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John James Joass was a Scottish architect, born in Dingwall, Scotland. His father, William Cumming Joass was an established architect in that town.

He was given basic training with his father, and then in 1885 articled with John Burnet & Son in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1890 he moved to the firm of Robert Rowand Anderson, and then in 1893 to London. After a number of positions he joined John Belcher's practice in 1896. He became a partner in 1905, and continued the practice after the death of Belcher in 1913.

Edgar Johnson Allen was a British marine biologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and won the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1926 and the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1936. Allen was the fifth Director of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, serving from 1894 to 1936