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Theodor von Bunsen was a German diplomat and member of the Reichstag.

Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college and forming labour cooperatives, which encouraged later working reforms.

Kingsley received letters from Thomas Huxley in 1860, and sent letters in 1863 discussing Huxley's early ideas on agnosticism.

He was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to welcome Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species.

Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer and twice as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.