Stowe (1871–1940) Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham (1872–1950), Attorney General, 1922–1924, 1924–1928, Lord Chancellor, 1928–1929, 1935–1938, and Secretary of State for War, 1931–1935 Brigadier General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955), Governor of South Australia, 1928–1934, and New South Wales, 1935–1936, Governor-General of Australia, 1936–1944, and Sudan Campaign Victoria Cross Frederick Roberts (1872–1899), Boer War Victoria Cross Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet (1872–1942), inventor of the Ross Rifle Maurice Baring (1874–1945), poet, writer and journalist Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957), Governor-General of South Africa, 1923–1931, and Canada, 1940–1946 Sir George Russell Clerk (1874–1951), British Ambassador to France, 1934–1937 Geoffrey Dawson (1874–1944), Editor, The Times, 1912–1919, 1923–1941 Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore (1875–1948), Chairman of Committees, House of Lords, 1911–1931 Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875–1947), Professor of Physics, Imperial College, London, 1908–1919 Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931), MP for Eddisbury, 1906–1910, Governor of Victoria, 1914–1920, and Chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1925–1928 Sir Trevor Bigham (1876–1954), Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1914–1931, and Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1931–1935 Charles Burnell (1876–1969), oarsman Brigadier-General John Campbell (1876–1944), First World War Victoria Cross Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golfer and sportswriter Edward Dent (1876–1957), Professor of Music, University of Cambridge, 1926–1941, and musicologist Arnold Ward (1876–1950) journalist, solicitor, MP Arthur Hollins (1876–1938), cricketer and chairman of Preston North End F.C. HRH Prince Aga Khan III (1877–1957), 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims Bernard Bosanquet (1877–1936), cricketer Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), literary critic and writer Roger Quilter (1877–1953), composer Charles Rolls (1877–1910), managing director, Rolls-Royce, 1906–1910, engineer, aviator, cyclist, racing driver, land speed record holder and first British air accident fatality Hubert Carr-Gomm (1877–1939), Liberal MP for Rotherhithe, 1906–18 and assistant secretary to Henry Campbell-Bannerman George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877–1955), Chairman, BBC, 1927–1930, Governor-General of South Africa, 1931–1937, and Lord Chamberlain, 1938–1952 Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), writer Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879–1953), industrialist, horticulturalist and politician Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952), Proprietor, The Observer, 1911–1945, Lord Mayor of Plymouth, 1939–1944, and politician Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside (1879–1958), Speaker of the House of Commons, 1943–1951 Sir Gerald Kelly (1879–1972), portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy, 1949–1954 George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (1879–1941), Governor of Bombay, 1918–1923, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1925–1929, and Colonial Secretary, 1940–1941 1880s George Boyd-Rochfort