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…

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…

Kenneth Bourne was an academic and historian. He taught at London, Colorado and California Universities and the London School of Economics. Many of his books concentrate on the nineteenth century including, The Foreign Policy of Victorian England (1970) and Palmerston: the Early Years (1982).

Dudley Ward Rhodes Bahlman was a historian and academic. He was James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and Public Affairs at Williams College, Massachusetts. His publications included The Moral Revolution of 1688 (1957) and edited a two-volume diary of Sir Edward Hamilton – secretary to W.E. Gladstone (1994).