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The Bostock menagerie dynasty originated with James Bostock (1814-1878), who started working at Wombwell's menagerie in 1838 after leaving the family home. In the years following his employment with Wombwell, James progressed from horse keeper to contracting and advertising agent and became instrumental in attaining two Royal Commands for exhibition at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria in 1847 and 1854.

The core axis of this dynasty would be carried over by three of them: Edward Henry, who became the successor to his father' James William, who managed a separate menagerie business and sideshow; and Frank Charles, who set off on his own direction touring the UK, Europe, and America.

Although Bostock and Wombwell continued presenting menageries until the first third of the 20th century, strands of the family diversified into alternative types of business as early as 1897, when Frank's brother, Edward Henry, opened The Scottish Zoo. Edward became one of the most prominent members of the Bostock family in the 20th century, expanding his business operations to the travelling circus, which included The Royal Italian Circus (formerly Volpi's Circus) and several Hippodromes and picture palaces.

Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie showed for the last time at the Old Sheep Market in Newcastle on December 1931 with many of their animals ending their days in zoos and museums across the country

Henri Gadeau de Kerville was a French Zoologist, Entomologist, Botanist and Archaeologist, best known for his photographs of these subjects and especially for his work "Les Insectes phosphorescents: notes complémentaires et bibliographie générale (anatomie physiologie et biologie): avec quatre planches chromolithographiées", Rouen, L. Deshays, 1881.

Anne, Princess Royal is a member of the British Royal Family. She is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the only sister of King Charles III. Ane is 16th in the line of succession to the British throne and has been Princess Royal since 1987

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Henry Harold Scott was a pathologist, bacteriologist and medical author. He was President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1943-1945.

He was educated at the Mercers' School. He then trained at St Thomas' Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

He served in the Second Boer War from 1902 in the South African Field Force, receiving the Queen's Medal with five clasps. Returning to England, he served as a GP in Ludlow. In 1920 he received a government appointment of state pathologist to Jamaica and lived there for four years.

He served as a pathologist for the RAMC in the First World War, based at the Cambridge Hospital in Aldershot.

In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In 1922 he took another government appointment as pathologist and bacteriologist in Hong Kong. However, he grew ill there and had to return home. He then found an appointment as pathologist at the Zoological Society of London. In 1928 he became Medical Secretary to the Colonial Medical Research Council in London. In 1930 he became Assistant Director of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 1935 he was created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and in 1941 was created a Knight of the Order.

He retired in 1942, and died in Braintree on 6 August 1956.

Sir Charles Clore was a British financier, retail and property magnate and philanthropist.

Sanatorium staff at London Zoo. He contracted Psittacosis and died in 1938

The British Herpetological Society is an international herpetological society based in the United Kingdom. The BHS is a non-profit organisation with goals to support the conservation, education and captive care of reptiles and amphibians. The society regularly publishes the Herpetological Journal and Herpetological Bulletin on a quarterly basis. It is one of the oldest international herpetological societies.

The society was established in 1947 with the help of Dr Malcolm A Smith who was a physician who practiced in the Royal Court of Siam. Whilst in Siam, Dr Smith studied the herpetofauna as well as that of south-east Asia. After retiring, he returned to Britain where he developed an interest in the native reptiles and amphibians. This led him founding the society as a way to promote the values he saw fit in regards to the herpetofauna of the British Isles and the wider landscape