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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2009
(These notes do not normally cover careers after 1936. Where an actor is very well-known or has a bibliography in the text, he is omitted from this Appendix.)
Acland, Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Dyke (62). ed. Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. 1908–16 Junior office. MP (Lib) Richmond 1906–10, Camborne 1910–22, Tiverton 1923 and N. Cornwall 1932–.
Acland, Richard Dyke (30). ed. Rugby and Balliol. Son of Sir Francis Acland. MP (Lib) Barnstaple 1935–.
Addison, Christopher (67). ed. Trinity College, Harrogate and St Bartholomew's Hospital. ex-Professor Anatomy. MP (Lib) 1910–22. MP (Lab) Swindon 1929–31 and 1934–5. 1914–16 junior minister. 1916–21 Minister of Munitions, etc. 1929–31 Parliamentary Secretary, then Minister of Agriculture.
Aga Khan, The (59). Head of Ismaili Mahometans. President of League of Nations Assembly 1937. Representative of Indian government at international conferences.
Alexander, Albert Victor (51). Elementary School and Technical Classes. Baptist lay preacher. Ex-employee of Somerset Education Committee. Captain in army in World War. Secretary of Parliamentary Committee of Co-operative Congress. MP (Co-op) Hillsborough, Sheffield 1922–31 and 1935–. Told off by Keyes for using Christian names.
Allen of Hurtwood, Reginald Clifford Allen, 1st Baron (47). ed. Berkhamstead, Bristol and Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1911–15 Daily Citizen 1922–6 Chairman of ILP. 1921–6 Chairman of New Leader War-time Conscientious Objector. A MacDonald peer.
Anderson, Sir John (54). ed. George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Edinburgh and Leipzig universities. 1905–32 Civil Servant (inc. Permanent Under-Secretary Home Office). 1932–37 Governor of Bengal. Offered High Commissionership in Palestine in 1937.
Angell, Sir Norman (62). ed. France and Geneva. 1898– Journalist and publicist. Author of The Great Illusion (1908) and many other political books. 1929–31 MP (Lab) North Bradford. 1933, Nobel Peace Prize. Ex-Liberal. A MacDonald knighthood.
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