David Martin Scott Steel,Baron Steel of Aikwood,is a retired Scottish politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh,Selkirk,and Peebles,followed by Tweeddale,Ettrick,and Lauderdale,he served as the final leader of the Liberal Party,from 1976 to 1988. His tenure spanned the duration of the alliance with the Social Democratic Party,which began in 1981 and concluded with the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988.
William Thomas Rodgers,Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank,,is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament,he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979,and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988,and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.
Alan James Beith,Baron Beith,is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2015.
Malcolm Gray Bruce,Baron Bruce of Bennachie,is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
Patrick Thomas Cormack,Baron Cormack,was a British politician,historian,journalist and author. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 40 years,from 1970 to 2010. Cormack was a member of the Conservative Party and was seen as a one-nation conservative.
William Michael Hardy Spicer,Baron Spicer,was a British politician and life peer who was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 2010 until 2019. He served as Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire from 1974 to 2010 and was a minister from 1984 to 1990. He later served as chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2001 to 2010.
Nigel David Jones,Baron Jones of Cheltenham was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1992 to 2005,and as a member of the House of Lords from 2005 until his death in 2022.
John Rhodes Horam,Baron Horam is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He represented three parties in Parliament –originally Labour,he defected to the SDP on its foundation in 1981,then to the Conservatives in 1987 –and served as a Minister in both Labour and Conservative Governments. On 4 September 2013,he was created a working life peer as Baron Horam of Grimsargh in the County of Lancashire. He is a founder and vice chair of the Common Sense Group of Conservative Parliamentarians.
Paul Archer Tyler,Baron Tyler,is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from February to October 1974 and from 1992 to 2005,and sat in the House of Lords as a life peer until October 2021.
Robert Andrew Stunell,Baron Stunell,was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove from 1997 until he stood down in 2015,and then a member of the House of Lords from 2015.
Graham Norman Tope,Baron Tope,is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was also a councillor in the London Borough of Sutton until 2014.
Eric Reginald Lubbock,4th Baron Avebury,was an English politician and human rights campaigner. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Orpington from 1962 to 1970. He then served in the House of Lords,having inherited the title of Baron Avebury in 1971,until his death. In 1999,when most hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords,he was elected by his fellow Liberal Democrats to remain. When he died,he was the longest serving Liberal Democrat peer.
Nicholas Francis St Aubyn is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Dick Taverne,Baron Taverne,is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he was a Labour MP until his deselection in 1972,following which he resigned his seat and won the subsequent by-election in 1973 as a Democratic Labour candidate.
Sir Charles Hilton Seely,2nd Baronet,VD,KGStJ was a British industrialist,landowner and Liberal Unionist politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1895 to 1906 and for Mansfield from 1916 to 1918. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire and Nottinghamshire and the Deputy Lieutenant for Nottinghamshire. He was also a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John.
John Francis Hodgess Roper,Baron Roper PC was a British Liberal Democrat politician.
Hugh Emlyn Hooson,Baron Hooson,was a Welsh Liberal and then Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Montgomeryshire from 1962 until 1979.
Sir John Anthony Grant was a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 until his retirement in 1997. He was knighted for political and public service in the 1983 New Year Honours.
Roy Delville Roebuck was a British Labour Party politician and journalist. He was the Member of Parliament for Harrow East from 1966 to 1970.
