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1883-1972
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland
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1894-1940
Gladwyn Kingsley Noble was an American zoologist who served as the head curator for the Department of Herpetology and the Department of Experimental Biology at the American Museum of Natural History. Noble is the taxon author of 20 new species of reptiles. A species of lizard, Anolis noblei, is named in his honour. Also, a subspecies of lizard, Sphaerodactylus darlingtoni noblei, is named in his honor
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1868-1948
Albert Edwin Hayward Pinch was a General Surgeon and Radiologist. He was resident Medical Superintendent and General Director of the Radium Institute
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1894-1921
Andrew Frederick Weatherby (Anthony) Beauchamp-Procter was a South African airman and a recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was South Africa's leading ace of the First World War, being credited with 54 aerial victories
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1882-1971
Alexander Grant Ruthven received a PhD in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1906. He worked as a professor, director of the University Museum, and Dean. He became the President in 1929. The work of Ruthven on the familiar garter snakes, published in 1908, may be regarded as founding an essentially new school of herpetology in the United States. Ruthven described and named 16 new species of reptiles. Ruthven is commemorated in the scientific names of seven reptiles: Geophis ruthveni, Holbrookia maculata ruthveni, Lampropeltis ruthveni, Lepidoblepharis ruthveni, Macropholidus ruthveni, Masticophis schotti ruthveni, and Pituophis ruthveni
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1861-1934
Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet, was an Irish-born British military officer and aristocrat. He founded the Order of World Scouts
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1867-1939
Franz Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specialising as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects and other organisms
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1892-1967
Otto von Wettstein, name also given as Otto Wettstein-Westersheimb, was an Austrian Zoologist. He was the son of botanist Richard Wettstein and the brother of botanist Fritz von Wettstein. He is best known for his work in the field of herpetology