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Born 1917; physics student of King's College London, c. 1936-1940; Hon Secretary and President of the Students' Union at King's, c. 1938-39.

Born, London, 1714; educated, educated privately at 'Darne' (Darenth), Kent; apprentice to Edward Nourse, assistant-surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1729-1736; admitted to the Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1736; lecturer on anatomy, 1753, master, 1765, Corporation of Surgeons; assistant-surgeon, 1744, surgeon, 1749, senior surgeon, 1765-1787, St Bartholomew's Hospital; introduced many improvements to surgery; became the leading surgeon of his time, and perhaps the earliest 'modern' surgeon; thrown from his horse, and suffered a compound fracture of the leg, 1756, that type of fracture becoming known as a 'Pott's fracture'; fellow of the Royal Society, 1764; instituted a course of lectures for the pupils at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1765; honorary fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1786; honorary member, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1787; Governor, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1787; died, 1788. Publications include: A Treatise on Ruptures (C Hitch & L Hawes, London, 1756); An Account of a particular kind of Rupture, frequently attendant upon children, and sometimes met with in adults; viz. that in which the intestine, or omentum, is found in the same cavity, and in contact with the testicle (London, 1757); Observations on that Disorder of the Corner of the Eye, commonly called Fistula Lachrymalis second edition (L Hawes & Co, London, 1763); Remarks on the disease commonly called a fistula in ano (L Hawes, London, 1765); A Treatise on the Hydrocele, or Watry Rupture, and other Diseases of the Testicle second edition (L Hawes, London, 1767); Observations on the nature and consequences of those injuries to which the head is liable from external violence, etc (L Hawes, London, 1768); Some few General Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations second edition (L Hawes, London, 1773); Chirurgical Observations relative to the Cataract, the polypus of the nose, the cancer of the scrotum, ... ruptures, and the mortification of the toes, etc (London, 1775); The Chirurgical Works of Percival Pott (London, 1775); Farther Remarks on the useless state of the lower limbs in consequence of a Curvature of the Spine, being a supplement to a former treatise on that subject (London, 1782); Observations on Chimney Sweeper's Cancer [London, 1810?].

Born in 1870; served in South Africa, 1899-1902; served with 3 Mounted Infantry Corps, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1900; Resident Magistrate, Heidelberg, 1900-1901; Resident Magistrate, Volksrust, 1901; Resident Magistrate, Krugersdorp, then Deputy Commissioner of Police, Pretoria, 1901-1902; stationed in UK with 2 Bn, 1 Royal Wilts Yeomanry, 1914-1917; joined 1 Bn, 1 Royal Wilts Yeomanry on Western Front, 1917; transferred to 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers; killed in action in Sep 1917.

Born in 1834; served in 8 Hussars in the Crimean War, 1853-1856, and in India, [1857]; County Councillor, Whiteparish division, Wiltshire County Council, [1891-1894]; established freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892]; died in 1918.

Born in 1866; Lt, 3 Bn, Wiltshire Regiment (Militia), 1883; joined 1 Bn, 1886; transferred to 7 Hussars, 1886; served in India, 1886-1895; ADC to Governor of Bombay, 1892-1895; served in South Africa, 1895-1906; Staff Captain, Natal 1896; Capt, 1898; Provost Marshal, South African Field Force, 1899-1902; Maj, 1901; Lt Col, 1911; commanded 7 Hussars, 1911-1915; served in India, 1911-1919; Col, 1914; commanded Jhansi Bde, 1915-1919; retired pay, 1921; noted amateur cricketer; died in 1938.

Born in 1874; mining engineer, New Mashonaland Development Company Ltd, Rhodesia, 1900-1901; died in 1937.

Born 1869; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1889; Lt, 1892; served Tirah Expedition, North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; Capt, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; awarded DSO, 1902; service with Somaliland Field Force, 1903-1904; served in Northern Nigeria, 1904; Maj, 1909; retired 1914; re-employed by Army, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Lt Col, 1915; Brevet Col, 1917; awarded CMG, 1917; temporary Maj Gen, 1917; awarded CB, 1918; General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; created KBE, 1919; Hon Maj Gen, 1920; retired 1920; died 1936.

born 1900; educated at Manchester University and postgraduate at London, Capetown and Oxford; Surgeon Lt Cdr, 1929; Royal Naval Hospital, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 1931-1934; Surgeon Cdr, 1934; Medical Officer's Promotion Course, 1935; Medical Officer in charge, Royal Naval Sick Quarters, Weihaiwei, northern China, 1937-1940; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; awarded OBE, 1941; Surgeon Capt, 1944; Medical Officer in charge of Royal Naval Hospitals Simonstown, South Africa, 1946, Portland, 1948 and Bermuda, 1950; Surgeon R Adm, 1954; Queen's Honorary Surgeon, 1954-1957; Surgeon R Adm in charge of Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, 1954-1957; retired 1957; awarded CB, 1957; died 1984.

Born in 1907; worked for shipbuilders Harland and Wolff Limited, Belfast and Liverpool, 1923-1934, and for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 1934-1939; Midshipman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1926; Sub Lt, 1929; Lt, 1930; Lt Cdr, 1938; served with anti-submarine groups in North Sea and Norway, 1939-1940; Commanding Officer, HMS GLOXINIA, North Atlantic and Mediterranean, 1940-1942; on staff of Flag Officer, Liverpool, HMS EAGLET, 1942-1943; Executive Officer, HMS DELHI, Mediterranean, 1943-1945; commanded HMS DELHI, 1945; resettlement and redeployment duties on staff of Cdr in Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, 1945-1946; returned to work at Imperial Chemical Industries, 1945; moved to Canada, 1950, and worked as a civil servant; entered Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, 1956; died in 1995.

Born, 1821; educated at home; after a brief period studying at King's College London, entered University College Oxford (of which his uncle, Frederick Charles Plumptre, was Master, 1836-1870) as a scholar; took a double first-class in mathematics and classics, 1844; elected to a fellowship at Brasenose; ordained by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, 1846; MA, 1847; resigned his fellowship on his marriage, 1847; for a period his religious views were influenced by his brother-in-law Frederick Denison Maurice, but later in life he rejected his conclusions; joined the staff of King's College London, where he introduced evening classes; chaplain, 1847-1868; professor of pastoral theology, 1853-1863; professor of exegesis, 1864-1881; took a leading role in promoting the higher education of women, and until 1877 a professor of Queen's College, Harley Street, where he was principal, 1875-1877; assistant preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1851-1858; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1863; Boyle lecturer, 1866; rector of Pluckley from 1869 and of Bickley from 1873; member of the Old Testament revision committee, 1869-1874; Grinfield lecturer and examiner at Oxford, 1872-1874; resigned his work in London on becoming Dean of Wells, 1881-1891; served not only the cathedral and the Theological College but the city of Wells and its hospital, almshouse and workhouse; died at Wells, 1891; buried in the cathedral cemetery. Publications: contributed to the Cambridge Bible , Speaker's Commentary , and Bible Educator ; wrote Christ and Christendom. The Boyle Lectures for 1866 (1867); Biblical Studies (1870); St Paul in Asia (1877); Popular Exposition of the Epistles to the Seven Churches (1877 and 1879); Movements in Religious Thought: Romanism, Protestantism, Agnosticism (1879); Theology and Life (1884); The Spirits in Prison, and other studies on Life after Death (1884 and 1885); Wells Cathedral and its Deans (1888); Life of Bishop Ken (1888). Verse: Lazarus and other poems (1864); Master and Scholar (1866); Things New and Old (1884); several hymns. Translated the plays of Sophocles (1865) and of Æschylus (1868); English version of Dante's work, The Divina Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri; with Biographical Introduction, Notes and Essays (volume i, 1886; volume ii, 1887).

Henry George Plimmer was born in 1856, in Melksham, Whitshire, the son of Dr George Plimmer. Educated at Devizes, and Shaw House School. Following the death of his father, and stepfather, Plimmer was employed as a clerk at the Coalbrookdale Company in Ironbridge, Shropshire. He abandoned a business career however, and found employment in 1878, as an unqualified assistant to Dr J H Galton, who had once been his father's assistant, at Norwood, London. He was a student at Guy's Hospital 1878-1883. He qualified LSA in 1882 and MRCS in 1883. In 1885, he became a partner of Drs Turner and Galton, but, retired from practice in 1892 to devote himself to bacteriology and research. From 1892 to 1894, Plimmer worked with Armand Ruffer at the College of Surgeons. Plimmer was appointed Pathologist to the Cancer Hospital in 1894, until 1898 when he became Bacteriologist to St Mary's Hospital, as well as Pathologist and Lecturer on Pathology. He resigned from St Mary's in 1902, to take up the direction of the Cancer Laboratories at the Lister Institute. He extended the sphere of his pathological work in 1907, taking up the studies of Pathologist to the Zoological Gardens until 1917. Published many papers relating to Cancer and trypanosomiasis in particular. He was the Chair of Comparative Pathology at Imperial College of Science and Technology from 1917-1918.Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1910; President of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1911-1912, served on many scientific committees, including the War Office Tetanus Committee, 1916, and later the Trench Fever Committee. He was also a member of the Sydenham District Medical Society, from 1887; Medical Research Club, 1894-1911; Physiological Society, 1894-1913; Linnean Society, Royal medical and Chirugical and Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal Institution; and Association of Economic Biologists. He married in 1887, Bertha Helena Aders, widow of Alfred Aders. He died on 22 Jun 1918. Publications: Numerous articles in the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, British Gynaecological Journal.

Born in 1885; educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Northumberland Fusiliers, 1905; served on North West Frontier, India, 1908; Capt, 1914; served in World War One, France and Belgium, 1914-1918; Bde Maj, 103 Infantry Bde, 1915-1916; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 21 Div, 1916-1917; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 2 Australian and New Zealand Corps and 22 Army Corps, 1917; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 37 Div, 1918-1920; Bde Maj, 12 Infantry Bde, 1 Eastern Command and Galway Bde, Irish Command, 1920-1922; Maj, 1924; Lt Col, 1930; Officer Commanding 2 Bn, Wiltshire Regt, 1930-1933; Col, 1933; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 3rd Div, Bulford, 1933-1934; Commander, 7 Infantry Bde, 1934-1938; ADC to the King, 1937-1938; Maj Gen, 1938; Commandant, Sudan Defence Force, 1938-1941; General Officer Commanding-in -Chief, East African Command, 1941-1945; Lt Gen, 1941; Col, Wiltshire Regt, 1942-1954; Gen, 1943; retired pay, 1945; died in 1975.

Born 1907; Rhodes scholar from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1929; forester in Colonial Forest Service, Tanganyika, East Africa; returned to UK, 1939; served 22 (EA) Infantry Bde, Abyssinia, 1940-1942, as platoon commander of the 1/6 (Tanganyika) King's African Rifles; Madagascar, 1942-1943; died 1996.

Born, 1918; educated, Portsmouth Southern Grammar School; bank clerk, 1935; served in Army, Second World War; surveyor, 1946; began writing, 1954; Information Officer, Atomic Energy Authority, 1961; Historical Consultant to the BBC series 'The Great War', 1963; editor, Purnell's History of the Second World War, 1964; editor in chief, Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War Two, 1967; editor in chief, Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, 1971; editor, Purnell's History of the First World War, 1969; editor, British History Illustrated, 1974-1978; consultant editor, The Military History of World War Two, 1986; died, 2006.

Served in World War Two with No 2 Inland Waterways and Port Construction Unit, Royal Engineers and was involved in the preparation of dossiers on enemy occupied ports for use by port construction and repair companies.

Born 1896; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 3 (Reserve) Bn, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 1914; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1916; served with Royal Flying Corps, 1916-1918; service with 34 Sqn, Royal Flying Corps, Western Front, 1917; served in Palestine, 1917-1918; awarded MC, 1918; transferred to RAF, 1918; relief of Diwaniyah, Iraq, 1921; RAF Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, 1925; service in Iraq, 1928; Wg Cdr, 1932; Air Staff Officer, Directorate of Operations and Intelligence, Department of the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Ministry, 1934-1937; Gp Capt, 1937; Air Attaché, Washington DC, USA, 1937-1940; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Air Officer Commanding Northern Ireland, 1941; Air Officer in charge of Administration, Middle East, 1941-1943; awarded CBE, 1942; awarded CB, 1943; Director General, War Organisation, Air Ministry, 1943-1945; Deputy Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia, 1945-1946; created KBE, 1946; Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia, 1946-1947; Inspector General, RAF, 1948; Member, Air Council for Supply and Organisation, 1948-1950; ACM, 1949; Head of Air Force Staff, British Joint Services Mission to the USA, 1950-1951; retired, 1951; created KCB, 1951; Chairman, Air League of the British Empire, 1955-1958; died 1980.

Born, India, 1914. 

Educated: Darlington Grammar School and King's College London; BSc in Botany, 1935. 

Taught at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, 1936-1940. 

World War Two, 1939-1945: joined Royal Armoured Corps, 1940; Technical Scientific Officer, Rocket Division, Ministry of Supply, 1943-1946. 

Defence, science and medical editor, Daily Express, 1946-1973. 

Assistant Editor, Daily Express, and Chief Defence Correspondent, Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1972-1979.

Publications:

Breeding of farm animals (Harmondsworth: New York: Penguin, 1946)

A study of fishes (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1947)

Into the atomic age (London: Hutchinson, 1947)

Spotlight on animals (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1950)

Evolution (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950)

co-author with Bernard Wicksteed, It's fun finding out (1950)

Sleep, and how to get more of it (London: Daily Express, 1954)

novel, Not with a bang (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965)

novel, The giantkiller (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1967)

novel, The penthouse conspirators (London: Joseph, 1970)

Sex in our time (London: Weidenheld & Nicholson, 1973)

novel, The skeleton at the Villa Wolkonsky (London: Joseph, 1975)

novel, The eye of the tornado (London: Joseph, 1976)

Inside story: a documentary of the pursuit of power (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1978)

novel, The four horses (London: Joseph, 1978)

novel, Dirty tricks (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1980)

Their trade is treachery (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1981)

novel, The private world of St John Terrapin: a novel of the Cafe Royal (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1982)

Too secret too long: the great betrayal of Britain's crucial secrets and the cover-up (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1984)

The secret offensive: active measures: a saga of deception, disinformation, subversion, terrorism, sabotage and assassination (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1985)

Traitors - the labyrinths of treason (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987)

A web of deception: the Spycatcher affair (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987)

novel, Contamination (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1989)

The truth about dirty tricks: from Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1991)

One dog and her man, by Dido (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1991)

autobiography, Pastoral symphony: a bumpkin's tribute to country joys (Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1993)

A box of chocolates, by Dido (London: Bantam, 1993)

Life's a bitch: a canine commentary on human affairs, by Dido (Shewsbury, Swan Hill, 1996)

Tight lines: the accumulated lore of a lifetime's angling (London: Robert Hale, 1997)

Treachery: betrayals, blunders and cover-ups: six decades of espionage (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2011)

autobiography, Dangerous to know (London: Biteback, 2014)

Born in 1904; educated at Taunton School and HMS CONWAY; Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), 1921; service with Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, 1921; Lt, 1928; commanded Royal Naval Reserve contingent, Armistice Day ceremony, London, 1930; Lt Cdr, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; appointed to command inshore minesweeping flotilla, 1940; commanded HMS VAN MEERLANT, 1940-1941; wounded and lost a leg when HMS VAN MEERLANT sunk by mine, Thames estuary, Jun 1941; served in Admiralty on Staff of Second Sea Lord and in the Combined Operations Division; Cdr, 1944; retired from Royal Naval Reserve, 1945; died 1996.

George Pickstock entered Guy's Hospital London as a pupil, May 1849.