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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Russell was a British Conservative politician and soldier. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces

Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. Salt is considered by some to be the "father of animal rights", having been one of the first writers to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights, rather than just improvements to animal welfare in his Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress. He formed the Humanitarian League in 1891

Edward Linley Sambourne was an English cartoonist and illustrator

Sir Felix Semon was a German-British pioneer in neurobiology and a prominent laryngologist in the United Kingdom. He is responsible for Semon's law

John Smith was a British botanist who was the first curator at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, starting in 1841