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Helper at ZSL London Zoo

Helper in the Pheasantries and later Keeper at ZSL London Zoo

Boiler House Assistant at ZSL London Zoo

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

Superintendent's Secretary at ZSL London Zoo

Anthony Salvin was an English architect, known mainly for house design in Tudor style and the restoration of a number of castles and churches. He was born in 1827 in Sunderland Bridge, County Durham to General Anthony Salvin Snr, and his second wife Elizabeth Mills. He was educated at Durham School, and for a time he worked under the Scottish architect John Patterson. He first moved to London in 1821 and is said to have worked in the office of John Nash. He was married in 1826 to his cousin Ann Andrews Nesfield with who he had 6 children, including the naturalist Osbert Salvin. He was awarded the royal gold medal from RIBA in 1863. He died in 1881 at his house Hawksfold in Fenhurst, Sussex.