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Arrowsmith, James Williams English printer and publisher in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arrowsmith was founder of the firm J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. as well a President of the Anchor Society in Bristol in the 1890s.
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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).
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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.
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Macrae, James Colonial administrator in India, governor of Madras for the British East India Company.
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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). -
Wills, William Henry, 1st Baron Winterstoke British tobacco businessman, politician, and philanthropist in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Wills family were a wealthy tobacco-importing family based in Bristol from the eighteenth century onwards. The family's firm, W. D. & H. O. Wills, was established by Henry O. Wills (William Henry's grandfather) in 1786. William Henry Wills took over the company and later served as chairman of the amalgamated Imperial Tobacco Company from 1901. The British tobacco industry relied heavily on raw material supplied overseas from the Americas, which was produced by enslaved labour in the British Caribbean until 1834 and the United States until 1865. The Wills legacy in relationship to transatlantic slavery and colonialism continues to attract critical scrutiny in the present. Students at Bristol University have campaigned to have the Wills Memorial Building renamed in light of these legacies, but the university made a decision in 2023 to retain the name. -
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).