Pat Hudson
Pat Hudson was born in Barrow- in- Furness, Lancashire.
She is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cardiff.
Charles Duncan (politician)
Charles Duncan( 8 June 1865 – 6 July 1933) was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist.
He was General Secretary of the Workers' Union from 1900 to 1929.
He was Member of Parliament for Barrow- in- Furness from 1906 to 1918, and Member of Parliament for Clay Cross from 1922 to 1933( his death).
Walter Monslow, Baron Monslow
Walter Monslow, Baron Monslow( 26 January 1895 – 12 October 1966) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Born in Wrexham, Monslow joined the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, becoming its organising secretary.
He also joined the Labour Party, serving on Wrexham Rural District Council for some years until 1937.
At the 1935 general election, Monslow unsuccessfully contested Newcastle upon Tyne Central.
He was elected at 1945 general election as Member of Parliament( MP) for Barrow- in- Furness, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the general election in March 1966.
On 15 June 1966, he was made a life peer as Baron Monslow, of Barrow- in- Furness in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
He died in October that year, aged 71.
James Duncan (MP for Barrow-in-Furness)
James Archibald Duncan( 1858–1911) was a British lawyer a Liberal politician who briefly represented the seat of Barrow- in- Furness.
Duncan was born in Valparaiso, the son of the shipper David Duncan and his wife Catherine Williamson.
The family moved to Gayton Hall, Wirral, Cheshire and Duncan was educated at Amersham Hall and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was called to the bar in 1883 and became a barrister of the Inner Temple.
In 1890 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Barrow- in- Furness which had been briefly his father's seat.
However he lost the seat two years later in 1892.
Duncan was unmarried.
His nephew Sir James Duncan was also an MP and became a baronet.
Daniel Somerville
Daniel Gerald Somerville( 26 October 1879 – 1 July 1938) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament( MP) for Barrow- in- Furness.
He was re-elected in 1923, but was narrowly defeated at the 1924 election in a straight contest with the Labour Party candidate John Bromley.
He returned to the House of Commons at the 1929 general election as MP for the north- west London constituency of Willesden East.
He held that seat until his death in 1938, aged 58.
Somerville died on the same day as his predecessor as MP for Willesden East, George Frederick Stanley.
Dan Parkinson (footballer)
Daniel James Parkinson is an English footballer who plays as a Midfielder.
He currently plays for Barrow in the Conference North.
David Duncan (politician)
David Duncan (1831 – 30 December 1886) was a British merchant and shipper and a Liberal Party politician who briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness.
Duncan was born at Alyth, Perthshire, the fourth son of James Duncan, a manufacturer and merchant, and was educated at the High School of Dundee.
He and his elder brother James went to South America where they became very successful traders.
In 1851 he went into partnership with Alexander Balfour and Stephen Williamson in the shipping business of Balfour Williamson.
He and Williamson were based in Valparaiso while Balfour looked after the Liverpool end of the business.
After the partnership ran into personal difficulties, Duncan left Balfour Williamson in 1863, and formed his own company, Duncan Fox & Co., which became a great commercial rival of Balfour Williamson in Chile, with interests in mining as well as shipping.
He returned to England and lived at Gayton Hall in Cheshire where he was a J. P. and was also a director of the Royal Insurance Company.
In 1885 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness, but was unseated on petition.
He was then elected to represent Liverpool Exchange which he held until his death later that year.
In 1856 Duncan married Catherine Williamson of Anstruther, sister of Stephen Williamson.
Their eldest son James was born in Valparaiso.
James was also briefly MP for Barrow-in-Furness.
His grandson by another son, Sir James Duncan, was also an MP and became a baronet.
John Bromley (politician)
John Bromley (16 July 1876 – 7 September 1945) was an English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow-in-Furness from 1924 to 1931, and a trade union leader.
Alvin S. Felzenberg
Alvin S. Felzenberg is an American presidential historian, political commentator, and public official.
He was Principal Spokesman for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission.
Felzenberg is currently Director of Communications for the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress.
Felzenberg served as the Special Assistant and Adviser to the National Broadcasting Board of Governors, as consultant to the Secretary of the Navy, and as Director of Community Outreach and Public Liaison for the Office of Secretary in the U.S. Department of Defense during the administration of George W. Bush.
From 1982 to 1989, Felzenberg was assistant secretary of state of New Jersey in the administration of Governor Thomas H. Kean Felzenberg was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He has lectured at Princeton, Yale, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins Universities.
Since 2007, Felzenberg has been visiting lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of" The Keys to a Successful Presidency Governor Tom Kean: From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 9/11 Commission The Leaders We Deserved( and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game", and" A Man and His Presidents — The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr".
Felzenberg is a regular contributor to several periodicals, including" The Philadelphia InquirerU.S. News& World Report The Weekly Standard" and" National Review".
Felzenberg holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in politics from Princeton University and an M.A. and B.A. from Rutgers University.
He previously served as Administrative Assistant to U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton.
Vic Metcalfe
Victor Metcalfe (3 February 1922 – 6 April 2003) was a professional footballer who was born in Barrow-in-Furness where his father played rugby league for Barrow.

Question: Were Alvin S. Felzenberg and James Duncan (MP for Barrow-in-Furness) of the same nationality?
Answer: no