15th-century English politicians

Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier, and literary patron. He was (as he styled himself) "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England, the brother of Henry V, and the uncle of Henry VI. Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years' War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew. A controversial figure, he has been characterised as reckless, unprincipled, and fractious, but is also noted for his intellectual activity and for being the first significant English patron of humanism, in the context of the Renaissance.

John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, KG (20 June 1389 – 14 September 1435), also known as John Plantagenet, was the third surviving son of King Henry IV of England by Mary de Bohun, and acted as Regent of France for his nephew, King Henry VI.

Avery Cornburgh (1430 – 2 February 1487) was an English politician and sea captain who was Under-Treasurer of England from 1483 to 1487 and Keeper of the Great Wardrobe in the Royal Household from 1486 to 1487.

William Alne was an English politician who was MP for York in May 1413 and March 1416. He was also bailiff, chamberlain, councillor, and sheriff of his native York, the first two positions held by his father Richard (died 1409).

John Adam was an English politician who was MP for New Romney in 1410, February 1413, March 1416, 1419, 1423, 1427, 1429, and 1431, and jurat and bailiff for the aforementioned town on many occasions. He was the Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth from September to November 1410 and in 1430. History of Parliament Online theorizes that he was a son of Stephen Adam.

Robert Axi was an English politician who was MP for Bletchingley in 1417. Their History of Parliament Online biography, which is actually an online reprint of the entry that appeared in the 1993 book The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, which was edited by three people, one of whom was the historian J. S. Roskell who was a Fellow of the British Academy, simply has only one word: "unidentified".

Robert Acclom was an English politician who was MP for Scarborough in 1401 and October 1404. He was the son of John Acclom.

John Arnold of Winchester (died 1433) was an English politician who was MP for Hampshire in May 1413. He also served more than eighteen years as the bailiff of Bishop Henry Beaufort.

Robert Swinburne (c. 1376 – after 1426), of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, was an English merchant. He was a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne in April 1414 and 1426.

Richard Clitheroe (died c. 1463), of New Romney, Kent, was an English politician.