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.

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).