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Lord Lloyd of Berwick, outstanding jurist who led the inquiry into Gulf War syndrome
In the Lords he commanded respect for his mastery of terrorism legislation and for championing the basic principles of the Rule of Law
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David Hill, Labour spin doctor who steadied the ship after Alastair Campbell resigned
Intelligent, funny, reassuring and an excellent briefer, he earned journalists’ respect as a reliable source rather than a master of spin
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Sir John Nott, radical Tory individualist and Defence Secretary during the Falklands War
He was best known for storming out of a TV studio after Robin Day referred to him as ‘a transient here-today-and-gone-tomorrow politician’
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Sir Henry Keswick, head of Jardine Matheson and owner of The Spectator during a golden era
As a young taipan in 1970s Hong Kong, Henry Keswick ran his business with a commanding style which won the respect of Chinese entrepreneurs
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Sir Geoffrey Pattie, Conservative MP who championed the RAF and called for terrorists to be executed
As RAF minister he proposed a plan to develop the capability to intervene against Soviet threats to vital Western interests outside Europe
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Ethel Kennedy, widow of the assassinated Bobby Kennedy who stoically raised their 11 children alone
The large family’s life was ‘organised bedlam’, with 16 dogs, a sea lion named Sandy, exotic reptiles in the basement and a miniature horse
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Richard Hickmet, dogged Thatcherite MP for Scunthorpe who later lost Ian Gow’s seat to the Lib Dems
After Gow’s assassination by the IRA, Hickmet felt sure of being returned by Eastbourne. His shock defeat put the skids under Mrs Thatcher
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Lord Ouseley, leader in the battle against racism who chaired the Kick It Out campaign in football
He was taunted and beaten up as a teenager, but he grew up determined to work to overcome racial prejudice rather than get his own back
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Michael Ancram, Tory grandee who as Northern Ireland minister met republican politicians face-to-face
Ancram was a member of the British ski team and a folk singer who impersonated Buddy Holly for Malcolm Rifkind’s 50th birthday party
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Jacques de Groote, World Bank and IMF executive whose career was overshadowed by allegations of fraud
In 1990 it was reported that he had taken advantage of his position in Washington to serve the interests of President Mobutu of Zaire
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Hassan Nasrallah, militant cleric who rose to become the head of Hezbollah
Islam ‘is a divine message designed for humanity,’ he said. ‘It can answer any question man might ask concerning his life’
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Sir George Radda, pioneer of MRI in medicine who fled the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956
His use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy paved the way for the worldwide use of MRI scanning in human disease diagnosis
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Peter Jay, ‘the cleverest young man in England’ who later came unstuck as Ambassador to Washington
There were cries of nepotism when the young journalist, who happened to be the prime minister’s son-in-law, bagged the top job in diplomacy
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Song Binbin, Red Guard whose beating to death of a teacher heralded Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Song’s public apology in 2014 for her involvement in the killing provoked scorn and calls for a national reckoning for the horror of 1966-76
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The Right Rev Mark Santer, Birmingham Bishop and vocal critic of the Thatcher government
The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, forwarded Santer’s name as bishop to the Queen, unaware of how radical his views really were
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Alberto Fujimori, politician who restored order to Peru but was seen by many as a tyrant and thug
He defeated the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru terrorists and brought down runaway inflation but was later convicted of human-rights abuses
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Edward B Johnson, the other CIA officer who pulled off the Argo rescue of US diplomats from Iran
He was left out of the Ben Affleck film because only his code-name ‘Julio’ was known – but the CIA identified him in a podcast last year
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Jeffrey Titford, retired undertaker who became leader of Ukip and a father figure to Nigel Farage
On the eve of the Brexit vote he said of Farage: ‘He has more ideas before lunch than many people have in 12 months. He is a ball of fire’
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Dave Wetzel, star of the 1980s London Left noted for backing the GLC’s Fares Fair drive
Wetzel ended letters ‘Yours in Socialism’ and, arrested for travelling without paying the full fare, turned up at court dressed as a gorilla
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Lady Saltoun, member of the Royal family with a hereditary peerage who enlivened the House of Lords
She called the removal of the hereditaries ‘an upmarket version of the compulsion to break things which seizes idle and unemployed youths’
