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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).

Edwardes, Herbert Benjamin

British colonial administrator and soldier in India in the nineteenth century.

Landon, Perceval

British writer, traveller, and journalist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Macrae, James

Colonial administrator in India, governor of Madras for the British East India Company.

Stanhope, Philip Henry

British antiquarian and Tory politician in the nineteenth century. His father, Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope (1781-1855) was awarded compensation for enslaved people in Jamaica as a trustee (with Abel Smith) of a marriage settlement between Lt Col John F. Crewe and Harriet Smith.

Vernon, Robert

British Whig and then Liberal politician in the nineteenth century. Vernon was briefly Secretary at War (1852) and President of the Board of Control (1855-1858).

Windsor-Clive, Robert, 1st Earl of Plymouth

British aristocrat, landowner, Conservative politician, and descendant of Robert Clive.

Wood, Charles

British politician in the nineteenth century. Wood was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1846-1852) during the Irish Famine, as well as President of the Board of Control (1852-1855), First Lord of the Admiralty (1855-1858), and Secretary of State for India (1859-1866).