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Comfort, Alex
Person · 1920-2000

Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector.

Comfort has a passion for molluscs, and joined the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland when he was eighteen years old. He made many contributions to the literature.

He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge and studied medicine, qualifying in 1944 with the conjoint diplomas of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians London, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons England, and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery or MB BChir.

Colson, Irene Maud
Person · 1893-

Office Cleaner in the Old Sanatorium at ZSL London Zoo

Collins, Dennis
Person · 1904

Labourer in the Works Department at ZSL London Zoo

Collins, Albert W
Person · 1879-1953

Helper and Keeper at ZSL London Zoo

Collier, John
Person · 1850-1934

John Maler Collier was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studies painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy

Collie, Nora Jean
Person · 1921-

General Clerk at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Coleridge, John Duke, Sir
Person · 1820-1894

John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor-General for England, Attorney-General for England, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England