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Helper and Keeper at ZSL London Zoo. Killed in action in 1917

Widow of late Gatekeeper at ZSL London Zoo

Robert Cyril Layton was educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1877-1885) and Jesus College, Oxford (1885-1889). He briefly worked as a private tutor at Dartmouth. He was selected by the Sandwich Islands Committee (set up by the British Association and the Royal Society) to go as collector to the Hawaiian Islands in 1891. He spent the greater part of the next ten years in the Hawaiian Island collection all groups of terrestrial animals. He was on the Board of Agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii, 1902-1904, and director of the new division of entomology at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association's experimental station in 1904. He retired to England in 1912. He was awarded an Oxford DSc in 1906 and gold medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1912. He was elected FRS in 1920

Assistant Accountant at ZSL

Garden Labourer and Keeper at ZSL London Zoo

Shift Engineer in the Aquarium, later Labourer, Stoker and Zoo Technician at ZSL London Zoo

Sir William Henry Perkin was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying to synthesis quinine for the treatment of malaria, he became successful in the field of dyes after his first discovery at the age of 18

Children's Zoo Helper at ZSL London Zoo