Who's
Who: United Kingdom
Updated - Saturday, 5 June, 2004
This page of the Who's Who section of the site lists biographical entries by country - in this case, the United Kingdom.
Here you'll find details on the life and work of the two British wartime Prime Ministers, Asquith and Lloyd George. There are also biographies of the many British commanders in the field in addition to entries for a wide variety of other personalities.
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Edward Aitken, General |
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Sir
William Maxwell Aitken, Minister of
Information |
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Sir
Edwin Alderson, General |
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Sir
Edmund Allenby, Commander-in-Chief,
Palestine |
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Edward
Ashmore, London Air Defence
Commander |
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Herbert
Henry Asquith, Prime Minister |
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Sir
William Babtie, Director of
Medical Supplies |
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Sir
Reginald Bacon, Commander,
Dover Patrol |
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Bruce
Bairnsfather, Cartoonist |
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Sir
Herbert Baker, War Graves
Architect |
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Arthur
Balfour, Foreign Secretary |
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Albert
Ball, Fighter Pilot |
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Prince
Louis of Battenberg, First Sea Lord |
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Sir
David Beatty, Commander-in-Chief,
Grand Fleet |
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Lord
Beaverbrook, Minister of
Information |
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Edward
Bingham, Naval Commander |
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Sir
Noel Birch, Chief Naval Adviser |
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Sir
William Birdwood, General |
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Robert
Blackburn, Aircraft Designer |
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Sir
Reginald Blomfield, Architect of
Menin Gate |
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Sir
Louis Jean Bols, General |
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Andrew
Bonar Law, Conservative Leader |
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Sir
Muirhead Bone, War Artist |
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Walter
Braithwaite, General |
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Fenner
Brockway, Home Secretary |
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Lord
Bryce, Author, Bryce Report |
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John
Buchan, Director of Information |
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Edward
Bulfin, General |
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George
Butterworth, Composer/Collector |
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Sir
Julian Byng, General |
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Sir
George Callaghan,
Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet |
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Sir
Sackville Carden, Admiral |
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Alfred
Carpenter, Captain |
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Sir
Edward Carson, Leader, UVF |
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Earl
of Cavan, Commander-in-Chief, Italy |
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Edith
Cavell, Nurse |
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John
Charteris, General |
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Sir
Philip Chetwode, Field Marshal |
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Sir
Winston Churchill, First Lord of
the Admiralty |
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Tubby
Clayton, Founder of 'Toc H' |
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Sir
Alexander Cobbe, General |
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Sir
John Cowans,
Quartermaster-General |
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Sir
Christopher Cradock, Rear-Admiral |
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Sir
Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle,
General |
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Lord
Derby, Minister of War |
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Sir
John de Robeck, Admiral |
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Sir
Charles Dobell, General |
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Lionel
Dunsterville, General |
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Sir
James Edmonds, Official War
Historian |
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Edward
Evans, Captain |
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Sir
James Alfred Ewing, Head of
Room 40 |
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Admiral
John Fisher, First Sea Lord |
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Sir
John French, Commander-in-Chief,
BEF |
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Bernard
Freyberg, General |
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Philip
Fullard, Fighter Pilot |
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John
Fuller, Tank Strategist |
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Sir
Auckland Geddes, Minister of
National Service |
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Sir
Eric Geddes, First Lord of the
Admiralty |
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King
George V, Monarch |
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Sir
Philip Gibbs, Journalist |
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Sir
Alexander Godley, General |
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William
Goodenough, Admiral |
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George
Gorringe, General |
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Sir
Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary |
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Sir
Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief,
BEF |
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Richard
Haking, General |
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Lord
Haldane, Lord Chancellor |
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Sir
William Hall, Director of Naval
Intelligence |
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Sir
Lionel Halsey, Fourth Sea Lord |
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Sir
Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean |
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Sir
Alexander Hamilton Gordon, General |
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Maurice
Hankey, Secretary of War Cabinet |
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Charles
Harington, Deputy Chief of Imperial
General Staff |
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Evelina
Haverfield, Suffragette/WRAC
Commandant |
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Lanoe
Hawker, Fighter Pilot |
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Hesketh
Hesketh-Prichard, Sniping
Expert |
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Norman
Holbrook, Naval Commander |
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Sir
Horace Hood, Admiral |
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Sir
Henry Horne, General |
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Archibald
Hunter, General |
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Sir
Aylmer Hunter-Weston, General |
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Elsie
Inglis, Suffragette/Medical
Pioneer |
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Sir
Henry Jackson, First Sea Lord |
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Sir
John Jellicoe, First Sea Lord |
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Alan
Jerrard, Fighter Pilot |
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Hugh
Jeudwine, General |
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Sir
Roger Keyes, Admiral |
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Sir
Launcelot Kiggell, Chief of
Staff to Douglas Haig |
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Sir
Percival Lake, General |
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Frederick
Lambart, General |
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Sir
Harry Lauder, Musician |
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T.E.
Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia' |
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William
Leefe-Robinson, Fighter Pilot |
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Percy
Wyndham Lewis, Artist |
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David
Lloyd George, Prime Minister |
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Sir
Edwin Lutyens, War Graves Architect |
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Sir
George MacDonogh, Director of
Military Intelligence |
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Geoffrey
Malins, Official Photographer |
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Edward
Mannock, Fighter Pilot |
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Sir
William Marshall,
Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia |
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Charles
Masterman, Head of War Propaganda |
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Sir
Frederick Maude,
Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia |
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Sir
Frederick Maurice, General |
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Sir
Hiram Maxim, Inventor of Machine
Gun |
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Sir
Ivor Maxse, General |
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Sir
John Maxwell, General |
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James
McCudden, Fighter Pilot |
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John
Benjamin McDowell, Official
Photographer |
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Reginald
McKenna, Home Secretary |
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Sir
William Mills, Inventor of
Mills Bomb |
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Sir
Berkeley Milne, Admiral |
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Sir
George Milne, Field Marshal |
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Lord
Alfred Milner, Minister of War |
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Sir
Charles Monro,
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean |
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Thomas
Mottershead, Fighter Pilot |
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Sir
Archibald Murray,
Commander-in-Chief, Palestine |
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Paul
Nash, War Artist |
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Christopher
Nevinson, War Artist |
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Henry
Nevinson, Journalist |
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Sir
John Nixon, Commander-in-Chief,
Mesopotamia |
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Sir
John Norton-Griffiths, Mining
Liaison Officer |
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Ivor
Novello, Composer and
Playwright |
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Sir
William Orpen, Artist |
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Sir
William Pakenham, Admiral |
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Lord
Plumer, Field Marshal |
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Sir
Henry Rawlinson, General |
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Charles
Repington, Journalist |
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William
Rhodes-Moorhouse, Fighter Pilot |
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Arthur
Rhys Davids, Fighter Pilot |
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Sir
William Robertson, Chief of
Imperial General Staff |
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Flora
Sandes, Nurse/Serbian Soldier |
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Robert
Smith-Barry, Aviation Pioneer |
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Sir
Horace Smith-Dorrien, General |
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Sir
Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, General |
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Wilfred
Stokes, Inventor of Stokes Mortar |
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William
Stones, Executed at Dawn |
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Sir
Frederick Stopford, General |
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Sir
Frederick Sturdee, Admiral |
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Sir
Ernest Swinton, General |
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Bert
Thomas, Artist |
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Christopher
Thomson, Military Attaché to
Romania |
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Sir
Charles Townshend, General |
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Arnold
Toynbee, Historian |
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Hugh
Trenchard, Chief of Air Staff |
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Sir
Ernest Troubridge, Admiral |
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Sir
Fabian Ware, Founder, CWGC |
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Rosslyn
Wemyss, First Sea Lord |
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Henry
Woollett, Fighter Pilot |
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A "toffee apple" was a large German trench mortar, resembling a large toffee apple. |
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