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Stanley Wells Kemp was an English marine biologist. In 1910 he joined the Zoological and Anthropological section of the Indian Museum, and when the organisation was converted in 1916 to the Zoological Survey of India, he became Superintendent and took up the study of crustaceans to continue work started by James Wood-Mason and Alfred William Alcock. He spent fourteen years in India during which he published seventeen papers on the decapods of the Indian Museum. He undertook expeditions to Baluchistan, Andaman Islands, the Abor Hills, Garo Hills and Rameshwaram. In 1910 he became a Fellow of Calcutta University and a Fellow of the Asiatic Society. In 1924 he returned to Ireland to become the first director of research in the Discovery investigations. He was Director of the Marine Biological Association from 1936 to 1945. Among the discoveries he made were the first onychophoran from the Indian region which he named as Typhloperipatus williamsoni

Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

Annie Porter (married name Fantham) was an English zoologist and Honorary Parasitologist to the Zoological Society of London. Annie Porter was the daughter of S. Porter of Brighton. After studying at University College London, she moved to the Quick Laboratory in Cambridge. From 1914 to 1917 she was Beit Memorial Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 1915 she married fellow zoologist Harold Benjamin Fantham. From 1917 to 1933 Porter was Head of the Department of Parasitology at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. She was also Senior Lecturer in Parasitology at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1933 to 1938 she was a research associate in zoology at McGill University

William Homan Thorpe was Professor of Animal Ethology at the University of Cambridge, and a British zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist