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David Armitage Bannerman was a British ornithologist. From 1919 to 1952 he was Curator of the British Museum of Natural History (now called the Natural History Museum). He was chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1932 to 1935, having edited their Bulletin from 1914-1915 and was Vice President of the British Ornithologists Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He also wrote for Ibis

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.

Captain Cyril Diver was a civil servant and amateur naturalist. He became the first Director-General of the Nature Conservancy