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Douglas Richard Hurd

British diplomat

William Ewart Gladstone

prime minister of United Kingdom

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax

British statesman

Sir Roger Casement

British politician

James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

British statesman

Sir Stafford Cripps

British statesman

Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet

British statesman

Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Baron Vansittart

British diplomat and author

Sir Harold Nicolson

British diplomat and author

Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford

British diplomat

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton

British diplomat and poet

Donald Maclean

British diplomat and spy

George Blake

British diplomat and Soviet spy

Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson

British statesman

Guy Burgess

British diplomat and spy

L.S. Amery

British politician

Sir Thomas Francis Wade

British diplomat

Hugh Foot

British diplomat

Thomas Edward Bowdich

British science writer

Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet

British diplomat