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Lindley, Sir Francis Oswald
Personne · 1872-1950

Sir Francis Oswald Lindley was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919-1920, Ambassador to Austria 1920-1921, Ambassador to Greece 1922-1923, Minister in Oslo 1923-1929, Ambassador to Portugal 1929-1931, and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931-1934. Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London 1945-1950
Morrison-Scott, Sir Terence Charles Stuart
Personne · 1908-1991

Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott was a British zoologist who was Director of the Science Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in London. He was appointed as an Assistant Keeper (2nd class) in the Department of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) in 1936. He was promoted to Assistant Keeper (1st class) in 1943. He became Head of the Mammal Section in 1945 and Principal Scientific Officer in 1948. From 1956-1960 he was Director of the Science Museum. Then from 1960 he was Director of the British Museum (Natural History) until his retirement in 1968. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London 1950-1976.
Hill, William Norman
Personne · 1914-

Catering Manager at the Zoological Society of London
Yealland, John James
Personne · 1904-1983

John James Yealland was a British aviculturalist and ornithologist. He helped Sir Peter Scott found the Wildfowl Trust. He accompanied Gerald Durrell on his first animal collecting expedition to the British Cameroon in 1947-1948. He went to become the Curator of Birds at London Zoo
Corbett, Henry
Personne · 1908-

Prosectorium Assistant, Laboratory Assistant and Chief Scientific Assistant at ZSL
Denton, P H
Personne · fl 1988

Director of Administration at Zoological Society of London
Vigors, Nicholas Aylward
Vigors, Nicholas Aylward
Personne · 1785-1840

Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809-1811. He then returned to Oxford, graduating in 1815. He practiced as a barrister and became a Doctor of Civil Law in 1832.

He was co-founder of the Zoological Society of London in 1826, and its first Secretary until 1833. In 1833 he founded what became the Royal Entomological Society of London. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society. He was the author of 40 papers, mostly on ornithology. He described 110 species of birds. He provided the text for John Gould's 'A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains' (1830-1832). One bird that he described was Sabine's Snipe. Vigors lent a skin for later editions of Thomas Bewick's 'History of British Birds'.

Vigors succeeded to his father's estate in 1828. He was MP for the borough of Carlow from 1832 until 1835. He briefly represented the constituency of County Carlow in 1835. Vigors won a by-election in 1837 and retained the seat until his death.
Bennett, Edward Turner
Personne · 1799-1836

Bennett was an English Zoologist and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett. He was born at Hackney and practiced as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology. In 1822 he attempted to establish an entomological society, which later became a zoological society in connection with the Linnean Society. This in turn became the starting point of the Zoological Society of London, of which Bennett was Secretary from 1831-1836.

His works included 'The Tower Menagerie' (1829) and 'The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society (1831). He also wrote, in conjunction with G. T. Lay, the section of Fishes in the 'Zoology of Beechey's Voyage' (1839). In 1835 he described a new species of African crocodile, Mecistops leptorhynchus, the validity of which was confirmed in 2018.