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Wolff, Henry Drummond, Sir
Persoon · 1830-1908

Sir Henry Drummond Charles Wolff was an English diplomat and Conservative Party politician, who started as a clerk in the Foreign Office
Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor
Persoon · 1870-1935

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports and rural life
Allan, George William
Persoon · 1822-1901

George William Allan was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 11th Mayor of Toronto and later as Speaker of the Senate of Canada
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett
Persoon · 1873-1955

Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery was a British Conservative politician and journalist. During his career, he was known for his interest in military preparedness, British India and the British Empire and for his opposition to appeasement
Baring, Thomas George
Persoon · 1826-1904

Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, was a British Liberal statesman. Gladstone appointed him Governor-General of India 1872-1876. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1880 and 1885.
Beddard, Frank Evers
Beddard, Frank Evers
Persoon · 1858-1925

Frank Evers Beddard was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, the son of John Beddard. He was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford.

Beddard was naturalist to the Challenger Expedition Commission from 1882-1884. In 1884 he was appointed prosector at the Zoological Society of London. He was also Vice-Secretary at the Society.

He became lecturer in biology at Guy's Hospital, examiner in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of London, and lecturer in morphology at Oxford University.

Apart from his publications on wide-ranging topics in zoology such as isopoda, mammalia, ornithology, zoogeography and animal coloration, Beddard became noted as an authority on the annelids, publishing two books on the group and contributing articles on earthworms, leeches and the nematoda for the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Beddard contributed biographies of zoologists William Henry Flower and John Anderson for the Dictionary of National Biography. He was the author of volume 10 (mammalia) of the Cambridge Natural History. Beddard's olingo (Pocock, 1921) is named after him.