Herbert Colstoun Gardner was the MP for Saffron Walden (1885-95) and the author of many plays, including A Night on Snowdon and He that Will Not when He May, as well as inventories of the monuments of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire.
In 1935 Rab Butler was elected for the third time as Tory MP for the constituency. His opponent was Clara Rackham, the suffragist who had been the first female Labour councillor in Cambridge (the very first having been Florence Ada Keynes, the mother of John Maynard). Rackham was a sister-in-law of the illustrator Arthur Rackham and is commemorated in Rackham Close, Cambridge.
Armine Wodehouse (Liberal, 1900-1901) shared his unusual first name with the elder brother of P G and married the daughter of the poet Matthew Arnold.
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