Ethelwynn Trewavas was an ichthyologist at the British Museum of Natural History. She was known for her work on the families Cichlidae and Sciaenidae
Goldie the Eagle was received from Helsinki Zoo on 16th December 1959. He was approximately seven years old when he escaped from London Zoo on 27th February 1965. Britain quickly became obsessed with the escape of Goldie; he appeared on television, in the press and was mentioned in the House of Commons. He flew from tree to tree in Regent's Park and was free for 11 days and 19 and a half hours before he was recaptured and brought back to the Zoo. Goldie escaped again on 15th December and was captured again on 19th December 1965. Goldie left London Zoo on 8th March 1985 when he moved to the Falconry Centre at Newent. He died there in March 1986
The Civil Service Angling Society was founded in 1934. Its first President was Neville Chamberlain who was Prime Minister 1937-1940. In the early days, the Society's membership mainly was drawn from civil servants who worked in the Whitehall area
Sir (Hugh) Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake was a businessman, zoo owner and author. Between 1915 and 1950, he was twelve times the Mayor of Maidstone, Kent and was High Sheriff of Kent in 1956-1957. He lived at Cobtree Manor, Sandling, where he used part of his estate to house his private zoo - the largest in Great Britain - in which he kept lions, tigers, bears and elephants. He wrote two books: Beasts and Circuses; My Life with Animals (1939) and The English Circus and Fairground (1946)
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