough 1916–1918; Bethnal Green 1922–1945; Chief Whip 1935–1945; cr. baronet 1932.

¹⁰ Dr Arthur Turnbull (? b.1884): a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He subsequently wrote to The Times apologising for his course of action; fought three by-elections as an Independent during 1916.

¹¹ McKenna had four brothers; it is unclear which one is referred to here.

¹² Matthew Nathan (1862–1939): Under-Secretary for Ireland 1914–1916, having previously held various colonial governorships; Governor of Queensland 1920–1925; knighted 1899.

¹³ John Grenfell Maxwell (1859–1929): army officer; Major General 1906; appointed as commanding officer with dictatorial powers following the Easter Rising of 1916; responsible for the disastrous decision to shoot fifteen of the rebels; knighted 1915.

¹⁴ Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916): President of the provisional Irish Republic that the rebels declared.

¹⁵ Thomas Stanislaus MacDonagh (1878–1916): poet, one of seven signatories to the proclamation of the Republic.

¹⁶ Thomas James Clarke, (1858–1916): a significant figure in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, first signatory to the proclamation of the Republic.

¹⁷ Frederick George Banbury (1850–1936): Con. MP for Peckham 1892–1906; City of London 1906–1924; cr. baronet 1903; privy councillor 1916; cr. 1st Baron Banbury of Southam 1924.

¹⁸ Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse (1862–1941): Lib. MP for Wiltshire East 1892–195; Bristol East 1900–1918; Under-Secretary of State for India 1907–1908; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1908–1911; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1911–1914; Postmaster General 1914–1915; succ. as 4th baronet 1916.

¹⁹ Thomas Lough (1850–1922): Lib. candidate for Truro 1886; Lib. MP for West Islington 1892–1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education 1905–198.

²⁰ His Majesty's Lieutenant, or Lord Lieutenant, a largely honorific position.

²¹ i.e. dismissed for inadequacy. During the Boer War incompetent British officers were sent to a camp at Stellenbosch in order to await transport to Britain. In his ministerial role, Lough had handled the government's Education Bill poorly.

²² John Mackinnon Robertson (1856–1933): freethinker and rationalist author; independent Radical candidate for Northampton 1895; Lib. MP for Tyneside 1906–1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1911–1915.

²³ Alfred Moritz Mond (1868–1930): industrialist; Lib. MP for Chester 1906–1910; Swansea 1910–1923, 1924–1928 (joining the Conservative Party in 1926); First Commissioner of Works 1916–21; Minister of Health 1921–1922; cr. baronet 1910; cr. Baron Melchett of Landford 1928.

²⁴ Henry Edward Duke (1855–1939): called to the Bar 1885; served as a judge from 1897–1933; QC 1899; Unionist MP for Plymouth 1900–1906; Exeter Jan. 1910–1918; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1916–1918; cr. Baron Merrivale of Walkhampton 1925.

²⁵ Lord Claud John Hamilton (1843–1925): Con. MP for Londonderry City 1865–1868; King's Lynn 1869–1880; Liverpool 1880–1885; Liverpool West Derby 1885–1888; South Kensington Jan. 1910–1918; served as Lord of the Treasury 1868; Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway.

²⁶ Robert Bannatyne Finlay, (1842–1929): called to the Bar 1867; QC 1882; Lib. candidate for East Lothian 1883; Lib. then Lib. Unionist MP for Inverness Burghs 1885–1892, 1895–1906; Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities Jan. 1910–1916; Solicitor General 1895–1900; Attorney General 1900–1905; Lord Chancellor 1916–1919; knighted 1895; cr. Baron Finlay 1916; cr. Viscount Finlay 1919.

²⁷ Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley (1851–1926): called to the Bar 1886; QC 1892; Con. candidate for Sheffield 1879; Con. MP for Sheffield 1880–1885; Sheffield Hallam 1885–1916; Under-Secretary at the Home Office 1885–1886, 1886–1892; cr Lord Stuart of Wortley 1916.

²⁸ William James Pirrie (1847–1924): Chairman of the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff from 1895; Comptroller of the Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1907–1913; cr. Baron Pirrie 1906; cr. Viscount Pirrie 1921; m. Margaret Montgomery Carlisle (1857–1935) 1879.

²⁹ Hilda Runciman, née Stevenson (1869–1956): m. Walter Runciman 1898; Lib. MP for St. Ives 1928–1929; Lib. candidate for Tavistock 1929; became Viscountess Runciman of Doxford in 1937 when her husband was elevated to the peerage.

³⁰ Hilda Harrisson (1887–1972): widow of Captain Roland Harrisson (1882–1917); painter; one of several Asquith confidantes.

³¹ i.e. Lucas White King.

³² Annie Evelyn Barrington (d. 1955): m. Albert Edward Handcock, 5th Baron Castlemaine 1895.

³³ Ernest Henry Alton (c.1873–1952): Fellow of TCD from 1905; Chair of Latin 1921–1942; Provost 1942–1952.

³⁴ William Joseph Myles Starkie (1860–1920): President of Queen's College, Galway, 1897–1899; Resident Commissioner of National Education in Ireland 1899–1920.

³⁵ i.e. Bernard. The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin signed himself ‘John Dublin’.

³⁶ William Martin Murphy (1844–1919); tramway entrepreneur and press magnate; Irish Nat. MP for St. Patrick's, Dublin 1885–1892; candidate for Kerry South 1895; Mayo North 1900.

³⁷ The Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland, chaired by Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, reported in June 1916.

³⁸ John Foster George Ross (d. 1926 at age 77); Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police 1901–1914; resigned in protest at the dismissal of W.V. Harrel (see following note); knighted 1903.

³⁹ William Vesey Harrel (1866–1956); Assistant Commissioner of the Dublin Police for twelve years prior to 1914, when he was dismissed in the wake of the Howth gun-running affair, in which a Nationalist attempt to land weapons was followed by the shooting of unarmed civilians by the authorities.

⁴⁰ George Francis Stewart (1851–1928): land agent; Irish Unionist.

⁴¹ William Joshua Goulding (1856–1925); member of the Irish Convention 1917–1918; subsequently member of the Irish Free State Senate; cr. baronet 1904.

⁴² Robert Chalmers (1858–1938): Treasury civil servant 1882–1919, including a period as Permanent Secretary (1911–1913): and with a break during which he served as Governor of Ceylon (1913–1915). From May to September 1916 he served as Under-Secretary for Ireland. Knighted 1900; cr. Baron Chalmers of Northiam 1919.

⁴³ John Nicholson Barran (1872–1952); Lib. MP for Hawick Burghs 1909–1918; Lib. candidate for North-West Hull 1922, 1923 and 1924; succ. as 2nd baronet 1905. During his Commons career he served as PPS to a succession of ministers, including Samuel.

⁴⁴ Bernard Pares (1867–1949): professor of Russian language, literature and history at London University 1919–1936; spent much time in Russia during and after the First World War, becoming an adviser to the anti-Bolshevik forces during the civil war; knighted 1919.

⁴⁵ Charles William de la Poer Beresford (1846–1919): high-ranking and controversial naval officer; Conservative MP for East Marylebone 1885–1992, Woolwich, 1902–1903, Portsmouth 1910–1916; cr. Baron Beresford 1916.

⁴⁶ Paul Cambon (1843–1924): French Ambassador to Britain 1898–1920.

⁴⁷ Count Alexander Konstantinovich Benckendorff (1849–1917): Russian ambassador to Britain1903–1917.

⁴⁸ Jesse Collings (1831–1920): advocate of land reform and follower of Joseph Chamberlain; Mayor of Birmingham 1878–1880; Lib. MP for Ipswich 1880–1886; Lib. Unionist MP for Birmingham Bordesley 1886–1918; Under-Secretary to the Home Office 1895–1902.

⁴⁹ Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940): civil servant; joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury 1913–1919; knighted 1909.

⁵⁰ Horace Curzon Plunkett (1854–1932): Unionist MP for South County Dublin1892–1900; founded the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society 1894; chaired the Irish Convention 1917–1918; Irish Free State Senator 1922–193; knighted 1903.

⁵¹ Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe (1848–1934): Director of Public Prosecutions 1894–1908; Treasury Solicitor 1894–1909; knighted 1898; succ. as 5th Earl of Desart 1898; cr. Baron Desart 1909.

⁵² William Hutcheson Poë (1848–1934): army officer, landowner and magistrate; Irish Free State Senator 1922–1925.

⁵³ William Robert Robertson (1860–1933): army officer; Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1915–1918; Field Marshal 1920; cr. baronet 1919.

⁵⁴ Maurice Healy (1859–1923): Irish Nat. MP For Cork City, 1885–1900, 1909–1910, 1910–1918.

⁵⁵ William Birchenough: test pilot.

⁵⁶ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928): army officer; Commander-in-Chief (C.-in-C.) of the British Expeditionary Force 1915–1918 and of the Home Forces 1918–1921; Field Marshal 1917; cr. Earl Haig 1919.

⁵⁷ John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859–1935): naval officer; commander of the Grand Fleet 1914–1916; First Sea Lord 1916–1917; Admiral of the Fleet 1919; Governor-General of New Zealand 1920–1924; knighted 1907; cr. Viscount Jellicoe 1918; first Earl Jellicoe 1925.

⁵⁸ Alan Leonard Romaine Parsons (1889–1933): civil servant and drama critic of the Daily Mail.

⁵⁹ Northcliffe, Lord, At the War (London, 1916)Google Scholar. Published by Hodder & Stoughton for the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the order of St John of Jerusalem in England.