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George Walter Grabham was born in Madeira. Educated at University College School and St John's College, Cambridge, he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1903 and worked in Scotland until 1906. He then became a Government geologist in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Grabham retired from the Geological Survey of the Sudan in 1934 but was retained as geological adviser until 1939

Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood was a physician and British Army medical officer who served as Director General of Army Medical Services from 1941 to 1948. He subsequently served as Governor of Bermuda from 1949-1955

The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of University College London. It was founded in 1946 and together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital, forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. In 1996 the Institute merged with University College London

Stanley Wells Kemp was an English marine biologist. In 1910 he joined the Zoological and Anthropological section of the Indian Museum, and when the organisation was converted in 1916 to the Zoological Survey of India, he became Superintendent and took up the study of crustaceans to continue work started by James Wood-Mason and Alfred William Alcock. He spent fourteen years in India during which he published seventeen papers on the decapods of the Indian Museum. He undertook expeditions to Baluchistan, Andaman Islands, the Abor Hills, Garo Hills and Rameshwaram. In 1910 he became a Fellow of Calcutta University and a Fellow of the Asiatic Society. In 1924 he returned to Ireland to become the first director of research in the Discovery investigations. He was Director of the Marine Biological Association from 1936 to 1945. Among the discoveries he made were the first onychophoran from the Indian region which he named as Typhloperipatus williamsoni

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