The Royal Voluntary Service is a voluntary organisation concerned with helping people in need throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1938 by Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, as a British women's organisation to recruit women into the Air Raid Precautions services to help in the event of war
Leonard Sidney Woolf was a British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf
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
Edward Michael Behrens was a British financier, banker, stockbroker and restaurant and gallery owner, who became the co-owner of the Ionian Bank. Through his ownership of the Hanover Gallery, he was an early patron of the artist Francis Bacon
An An arrived is Moscow from Peking on 18th August 1959
Professor in the Anatomy School at Cambridge
Founder and Director of the Yamashina Institute of Ornithology and Zoology. President of the Japanese Association for the Protection of Birds. Vice-President of the Japanese Ornithological Society