Sir George Cornewall Lewis was a British statesman and man of letters. He is best known for preserving neutrality in 1862 when the British cabinet debated intervention in the American Civil War
Raja Rajendra Mullick was an Indian art lover and philanthropist. He was the scion of the Mullick family of Chorbagan and built the Marble Palace of Kolkata. When the Zoological Gardens was set up in 1876, he donated many birds and animals from his personal collection. They were kept in a house named the Mullick House inside the zoo
Sir Charles Augustus Murray was a British author and diplomat
Alfred Newton was an English zoologist and ornithologist. Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907. Among his numerous publications were a four-volume Dictionary of Birds (1893-6), entries on ornithology in the Encyclopædia Britannica (9th edition) while also an editor of the journal Ibis from 1865 to 1870. In 1900 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Gold Medal of the Linnaean Society. He founded the British Ornithologists Union
Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram was a British general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Colonel Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps was a British soldier and courtier