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• Ahmedullah, Muhammad
  Bangladeshi-British community heritage activist based in London.
• Ashton, Thomas, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde
  British industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Born into a wealthy family of cotton manufacturers in Manchester, Ashton was a Liberal MP for Hyde from 1885 to 1886 and for Luton from 1895 to 1911. Ashton supported the Buller statue campaign in its early stages by providing a cheque of £250 or 5,000 shillings (about £20,000 in 2024) to the shilling fund in November 1901. This was the largest single donation towards the Buller statue and made up roughly a fifth of the total memorial fund, which came to over 26,000 shillings (about £100,000 in 2024).
• Baldwin, James
  American writer and civil rights activist in the twentieth century, widely renowned for his literary works which spoke, although not exclusively, to the experience of Black Americans and queer people both within the United States and beyond.
• Butler, Vincent
  Scottish sculptor in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Cruikshank, George
  British caricaturist and book illustrator active in the nineteenth century. Cruikshank's life overlapped with contemporary political debates over the institution of slavery in the early nineteenth-century British Empire. Many of his works, such as the 'The New Union Club' (1819) and 'An Emancipated N****' (1833), were explicitly pro-slavery and racist in their depiction of Black people. In 1822, Cruikshank produced a number of caricatures satirising Richard Westmacott's colossal bronze statue of Achilles, intended as a tribute to the Duke of Wellington, which reflected many of the gendered anxieties around the nude male body in the Regency era. There are also traces of racialised depictions in these caricatures. 'Backside & Front View of the Ladies Fancy-man, Paddy Carey', for instance, depicts a woman racialised as black amidst a group of white onlookers on the right hand side.
• Dhondy, Farrukh
  Indian-British writer and activist based in London.
• Dresser, Madge
  British historian with research interests in the history of Atlantic Slavery, of ethnic minorities in Britain, slavery and memory, gender history and pubic history. She has worked for the University of West England and the University of Bristol, and as consultant for museums and public bodies such as the National Archives.
• Dunn, Albert Edward
  British politician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dunn was Mayor of Exeter (1900-1901) and Member of Parliament for Camborne (1906-1910). As Chairman of the Buller Memorial Committee, Dunn spearheaded the campaign to build a statue of Redvers Buller in Exeter from 1901 to 1905.
• Fortescue, Hugh, 4th Earl Fortescue
  British politician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fortescue was Member of Parliament for Tiverton (1881-1885) and Tavistock (1885-1892), as well as Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1904–1928).
• Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
  British Conservative politician
• Haque, Nurul
  Bangladeshi-British politician and community leader; first Bangladeshi councillor in the UK. Denied membership by the Labour Party, he contested elections as part of the People's Alliance of East London, and took his seat in Tower Hamlets Council in 1982 as an Independent member.
• Jerningham, Hubert
  British politician and colonial administrator in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jerningham was Governor of Mauritius from 1892 to 1897 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago from 1897 to 1900. His great-grandfather was Nathaniel Middleton (1750–1807), an East Indian Company civil servant, who married Ann Frances Morse (1758–1823), who was the mixed-race daughter of Jamaican slave-owner and attorney John Morse (died 1781).
• Lake, Cleo
  Lord Mayor of Bristol (2018-2019)
• Linscott, Thomas
  Mayor of Exeter (1905).
• Maltin, Michael
  Stroud clock restorer
• Mellish, Richard
  Jewellery maker
• Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
  British statesman, naval officer, and colonial administrator. Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India in 1947 and the first Governor-General of India from 1947 to 1948.
• Perry, Edwin Charles
  Mayor of Exeter (1904).
• Picton-Robinson, Ian
  British museum curator, based in Market Drayton in Shropshire.
• Qureshi, Murad
  British-Bangladeshi politician.
• Robbins, Nick
  British historian and heritage activist based in London.
• Rustat, Tobias
  Courtier to King Charles II and benefactor of the University of Cambridge. Rustat invested in the slave-trading Royal African Company and was a company Assistant in 1676, 1679 and 1680.
• Sahota, Kuldeep Singh
  British-Punjabi politician based in Telford, Shropshire.
• Sobers, Shawn
  British visual anthropologist, filmmaker, photographer and writer.
• Squire, Roger
  Former Joint Chief Executive of The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC).
• St Aubyn, John, 1st Baron St Levan
  British politician and peer. St Aubyn donated the Cornish granite for the plinth of the Buller statue. St Aubyn had a close relationship to Redvers Buller. The two men were brother-in-laws, as Buller was married to Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend (d. 1926) and St Aubyn was married to her sister Elizabeth Clementina Townshend (d. 1910). St Aubyn's son, John Townshend St Aubyn, 2nd Baron St Levan (1857-1940), had been the Aide-de-camp to General Sir Redvers Buller during the Suakin Expedition in Sudan in 1884.
• Stephenson, Paul
  British civil rights activist, especially for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol
• Thompson, Jake
  British resident of Shropshire.
• Warren, Allan
  English portrait photographer and actor.