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Maxwell-Lefroy, Harold
Maxwell-Lefroy, Harold
Personne · 1877-1925

Harold Maxwell-Lefroy was an English entomologist. He served as a Professor of Entomology at Imperial College London and as the second Imperial Entomologist to India. He left India after the death of two of his children from insect-borne diseases. He worked on applied entomology and initiated experiments on the use of chemicals to control insects. A formula he developed was utilised to save Westminster Hall from destruction by wood-boring beetles, while others were used to control lice in the trenches during the First World War. The success of his chemicals led to increased demand and the founding of Rentokil, a company for insecticide production. Maxwell-Lefroy's students included Evelyn Cheesman who took up a position at the insect house in London Zoo from 1919. He was killed while experimenting on fumigants to control insects.
Cave, Alexander James Edward
Personne · 1900-2001

Alexander James Edward Cave was a British anatomist. Cave was Senior Demonstrator and Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Leeds until 1933, when he became the Curator of the Anatomical Museum at University College in London. He also became Arnott Demonstrator and Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. For more than two decades, he was Professor of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was also Examiner in Anatomy for London University, Cambridge University, and the Royal University of Malta. He was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons as a Fellow in 1959, and was granted lifetime membership to the Anatomical Society. He served as president of the Linnean Society from 1970 to 1973
Bernstein, Sidney L
Personne · fl 1955

Chairman of The Granada Theatres Limited and Transatlantic Pictures Corporation Limited
Alexander, Beryl
Personne · fl 1956

Employed at the Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham
Rota the Lion
Animal · fl 1943

African Lion presented by the Zoological Society of London to Sir Winston Churchill as a war mascot and to commemorate victories in North Africa