WHelen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury,, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and she was known as Lady Violet, as a courtesy title, from her father's elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Later she became active in Liberal politics herself, and was a leading opponent of appeasement. She stood for Parliament and became a life peer.
WFrank Beswick, Baron Beswick, was a British Labour Co-operative politician.
WWilliam Reid Blyton, Baron Blyton was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton-le-Spring in the County of Durham from 1945 to 1964.
WGeneral Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, Baron Bourne, was a British Army officer.
WBertram Vivian Bowden, Baron Bowden was an English scientist and educationist, particularly associated with the development of UMIST as a successful university.
WArchibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway, was a British socialist politician, humanist campaigner and anti-war activist.
WBarbara Muriel Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, was a British Conservative politician.
WWilfred Banks Duncan Brown, Baron Brown PC MBE, was the chairman and the managing director of Glacier Metal Company (1939–1965), author of several books and articles on management and labour issues, university administrator, and United Kingdom's Minister of State at the Board of Trade (1965–1970).
WCharles Frank Byers, Baron Byers, was a British Liberal Party politician who later became a life peer and Privy Councillor.
WHugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last governor of British Cyprus.
WAlun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, was a British Army officer, a British politician and a historian.
WHarold Francis Collison, Baron Collison, CBE, was a British trade unionist.
WViscount Dilhorne, of Greens Norton in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 7 December 1964 for the lawyer, Conservative politician and former Lord Chancellor, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Baron Dilhorne. He had already succeeded his father as fourth Baronet of Dilhorne and been created Baron Dilhorne, of Towcester in the County of Northampton on 17 July 1962, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
WViscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 January 1964 for the Conservative politician David Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles. He had already been created Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, on 1 August 1962. As of 2017 the titles are held by his son, the second Viscount, who succeeded in 1999. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a Conservative. His wife Diana Eccles was created a life peer as Baroness Eccles of Moulton, of Moulton in the County of North Yorkshire, on 10 May 1990, making the couple an unusual husband and wife pair both sitting in the House of Lords. Lady Eccles of Moulton also sits on the Conservative benches.
WEvelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley DL was a British Conservative Party politician.
WFrederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Baron Erroll of Kilmun, TD, PC was a British Conservative politician.
WAnna Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell was a British Labour Party politician and the wife of Hugh Gaitskell, who led the Labour Party in 1955–1963.
WGerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, was a British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970 and during that time he introduced into British law as many reforms as any Lord Chancellor had done before or since. In that position he embarked on a great programme of reform, most importantly setting up the Law Commission in 1965.
WBaron Grimston of Westbury, of Westbury in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the Conservative politician and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Robert Grimston, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet in 1952. Grimston was the son of Reverend Canon the Hon. Robert Grimston, third son of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam. As of 2017 the titles are held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 2003.
WCharles Rider Hobson, Baron Hobson was a British Labour politician and life peer.
WAnthony Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd was a British politician and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Newbury.
WBaron Inglewood, of Hutton in the Forest in the County of Cumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
WKeith Anderson Hope Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, KCB was a British academic and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
WFrances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, Baroness Northchurch,, styled Lady Davidson between 1935 and 1937 and as Viscountess Davidson between 1937 and 1985, was a British Conservative Party politician.
WHendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott, known as Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet, from 1959 to 1964, was a British Conservative Party politician.
WDennis Forwood Vosper, Baron Runcorn TD PC was a British Conservative Party politician.
WBaron St Helens is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of Ireland and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
WSamuel Segal, Baron Segal, MRCS, LRCP, was a British doctor and Labour Party politician who became Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
WBaron Sherfield, of Sherfield-on-Loddon in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the diplomat Sir Roger Makins. He had previously served as British Ambassador to the United States. His eldest son, the second Baron, was a leading expert on national security and defence issues. As of 2010 the title is held by the latter's younger brother, the third Baron, who succeeded in 2006.
WCharles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for The Two Cultures, a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".
WEdwin Savory Herbert, Baron Tangley, KBE was a British solicitor and mountaineer.
WDonald William Wade, Baron Wade, DL was a British solicitor who became a Liberal Party Member of Parliament. Wade's time in Parliament coincided with the time the Liberals were at their lowest ebb but his job as Chief Whip kept the party operating until times were better; however, his own seat was dependent on a local pact with the Conservatives and when it broke down, he was defeated. He was then elevated to the House of Lords where he became an active Peer.
WHarold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation between 1955 and 1959 and a cabinet member as Minister of Defence between 1959 and 1962, when he was sacked in the Night of the Long Knives. In 1964 he was ennobled as Viscount Watkinson. Wrote a book (scarce) called "The Mountain". 76 pages, Softbound, A4 size. Script and Drawings by Viscount Watkinson P.C., C.H. Published by Harold Watkinson, Tyma House, Bosham, West Sussex, 1987. ISBN 0 9513021 0 8 Distributed by Cordee. In the Introduction, says "As I said in my book 'TURNING POINTS'", so has written another book.
WRichard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, was a British judge. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1964 to 1982.