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