But Jersey has its share too.
St Clement Constable Len Norman followed his father into the States, and Health Minister Anne Pryke is the daughter of former St Brelade Constable Enid Quénault and the niece of former St Ouen Constable Arthur Quérée – himself the son of another States Member of the same name.
This photograph shows three members of the Island’s most successful and numerous political dynasty. The gentleman in the photograph on the wall is George Troy – a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers, and one of the founders of both Channel Television and the Jersey Progressive Party.
Standing in front of the framed photograph is a man who needs no introduction – his nephew Senator Dick Shenton, a long-serving Senator who holds a record for the highest total of votes in a Senatorial election that is unlikely ever to be beaten.
And in front of him is a 16-year-old Ben Shenton – now serving in the States as a Senator and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
The current Senator Shenton came across the photograph recently.
He said: ‘It was taken around 1976 – I would have been around 16 and my father would have recently secured another poll-topping victory. He still holds the record for the highest number of votes.
‘The glasses belonged to my dad and I suppose in some ways I was mimicking him by trying to look businesslike.’
