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Mabane, William

(1895 - 1969)

1st Baron Mabane

Liberal National MP for Huddersfield 1931-45

Minister for Home Security 1939-40, Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office 1940-42, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food 1942-45, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs 1945

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

(1800 - 1859)

1st Baron Macaulay

Whig MP for Calne 1830-32, Leeds 1832-34, Edinburgh 1839-47, 1852-56

Secretary to the Board of Control 1832-33, Secretary at War 1839-41, Paymaster General 1846-48

Macdonald, Alexander

(1821 - 1881)

Liberal-Labour MP for Stafford 1874-81

President of the Miners Union 1863-81, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress 1872-74

Macdonald, Archie

(1904 - 1983)

Liberal MP for Roxburgh & Selkirk 1950-51

Denis Mack Smith was a historian and academic. He taught at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He specialised in the history of Italy and was probably the leading historian in his field in the second half of the twentieth century. Of his works, a number deal with the life and politics of leading liberals involved in the […]

Mackie, George

(1919 - 2015)

Baron Mackie of Benshie

Liberal MP for Caithness and Sutherland 1964-66

Chairman of the Scottish Liberal Party 1965-70, President of the Scottish Liberal Party 1983-88

Maclean, Sir Donald

(1864 - 1932)

Liberal MP for Bath 1906-January 1910, Peebles & Selkirk December 1910-18, Peebles & Southern Midlothian 1918-22, North Cornwall 1929-32

President of the Board of Education 1931-32

Maclennan, Robert

(1936 - 2020)

Baron Maclennan of Rogart

Labour MP for Caithness and Sutherland 1966-81, SDP MP for Caithness and Sutherland 1981-1988, Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness and Sutherland 1988-97, Caithness Sutherland & Easter Ross 1997-2001

Leader of the SDP 1987-88

MacMillan, Margaret

(1943 - )

Provost of the University of Trinity College 2002-07, Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford 2007-17

BBC Reith Lecturer 2018

Macpherson, Niall

(1908 - 1987)

1st Baron Drumalbyn

Liberal National MP for Dumfriesshire 1945-63

Macron, Emmanuel

President of France

Maddock, Diana

(1945 - 2020)

Baroness Maddock of Christchurch

Liberal Democrat MP for Christchurch 1993-97

President of the Liberal Democrats 1998-2000

Madsen, Tomas Bech

Maharaj, Akaash

National Policy Chair

Maloney, John

Mander, Sir Geoffrey

(1882 - 1962)

Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East 1929-45

Mander, Nicholas

Marks, Jonathan

Marquand, Professor David

(1934 - )

Labour MP for Ashfield 1966-77

Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford 1996-2002

Marsden, Lorna

Marsh, Alex

Marsh, Professor Peter

Honorary Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History , Professor of International Relations

Marshall, Paul

Co-editor of the Orange Book

Marx, Karl

(1818 - 1883)

Philosopher from Germany, a political economist and a socialist revolutionary

Masterman, Charles

(1873 - 1927)

Liberal MP for West Ham North 1906-11, Bethnal Green South West 1911-14, Manchester Rusholme 1923-24

Chair National League of Young Liberals 1906-07

Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1912-14, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1914-15

Matikkala, Mira

Matthew, Professor Henry

Matthews, Rachel

Mayhew, Christopher

(1915 - 1997)

Baron Mayhew of Wimbledon

Labour MP for South Norfolk 1945-50, Woolwich East (Liberal from July 1974) 1951-October 1974

Mazzini, Giuseppe

McCabe, Helen

McDonald, Dr Terry

Senior Lecturer in Politics

McElroy, Albert

McFadden, Pat

(1965 - )

Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East 2005-

McGowan, Jim

McGuinness, Justine

McKenna, Reginald

(1863 - 1943)

Liberal MP for North Monmouthshire 1895-1918

Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1905-07, President of the Board of Education 1907-08, First Lord of the Admiralty 1908-11, Home Secretary 1911-15, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915-16

Chairman of the Midland Bank 1919-43

McKibbin, Ross

McKie, David

McKinstry, Leo

McLaren, Duncan

(1800 - 1886)

Liberal MP for Edinburgh 1865-81

McManus, Michael

Author

McNally, Tom

(1943 - )

Baron McNally of Blackpool

Labour/SDP MP for Stockport South 1979-83

Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords 2004-13

Minister of State for Justice 2010-13, Deputy Leader of the House of Lords 2010-13

Meadowcroft, Michael

(1942 - )

Liberal MP for Leeds West 1983-87

Meadowcroft, John

Medlicott, Sir Frank

(1903 - 1972)

National Liberal MP for East Norfolk 1939-47, Conservative and National Liberal MP for East Norfolk 1947-50, Central Norfolk 1950-59

Treasurer of the Liberal Party 1969-72

Membery, York

Michie, Ray

(1934 - 2008)

Baroness Michie of Gallanach

Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP for Argyll and Bute 1987-2001

Mill, John Stuart

(1806 - 1873)

Liberal MP for Westminster 1865-68

Millsted, Ian

Millum, Danny

Milton, John

(1608 - 1674)

English poet

Mitchell, Peter

Mitchell, Patrick

Mole, Stuart

Molteno, Percy

(1861 - 1937)

Liberal MP for Dumfriesshire 1906-18

Molyneux, William

(1835 - 1897)

4th Earl of Sefton

Mond, Sir Alfred

(1868 - 1930)

1st Baron Melchett

Liberal/Coalition Liberal MP for Chester 1906-10, Swansea 1910-18, Swansea West 1918-23, Carmarthen 1924-28 (Conservative from 1926)

First Commissioner of Works 1916-21, Minister of Health 1921-22

Montagu, Edwin

(1879 - 1924)

Liberal MP for Chesterton 1906-18, Cambridgeshire 1918-22

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915, 1916, Minister of Munitions 1916, Secretary of State for India 1917-22

Montague, C. E.

Moore, James R.

Moore, Michael

(1965 - )

Liberal Democrat MP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 1997-2005, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 2005-15

Secretary of State for Scotland 2010-13

Moore, Richard

Moran, Layla (MP)

Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017

Moreing, Algernon

(1889 - 1974)

Coalition Liberal/Liberal MP for Buckrose 1918-22, Camborne 1922-23, Constitutionalist/Conservative MP for Camborne 1924-29

Morel, Edmund

(1873 - 1924)

Labour MP for Dundee 1922-24

Morgan, Simon

Morgan, Kenneth

(1934 - )

Baron Morgan

Kenneth Owen Morgan is a Welsh historian and author and is a regular speaker at Liberal History Group events. He taught at the University of Wales 1958-66 and was a fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford 1966-89, later becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales 1989-95. His may works include David Lloyd George: Welsh Radical as […]