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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Person · 1921-2021

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a member of the British royal family as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He was President of the Zoological Society of London for two decades and was appointed an honorary fellow in 1977.
Mitchison, Nicholas Avrion
Person · 1928-

Nicholas Avrion Mitchison is a British zoologist and immunologist. He was President of the Zoological Society of London 1989-1992
Chapple, John Lyon, Sir
Person · 1931-

Field Marshall Sir John Lyon Chapple is a retired British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1988-1992. He was President of the Zoological Society of London 1992-1994.
Beddington, John Rex, Sir
Person · 1945-

Sir John Rex Beddington is a British population biologist and Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 until 2013. He is the President of the Zoological Society of London.
Raffles, Thomas Stamford Bingley, Sir
Raffles, Thomas Stamford Bingley, Sir
Person · 1781-1826

Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was born in 1781 on board the ship Ann, off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles and Anne Raffles (nee Lyde). Raffles was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies (1811-1816), and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen (1818-1824). He was the founder of modern Singapore and the Straits Settlements. Raffles was heavily involved in the capture of the Indonesian island of Java from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. He wrote 'The History of Java'.

He was elected a member of the Linnaean Society on 5th February 1825. He was a founder and first president of the Zoological Society of London and the London Zoo.

Raffles died at Highwood House in Mill Hill, north London, on 5th July 1826, of apoplexy. He was survived by his second wife Sophia Hull and daughter Ella.