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.
Hazel Osborne Byford,Baroness Byford,is a retired member of the House of Lords,where she served as Opposition Parliamentary Spokesman for Food,Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007. She sat as a Conservative.
Peter Spencer Bowness,Baron Bowness,is a British politician,solicitor,and life peer. Since 1996,he has been a member of the House of Lords.
Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot,22nd Earl of Shrewsbury,22nd Earl of Waterford,7th Earl Talbot,,styled Viscount Ingestre until 1980,is an English nobleman and the Lord High Steward of Ireland. He is the premier earl in the Peerage of England as the Earl of Shrewsbury,and in the Peerage of Ireland as the Earl of Waterford (1446). He also holds the titles of Earl Talbot and Baron Talbot.
Samuel George Armstrong Vestey,3rd Baron Vestey,,was a British peer,landowner,and businessman. He served as Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth II from 1999 to 2018. Lord Vestey was part of the family dynasty that founded and still runs the Vestey Holdings multinational corporation.
Douglas Hewitt Hacking,1st Baron Hacking was a British Conservative politician.
Jeremy Hugh Beecham,Baron Beecham is a British Labour politician and a senior figure in English local government. He was leader of Newcastle City Council and the first Chairman of the Local Government Association. He was the elected Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
Sir Eric Dancer is a British businessman and formerly Lord-Lieutenant of Devon.
Ernest Henry Lamb,1st Baron Rochester,CMG was a British Liberal and National Labour politician who served as Paymaster General from 1931 to 1935 in the National Government of Ramsay MacDonald.
Anthony Nicholas George Duckworth-Chad,of Pynkney Hall,in Tattersett near King's Lynn,Norfolk,England,is a landowner,City of London business man,and a senior county officer for Norfolk.
George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore,3rd Baron Harlech,,was a British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Sir Kenneth Aphunezi Olisa is a British businessman and philanthropist. He is the first mixed heritage Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London. He founded and led the AIM-listed technology merchant bank Interregnum and now leads Restoration Partners. Ken Olisa is Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and has served and serves on several boards of philanthropic,educational and regulator organisations. Sir Kenneth with his wife endowed the Olisa Library at Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge.
Sir David William Brewer was a British marine insurance broker who served as Lord Mayor of London (2005/06) and Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London to Elizabeth II (2008–15).
Sir David Hugh Wootton is an English lawyer and politician. He was the 684th Lord Mayor of London,from 2011 to 2012,and is was Alderman of the Ward of Langbourn until 2nd November 2024,when he retired from the Court of Aldermen. .
Sir Michael Roger Gifford KStJ KNO was a British banker in London who served as the 685th Lord Mayor of London from 2012 to 2013.
Sir Herbert William Massie,,known as Bert Massie,was a British disability rights campaigner. He served as Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission from 2000 to 2007,and was a founding Commissioner of its successor the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Ralph John Assheton,2nd Baron Clitheroe,DL,is an English aristocrat,businessman and public official,and a former member of the House of Lords.
Sir Alan Colin Drake Yarrow,FCSI was Lord Mayor of London 2014–15. He is an investment banker,who has served as Chairman of the Chartered Institute for Securities &Investment (CISI) since 2009.
The February 1974 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 2 April 1974 following the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament in preparation for a general election.
The League of Mercy was a British foundation established in 1899 by Royal Charter of Queen Victoria. The goal of the organisation was to recruit a large number of volunteers to aid the sick and suffering at charity hospitals. It was disbanded at the establishment of the National Health Service in 1947,with its royal charter subsequently surrendered.
- Life Peer as Baron Lingfield,of Lingfield,in the County of Surrey (created 17 December 2010)
- Knight Bachelor (1993)
- Knight of Justice,Order of St John (1985) [11] 
- Commander,pro Merito Melitensi (1987)
