List of British conservatives

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British conservatism refers to a political and philosophical tradition in the United Kingdom that emphasizes the preservation of established institutions,[1] the rule of law, gradual societal change, traditionalism[2] British Unionism,[3] loyalism, euroscepticism,[4] a free market economy,[5] individualism[6] and a strong belief in personal responsibility.

Along with liberalism and socialism, it is one of the major political ideologies in the UK.

Entries on the list must have achieved notability after the writing of Reflections on the Revolution in France which is often seen as the starting point of conservatism.[7]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

People

Intellectuals, philosophers and historians

Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
Edmund Burke 1729–1797 Philosopher and statesman, generally understood as part of a liberal tradition,[8] but sometimes associated with a 20th-century movement called modern conservatism [9][10][11]
Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881 Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher Philosophy of Thomas Carlyle
Friedrich Hayek 1899–1992 Political philosopher and economist [12][13][14][15]
Christopher Dawson 1889–1970 Catholic historian and independent scholar [16]
Michael Joseph Oakeshott 1901-1990 Philosopher and political theorist [17]
Maurice Cowling 1926–2005 British historian [18]
Roger Scruton 1944–2020 Philosopher, writer, and social critic [19]
Niall Ferguson 1964 - Scottish–American historian [20]

Politicians and office holders

The Roaring Lion, 1941
Margaret Thatcher in 1995
Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
Prime Minister Robert Peel 1788–1850 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1834 to 1835 and later from 1841 to 1846 [21]
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli 1804–1881 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1874 to 1880 [22]
Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1874–1965 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and later from 1951 to 1955 [23]
Prime Minister Edward Heath 1916-2005 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 [24]
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 [5]
Prime Minister John Major 1943 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997 [25]
Prime Minister Theresa May 1956 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019 [26][27]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson 1964 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022 [28][29]
Prime Minister David Cameron 1966 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 [30][31]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 1980 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024 [32]

Media personalities, journalists, broadcasters, publishers, editors, radio hosts, columnists and bloggers

Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
Peregrine Worsthorne 1923-2020 British journalist, writer, and broadcaster [33]
Auberon Waugh 1939-2001 British journalist and novelist [34]
Andrew Neil 1949 - Scottish journalist, chairman and broadcaster [35]
Peter Hitchens 1951 - Conservative author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator
Charles Moore 1956 - British journalist and editor
Allison Pearson 1960 - British columnist and author
Tony Gallagher 1963 - British newspaper journalist and editor [36]
Piers Morgan 1965 - Broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality [37]
Tim Davie 1967 - British media executive [38]
Julia Hartley-Brewer 1968 - British radio presenter, political journalist and newspaper columnist [39][40]
Fraser Nelson 1973 - Political journalist and editor [41]
Isabel Oakeshott 1974 or 1975 - British political journalist [42]
Camilla Tominey 1978 - Journalist, broadcaster and news presenter [43][44]
Douglas Murray 1979 - Author, columnist, editor and political commentator

Painters, printmakers, fine-art photographers, visual artists and sculptors

Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
John Constable 1776–1837 English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition [45]
Samuel Palmer 1805–1881 British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker [46]
George Richmond 1809–1896 Painter, portraitist and member of The Ancients [47]
Wyndham Lewis 1882–1957 Painter, art critic and co-founder of the Vorticist movement [48]
L. S. Lowry 1887–1976 Mancunian painter known for his naïve artworks [49][50]
Francis Bacon 1909–1992 Irish-born British figurative painter [51][52]
Gilbert & George 1942 -

1943 -

Collaborative performance art duo [53][54][55]
Tracey Emin 1963 - English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork [56][57]

Composers, musicians and record producers

Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
Edward Elgar 1857-1934 English composer best known for his orchestral works including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches [58]
Bill Wyman 1936 - Bassist of The Rolling Stones [59]
Errol Brown 1943-2015 British-Jamaican singer-songwriter and frontman of the soul band Hot Chocolate [60]
Jimmy Page 1944 - Guitarist, writer and composer of the renowned hard rock band Led Zeppelin [61][62][63]
Roger Daltrey 1944 - Co-founder and lead singer of the hard rock band The Who [64][65][66]
John Entwistle 1944-2002 Bassist of the hard rock band The Who [67]
Eric Clapton 1945 - Highly influential guitarist known for his solo work as well as being a member of blues rock band The Yardbirds and psychedelic rock band Cream [68]
Bryan Ferry 1945 - Vocalist and principal songwriter of the art rock band Roxy Music [69]
Roy Wood 1946 - Member and co-founder of rock bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard [70]
Lynsey de Paul 1948-2014 English singer-songwriter and producer [71]
Kenney Jones 1948 - Drummer of the rock bands Small Faces and Faces [72]
Rick Wakeman 1949 - Keyboardist of the progressive rock band Yes [73]
Mike Oldfield 1953 - Prominent progressive rock musician [74]
John Lydon 1956 - Lead vocalist of the pioneering punk rock band Sex Pistols and frontman of the experimental post-punk band Public Image Ltd [75][76][77]
Ian Curtis 1956-1980 Lead singer and lyricist of the prolific post-punk band Joy Division [78][79][80][81]
Mark E. Smith 1957-2018 Frontman and lyricist of the pivotal experimental post-punk band The Fall [82]
Jon Moss 1957 - Drummer of the New Romantic group Culture Club [83]
Bruce Dickinson 1958 - Frontman of the influential heavy metal band Iron Maiden [84]
Morrissey 1959 - Frontman and lyricist of the important indie pop band The Smiths
Tony Hadley 1960 - Lead singer of the New Romantic group Spandau Ballet [85]
Gary Barlow 1971 - Lead singer of the pop group Take That [86]
Kerry Katona 1980 - Original member of the pop group Atomic Kitten [87]

Filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers

The son of a high church Anglican, Olivier was a lifelong Conservative. In 1983, he wrote to congratulate Margaret Thatcher following her victory in that year's General Election.[88]
Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
Laurence Olivier 1907-1989 Director and writer of films including Hamlet and Richard III [89]
Peter Glenville 1913-1996 Director of films including The Prisoner and Becket [90]
Peter Sellers 1925-1980 Writer and director of films including The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film and Mr. Topaze [91]
Bryan Forbes 1926-2013 Director and writer of films including Séance on a Wet Afternoon, King Rat and The Stepford Wives [92]
Michael Winner 1935-2013 Director of films including Hannibal Brooks and Death Wish [93]
Terence Donovan 1936-1996 Photographer and director of music videos [94]
Tom Stoppard 1937 - Writer of films including Brazil, Empire of the Sun and The Russia House [95]
Julian Fellowes 1949 - Creator and writer of Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age [96]

Novelists, poets and short story writers

"And personally, I am, as you know, an old-fashioned Tory. So far we are in accord", T. S. Eliot wrote to Ford Madox Ford in 1923.[97]
Name Lifetime Notability Ref.
Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 Author of Jane Eyre and Villette [98]
Lewis Carroll 1832–1898 Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass [99]
Alfred Austin 1835–1913 Author of A Poem – To England [100]
Mary Augusta Ward 1851-1920 Author of Robert Elsmere, Marcella, and The Marriage of William Ashe
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 Author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [101]
George Gissing 1857–1903 Author of The Nether World, New Grub Street and The Odd Women [102]
Joseph Conrad 1857–1924 Author of Heart of Darkness and Nostromo [103]
Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 Creator of Canon of Sherlock Holmes and The Lost World [104]
W. W. Jacobs 1863–1943 Author of The Lady of the Barge including The Monkey's Paw [105]
Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936 Nobel Laureate author of The Jungle Book duology, Kim and Just So Stories [106]
Saki 1870-1916 Author of The Westminster Alice and When William Came [107][108]
G. K. Chesterton 1874–1934 Author of The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Everlasting Man and the Father Brown stories [109][110]
John Hay Beith 1876–1952 Author of Pip, A Safety Match and The Midshipmaid under the pen name Ian Hay [111]
T. E. Hulme 1883–1917 Author of "Autumn" and "A City Sunset", both published in 1909 in a Poets' Club anthology, have the distinction of being the first Imagist poems.
T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 Author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men and Four Quartets [112]
Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Author of Murder on the Orient Express, A Murder Is Announced, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [113]
J. R. R. Tolkien 1892–1973 Author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit [114]
C. S. Lewis 1898–1963 Author of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity
Elizabeth Bowen 1899–1973 Author of The Last September, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout [115][116]
Barbara Cartland 1901-2000 Author of A Ghost in Monte Carlo [117]
Evelyn Waugh 1903–1966 Author of the Decline and Fall , A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, and the Sword of Honour trilogy [118]
Anthony Powell 1905-2000 Author of the 12-volume roman-fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time [119]
Lawrence Durrell 1912–1990 Author of The Alexandria Quartet [120]
Anthony Burgess 1917–1993 Author of The Malayan Trilogy and A Clockwork Orange [121]
P. D. James 1920–2014 Author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Children of Men [122]
John Braine 1922–1986 Author of Room at the Top [123]
Kingsley Amis 1922-1995 Author of Lucky Jim, Jake's Thing and The Old Devils [124][125]
Philip Larkin 1922–1985 Author of The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows [126][127]
J. G. Ballard 1930–2009 Author of The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash and High-Rise [128][129][130]
V. S. Naipaul 1932-2018 Nobel Laureate author of the A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, A Bend in the River and The Enigma of Arrival
Jilly Cooper 1937 - Author of the Rutshire Chronicles including Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous [131]
Frederick Forsyth 1938 - Author of The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War and The Fist of God [132]

Media

Name Founded/defunct Notability Ref.
The Times 1785 – British daily national newspaper based in London that is widely considered to be the newspaper of record[133] along with The Daily Telegraph [134][135]
The Sunday Times 1821 – British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category [136][137]
The Spectator 1828 – Conservative news magazine first published in July 1828 making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world[138]
The Daily Telegraph 1855 – British daily conservative broadsheet newspaper founded by Arthur B. Sleigh which is often regarded as the paper of record newspaper of record[139] together with The Times [140][141]

See also

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