Two of these were to make an impact on national politics, in the persons of John Guest and Benjamin Hall. Both supported the reforming Whig Party, and won themselves titles, Guest as a baronet and Hall as a baron, taking the name Lord Llanover. Hall was to earn a different kind of enduring fame by gaining direct responsibility for the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster and having the bell of the new clock tower named after him. It has come to chime out time for the British nation, as Big Ben.
