Zoologist, Acting Superintendent of the Gardens and Secretary to the Garden Committee of the Zoological Society of London (appointed 1902)
Barlow was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, to his father Thomas WIlliam, a Clerk. He was educated at Blundell's School, after which in 1816 he started attending Trinity College, Cambridge. He earned his BA in 1820 and his MA in 1823. In 1822 he became the curate of the parish of Uckfield, Sussex. On 23rd March 1823 he was ordained as a priest. From 1830-1843 he was rector to the parish in Little Bowden, Northamptonshire. In 1824 he married Cecilia Anne Lam.
In 1832 Barlow joined the Royal Institution of Great Britain and he would serve many positions including Manager (1838), Secretary of the Lectures Committee (1841) and Honorary Secretary (1843-1860. Barlow was elected into the Royal Society in 1834 and served as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1837-1838.
In 1851 Barlow became minister of the Duke Street Chapel, London and from 1854-1859 he was Chaplain-in-Ordinary at Kensington Palace.
Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection and a leading figure in mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1935-1942, the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the President of the British Eugenics Society 1959-1962, and the first President of the British Humanist Association.
He was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He directed an Oscar winning wildlife film. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society on 1958. He was knighted in 1958. In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood - World Population.
In 1935 Huxley was appointed Secretary to the Zoological Society of London, and spent much of the next seven years running the society and its zoological gardens, London Zoo and Whipsnade Park, alongside his writing and research. Huxley introduced a range of ideas for making the Zoo child friendly. He fenced off the Fellow's Lawn to establish Pets Corner, appointed new assistant curators who he encouraged to talk to children, and he initiated the Zoo Magazine.
William Charles Linnaeus Martin was an English naturalist. He was the son of English naturalist and palaeontologist William Martin (1767-1810), who named him after the taxonomist Carl Linnaeus. Martin was the curator of the ZSL Museum from 1830-1839. After this he was a prolific natural history writer, authoring many books and articles. Forty-five of his papers appear in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society.
Keeper of the Hippo Obaysch
Professor Edward Hindle was a British biologist and entomologist who was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow from 1935 to 1943. He specialised in the study of parasites. He was founder of the Zoological Society of Glasgow. In 1943 he was appointed the first Scientific Director of the Zoological Society of London
Annie Porter (married name Fantham) was an English zoologist and Honorary Parasitologist to the Zoological Society of London. Annie Porter was the daughter of S. Porter of Brighton. After studying at University College London, she moved to the Quick Laboratory in Cambridge. From 1914 to 1917 she was Beit Memorial Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 1915 she married fellow zoologist Harold Benjamin Fantham. From 1917 to 1933 Porter was Head of the Department of Parasitology at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. She was also Senior Lecturer in Parasitology at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1933 to 1938 she was a research associate in zoology at McGill University
Honorary Supervisor of the Apes' Nursery until 1956
Oliver Graham-Jones was born in 1919 and lived in Harborne, Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School and read veterinary medicine at the Royal Veterinary College in London.
After qualifying in 1941, he bought his own practice in Camberley, Surrey. Shortly afterwards he volunteered for the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in Italy, looking after the pack mules.
Graham-Jones took up the new post of Veterinary Officer at London Zoo in 1951, and he took a flat between the seal and hippo enclosures. He was the first resident Veterinary Surgeon at ZSL London Zoo in 1951. He set up its first animal surgery, developing the 'flying syringe' for anaesthetising animals without distress. He was responsible for the health of many famous ZSL animals, such as Guy the Gorilla, Churchill's Lion, Rota, and Chi-Chi the Giant Panda.
In 1966 he moved on to become Senior Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He was founding President of the British Veterinary Zoological Society and past President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.
Clerk, Secretary's Secretary and Private Secretary at ZSL London Zoo