s – Journal of Liberal History

Samuel, Herbert

(1870 - 1963)

1st Viscount Samuel

Liberal MP for Cleveland 1902-18, Darwen 1929-35

Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party 1929-31, Leader of the Liberal Party 1931-35, Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords 1944-55

Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office 1905-09, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1909-10, 1915-16, Postmaster General 1910-14, 1915-16, President of the Local Goverment Board 1914-15, Home Secretary 1916, 1931-32

High Commissioner of Palestine 1920-25

Sarra, Gianni

Schondhardt-Bailey, Cheryl

Lecturer in Government

Scobie, Devin

Scott, Ros

(1957 - )

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

President of the Liberal Democrats 2008-10

Scott, Charles Prestwich

(1846 - 1932)

Liberal MP for Leigh 1895-1906

Editor of the Manchester Guardian 1872-1929

Searle, Professor Geoffrey

(1941 - )

Geoffrey Russell Searle is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of East Anglia. His published works include The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintigration 1886-1929 (1992) and Country Before Party: Coalition and the Idea of National Government in Modern Britain 1885-1987 (1995).

Seaward, Paul

Seear, Nancy

(1913 - 1997)

Baroness Seear of Paddington

Liberal leader in the House of Lords 1984-1988

Seelbach, Stefan

Seely, J.E.B.

(1868 - 1947)

1st Baron Mottistone

Conservative/Liberal MP for the Isle of Wight 1900-04, 1923-24, Liverpool Abercrombie 1906-Jan 1910, Ilkeston 1910-22

Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1908-11, Under-Secretary of State for War 1911-12, Secretary of State for War 1912-14, Under-Secretary of State for Air 1919, President of the Air Council 1919

Seldon, Anthony

Seldon, Arthur

(1916 - 2005)

Self, Bob

Sell, Geoffrey

College lecturer and member of the Liberal Democrat History Group executive

Shannon, Richard

Sharp, Alan

Sharpe, Iain

Shaw, Tommy

(1850 - 1937)

1st Baron Craigmyle

Liberal MP for Hawick Burghs 1892-1909

Solicitor General for Scotland 1894-95, Lord Advocate 1905-09

Shelley, Percy

Shenton, Caroline

Shepherd, John

Shiels, Robert

Shutt, David

(1942 - 2020)

Baron Shutt of Greetland

Long term Liberal and Liberal Democrat councillor on Calderdale Council from 1973. Created a life peer in 2000, David Shutt served as Liberal Democrat deputy chief whip from 2005 and as government deputy chief whip in the Lords from 2010 to 2012.

Simmonds, Sue

Simon, Ernest

(1879 - 1960)

1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe

Liberal MP for Manchester Withington 1923-24, 1929-31

Simon, Sir John

(1873 - 1954)

1st Viscount Simon

Liberal MP for Walthamstow 1906-18, Spen Valley 1922-31, Liberal National MP for Spen Valley 1931-40

Leader of the Liberal National Party 1931-40

Solicitor General 1910-13, Attorney General 1913-15, Home Secretary 1915-16, Foreign Secretary 1931-35, Home Secretary 1935-37, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1937-40 Lord Chancellor 1940-45

British politician and statesman and Leader of the Liberal National Party 1931-40

Simpson, Keith

(1949 - )

Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk 1997-2010, Broadland 2010-19

Sinclair, Sir Archibald

(1890 - 1970)

1st Viscount Thurso

Liberal MP for Caithness & Sutherland 1922-45

Liberal Chief Whip 1930-31, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party 1931-35, Leader of the Liberal Party 1935-45

Secretary of State for Scotland 1931-32, Secretary of State for Air 1940-45

Skidelsky, Robert

(1939 - )

Baron Skidelsky of Tilton

Slade, Adrian

Sloman, Peter

Smiles, Samuel

(1812 - 1904)

Smith, Sir Cyril (MP)

(1928 - 2010)

Smith, Jacqui

Smith, Dr Jeremy

Smith, Dr Julie

Teaching Fellow at the Centre of International Studies and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge

Smith, Harriet

Smith, Trevor

Smith, Adam

(1723 - 1790)

Smithson, John

Smulian, Mark

Solomos, John

Head of Sociology at City University

South, Nick

Southgate, Donald

(1924 - 2005)

Donald Southgate was a historian and academic. He taught at Exeter and Glasgow Universities, Rhodes University in South Africa and Queen’s College, Dundee. He specialised in nineteenth century political history and published several books on Liberal history including The Passing of the Whigs (1962) and The Most English Minister: the Policies and Politics of Palmerston […]

Spencer, John Poyntz

(1835 - 1910)

5th Earl Spencer

Whig MP for South Northamptonshire 1857

Liberal Leader in the House of Lords 1902-05

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1868-74, 1882-85, Lord President of the Council 1880-83, 1886, First Lord of the Admiralty 1892-95

Spencer, Herbert

Speyer, Sir Edgar

Stacey, Margaret

Stanley, Venetia

(1887 - 1948)

Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu was a British aristocrat and socialite best known for the many letters that Prime Minister H.H. Asquith wrote to her between 1910 and 1915.

Stanley, Edward Henry

(1823 - 1893)

15th Earl of Derby

Conservative MP for King's Lynn 1848-69

Secretary of State for the Colonies 1858-59, 1882-85, President of the Board of Control 1858, Secretary of State for India 1858-59, Foreign Secretary 1866-68, 1874-78