Paul Anton Marie Hubert Graf Wolff Metternich zur Grach was a Prussian and German ambassador in London and Constantinople. He was a prominent German opponent of Ottoman actions during the Armenian genocide
Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalogist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was the son of Henri Milne-Edwards. Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes in 1876. He became the director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1891, devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration. In 1881 he undertook a survey of the Gulf of Gascony with Léopold de Folin and worked aboard the Travailleur and the Talisman on trips to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Azores. For this, he received a gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society
Alfred Milner was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s. From December 1916 to November 1918, he was one of the most important members of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's War cabinet