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Born in 1901; educated at Cathedral School, Worcester and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt), 1921; Lt, 1923; Adjutant, Territorial Army, 1928-1932; Capt, 1936; Maj, 1938; Bde Maj, 1938-1940; served in France, 1939-1940, and Middle East, 1941-1945; Lt Col, 1941; Col, 1946; Col, Sherwood Foresters, 1947-1958; Chief of Staff, Northern Command, 1951-1953; Assistant Chief of Staff (Organisation and Training), SHAPE, 1953-1955; Commandant, Joint Services Staff College, 1956-1958; retired, 1958; Controller, Army Benevolent Fund, 1960-1971; died in 1982.

Margaret Mary White, born on 7 June 1914; attended St George's College for Civil Service and Secretarial Training, formerly the Civil Service Department of King's College, London; passed the Civil Service Examinations for Female Telegraphists, 1929; Civil Service Examinations for Sorting Assistants, 1929 and Civil Service Examinations for Writing Assistants, 1930; worked as a telegraphist in the General Post Office from 1930; retired from her career in 1937 after marrying Frank Arthur Smith; died on 29 January 1979.

Born 1901; Highgate School (Senior Foundationer); Geology student, King's College London, 1918-1921; BSc, 1921, PhD, 1927, DSc, 1936; entered British Museum (Natural History), 1922; Deputy Keeper of Department of Palaeontology (formerly of Geology) at British Museum, 1938-1955; Keeper of Department of Palaeontology at British Museum, 1955-1966; Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Reading, from 1981; geological expeditions to Madagascar, 1929-1930, and Spitsbergen, 1939; temporary Principal, Ministry of Health, 1940-1945; Honorary Secretary of the Ray Society, 1946-1951, Vice-President, 1951-1954, President, 1956-1959; member of the Council of the Geological Society, 1949-1953, Vice-President, 1957-1960; President, Linnean Society, 1964-1967; member of the Council of the Zoological Society, 1959-1963; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1956; CBE 1960; died 11 January 1985.

Publications: Eocene fishes from Nigeria (London, 1926); The vertebrate faunas of the English eocene (London, 1931); Fossil fishes of Sokoto Province (1934); The vertebrate faunas of the lower old red sandstone of the Welsh Borders. Pteraspis Leathensis White, a dittonian zone-fossil (British Museum, London, 1950); Australian arthrodires (London, 1952); The eocene fishes of Alabama (Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, 1956); The old red sandstone of Brown Clee Hill and the adjacent area. II. Palaeontology (London, 1961); The fossil fishes of the terraces of Lake Bosumtwi, Ashanti .

Born 17 May 1907; BSc General, Chemistry, Botany and Physiology, King's College London, 1926-1929; member of King's College London Women's Boating Club; undertook research work on possible uses of seaweed, 1940-1945; after the war helped build up the research department of the Central Middlesex Hospital with Sir Francis Avery Jones, Physician at the Gastroenterological Department at the Hospital, and established a library of medical papers, supported by grants from the Medical Research Council; Librarian of the Gastroenterology Unit at the Hospital; retired 1972; died 1987.

Education, BSc sandwich course in Sociology and Social Administration, University of Southampton, 1972-1977; nursing training at St Thomas's Hospital, 1973-1975; MSc at South Bank Polytechnic, 1978-1980; PhD Nursing Studies, University of London, 1995; work at Department of Nursing Studies, Chelsea College, 1980-1985; King's College London, 1985-2002; Senior Lecturer, 1989; Professor of Community Nursing, 1992; specialist expertise in chronic disease care for people living at home. Publications: Health visiting and health experience of infants in three areas (London, 1985); edited Research in preventive community nursing care. Fifteen studies in health visiting (Chichester, 1986); Caring for children. Towards partnership with families (London, 1991); edited Health in the inner-city (London, 1991); Alison While, Julia Roberts and Joanne Fitzpatrick, A comparative study of outcomes of pre-registration nurse education programmes (London, 1995); Alison While, Christina Citrone and Jocelyn Cornish, Bereaved parents' views of caring for a child with a life-limiting incurable disorder (London, 1996). See also numerous articles and reports on the subject of nursing and palliative care.

Born in 1915; educated at St Helen's College, Southsea and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Royal Ulster Rifles, 1935; served in Palestine, 1937-1939; Lt, 1938; Adjutant, 1940-1941; General Staff Officer Grade 3, Canadian Corps HQ, 1941; Bde Maj, 38 Irish Bde, 1941-1942; Capt, 1943; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Middle East Land Forces, 1942-1943; Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Sudan, 1943; Assistant Quartermaster General, General HQ, Middle East Land Forces, 1943-1944; served with British Military Mission to Albania, 1943-1944, and 2nd Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, 1944-1945; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Airborne Division, Palestine, 1945-1948; Maj, 1948; Military Assistant to Adjutant General to the Forces, War Office, 1949-1950; General Staff Officer Grade 1, UK Services Liaison Staff, Australia, 1951-1952; General Staff Officer Grade 1 and Col, General Staff, HQ Northern Army Group and HQ, British Army of the Rhine, 1954-1957; Lt Col, 1958; Col, General Staff, British Army of the Rhine; commanded 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Cyprus, 1958-1959; commanded 39 Infantry Bde Group, Northern Ireland, 1960-1962; Chief of Staff, 1 (British) Corps, British Army of the Rhine, 1962-1963; General Officer Commanding 2 Div, 1964-1966; Chief of Staff, Contingencies Planning, SHAPE, 1966-1969; Chief of Staff, HQ, British Army of the Rhine, 1969-1971; retired, 1971; died in 1990.

Born in 1917; educated St Helens College, Hants; Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, 1935; Bomber Command, 1937-1940; Fighter and Coastal Commands, 1940-1945; Royal Air Force and US Army Staff Colleges, 1934-1944; Cabinet Office, 1944-1945; Directing Staff, Royal Air Force Staff College, 1945-1946; Far East Air Force, 1947-1949; Directing Staff, Joint Services Staff College, 1949-1951; Bomber Command, 1951-1953; Air Ministry, 1953-1957; Assistant Commandant, Royal Air Force College, 1957-1959; Officer Commanding, RAF Laarbruch, 1959-1960; Imperial Defence College, 1961; Ministry of Defence, 1961-1963; Senior Air Staff Officer, Headquarters, RAF Germany, 1963-1966; Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operational Requirements), Ministry of Defence, 1966-1967; Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, 1967-1968; Commander, Far East Air Force, 1969-1970; Air Member for Supply and Organisation, Ministry of Defence, 1970-1973; Controller, Aircraft, Ministry of Defence Procurement Executive; 1973-1975; retired 1975; died in 2009.

Born in 1915; educated at Rugby School and Christ Church College, Oxford; Barrister, Grey's Inn, 1938; served in World War Two with Royal Artillery (Territorial Army); served in Italy, 1944-1945; Lt Col, 1946; Barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1946; Deputy High Court Judge (Chancery Div), 1972-1989; died in 1992.

Born Gloucester, 1802; moved to London, 1806; school in Vere Street, London, 1813; placed with uncle Charles, musical instrument maker, Strand, London, 1816; worked under father, William, musical instrument maker, 1818-1823; early demonstrations of experiments into acoustics and the transmission of sound, 1821; first paper published on 'New experiments in sound', in Annals of philosophy , 1823; inherited musical instrument business belonging to uncle, Charles, 1823; relocated business to Conduit Street, London, 1829; invented kaleidophone, 1826-1827; Michael Faraday delivers first lecture on sound on behalf of Wheatstone, Royal Institution, London, 1828; Wheatstone announces invention of concertina, 1830; invents stereoscope, 1830-1832; experiments to measure velocity of electricity, 1830-1837; Professor of Experimental Philosophy, King's College London, 1834-1875; work on electricity generation, [1834-1850]; lectures on sound at King's College London, 1836; Fellow of Royal Society, 1836; invents constant cell battery, [1836]; first patent on electric telegraph with William Fothergill Cooke, 1837; first public demonstration of stereoscope, Royal Society, 1838; installs five needle telegraph, Paddington to West Drayton, London, 1838-1839; work on improvements to electric telegraph, [1840-1845]; high point of work on polarisation of light, [1840-1870]; 'Wheatstone Bridge' invented, 1843; conducts earliest submarine telegraph cable experiment in Swansea Bay, 1844; invents iron core galvanometer, 1845; assists work of parliamentary Select Committee on Ordnance concerning electrical detonation devices, 1855; perfects first practical ABC telegraph, 1858; establishes Universal Private Telegraph Company, 1861; with Carl Wilhelm Siemens invents self-excited generator, 1867; knighted, 1868; died 1875.

Publications: The scientific papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone (London, 1879).

Born 1883; educated at Wellington; served in World War One, 1914-1918 with Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regt; served on Western Front, 1915-1918; awarded MC, 1916; Capt, 1916; awarded DSO, 1917; temporary Lt Col, 1917-1918; Commanding Officer, 17 (Service) Bn, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt), 1917-1918; temporary Brig Gen, 1918- 1919; General Officer Commanding 122 Bde, 41 Div, 1918-1919; re-employed by Army as Lt Col, 1940-1946; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Officer Commanding troops on transport ships, notably RMS QUEEN MARY, and Inspector of Transports with rank of Col, 1940-1946; survivor of sinking of HM Transport EMPRESS OF CANADA by Italian submarine LEONARDO DA VINCI, off Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1943; died 1974.

Born, 1919; 1 Rangers King's Royal Rifle Corps; served Crete 1941; Prisoner of War, Germany, escaped Apr 1945. Publications: Part 2 orders: WWII poems (Salamandar Imprint, London, 1999); The horses of Falaise: poems on the experiences of a fighting soldier in World War II (Salamandar Imprint, London, 1975).

Sidney George West was born 28th March 1909; educated at Norbury College; took matriculation examination for King's College London, 1923; educated at King's College London, 1926-1932, notably studied Intermediate BA, Latin, Greek, English and Ancient History 1926-1927; second and third year English and Latin 1928-1929; MA in English, 1930-1932; achieved George Smith Studentship 1929, First Class Honours English and University Postgraduate Travelling Studentship 1930.

West worked as a part time assistant lecturer in the Department of English, King's College London, 1932-1933; lectured in English at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1934; lectured and became Head of Department of Portuguese, King's College London, 1936-1941; Director of the British Institute of Studies, Lisbon, 1941; Director, Students' Department, British Council, 1952. Awarded an OBE (Civil Division) in 1937. Died 1987.

Publications: The new corporative state of Portugal: an inaugural lecture delivered at King's College, London, the 15th February, 1937 (Lisbon, S P N Books, 1937); The new corporative state of Portugal: an inaugural lecture delivered at King's College, London, the 15th February, 1937 (London, New Temple Press, 1937); A projecçào de 'Os Lusíadas' através das traduçòes inglesas / (confer. Tr. de C. Estorninho. Separata da revista Bracara Augusta) (Braga, 1973).

Born 9 May 1921; Geology student, King's College London, 1939-1942; BSc Special, First class honours, Geology (Geography), 1941; Research Student, Geology, King's College London, 1941-1942; evacuated to Bristol, 1943; undertook war work during World War Two.

Born in 1912; joined RAF in 1935; No 15 Sqn, RAF Abingdon, 1935-1938; Flying Officer, 1938; 103 Sqn, 1938; took part in bombing raids in North West Europe, 1939-1940; captured by Germans and held as POW in Germany, 1940-1945; Commanding Officer, 213 Fighter Sqn, Cyprus, 1946-1947; Movements Department, HQ Middle East, 1947; Senior Administration Officer, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1947-1949; Senior Administrative Officer, RAF Duxford; retired from RAF, 1950, and started a career in farming; died in 1992.

Born in 1910; educated at Charterhouse School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1930; Lt, 1933; Capt, 1938; Adjutant, 1939-1940; Bde Maj, Malta, 1941; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Malta, 1941-1943; Staff College, Camberley, 1943-1944; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, later Assistant Quartermaster General, SHAEF, 1944-1945; General Staff Officer Grade 1, later Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, HQ 21 Army Group, 1945; Assistant Quartermaster General, British Army of the Rhine, 1944-1946; Assistant Quartermaster General, HQ Southern Command, 1948-1951; British Army of the Rhine, 1951-1952; Col on Staff of SHAPE, 1952-1953; Command of 22 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Germany, 1953-1955; Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office, 1955-1958; Commander, 33 Anti-Aircraft Bde, 1958-1960; Commandant, School of Artillery, 1960-1962; ADC to the Queen, 1961-1962; Secretary, County of London Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, 1962-1968, and Greater London Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, 1968-1974; died in 1985.

Born, 1925; 36 Div, US Army, Florida, France and Italy, 1943-1945; one time War Studies student, King's College London.

Pupil, St Thomas's Hospital, 1933-1935; applied for the position of Physician to the General (Public) Dispensary, Bishop's Court, 1845, and also to the position of Assistant Physician at St Thomas, Hospital, 1849, the latter application was unsuccessful. Publications: Observations relating to the science and art of Medicine , London, 1851

Richard Weekes was born in 1751, the son of Richard Weekes of Shoreham. He was admitted as a pupil at Guy's Hospital, London in 1773. He married in 1777Charity Hampton (1756-1786). In 1791, he married Elizabeth Peckham (1791-1802) Hampton Weekes was born in 1780, the eldest son of Richard Weekes, a Sussex doctor, and his wife Charity Hampton. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School from1791-1796, before returning home to learn the trade of surgeon-apothecary. He furthered his studies at St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he was pupil to Richard Whitfield, Hospital Apothecary, from 1801 to 1803. He practiced in Brighton, before returning to the family home at Hurst around 1810. He married in 1906, Sarah Borer (died 1829), and in 1836, Phyllia Ellis. He retired to Brighton in 1831 aftter selling the family home to his son George, also a medical practitioner. He died in 1855. Richard Weekes was born in 1751, the son of Richard Weekes of Shoreham. He was admitted as a pupil at Guy's Hospital, London in 1773. He married in 1777Charity Hampton (1756-1786). In 1791, he married Elizabeth Peckham (1791-1802). Hampton Weekes was born in 1780, the eldest son of Richard Weekes, a Sussex doctor, and his wife Charity Hampton. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School from1791-1796, before returning home to learn the trade of surgeon-apothecary. He furthered his studies at St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he was pupil to Richard Whitfield, Hospital Apothecary, from 1801 to 1803. He practiced in Brighton, before returning to the family home at Hurst around 1810. He married in 1906, Sarah Borer (died 1829), and in 1836, Phyllia Ellis. He retired to Brighton in 1831 aftter selling the family home to his son George, also a medical practitioner. He died in 1855. Richard Weekes (junior) was born in 1783, the second son of Richard Weekes, a Sussex doctor, and his wife Charity Hampton. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School between 1795 and 1797, after which he assisted his father in his surgeons practice, succeeding his brother Hampton as pupil to Richard Whitfield, Apothecary, St Thomas's Hospital, London, in 1803. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeon, 1804. He returned to Hurst where he practiced his trade as well as engaging in the collection of archaeological artefacts. He died in 1847. Mary Ann Weekes was born in 1781, the eldest daughter of Richard Weekes, a Sussex doctor, and his wife Charity Hampton. In 1811, she married Nathaniel Borrer. She died in 1854. Grace Weekes | was born in 1784, the second daughter of Richard Weekes, a Sussex doctor, and his wife Charity Hampton. She never married, and died in 1834. Fanny Weekes was born in 1792, the daughter of Richard Weekes, a Sussex doctor, and his second wife Elizabeth Peckham. She died in 1823.

Born 1898; educated at Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire; served in World War One, 1914-1918; served with Inns of Court Regt, Officer Training Corps, Territorial Force, 1915-1917; commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force, and served on Western Front, 1917-1918; Lt, 1919; service with 65 (8 London) Howitzer Bde, Territorial Army, 1920-1924; qualified as chartered accountant, 1922; freeman, City of London, 1922; established Derek Webster and Company, Chartered Accountants, 1923; Inns of Court Regt, Territorial Army, 1924-1928; served World War Two, 1939-1945; Capt, 1939; served with 53 (London) Medium Regt, Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force, France, 1939-1940; evacuated from Dunkirk, 1940; commanded 210 Battery, 53 (London) Medium Regt, Royal Artillery, 1940-1941; on staff, South Eastern Command, 1942-1943; Chief Statistical Officer, Headquarters, 21 Army Group, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; retired from Army, 1946; Hon Lt Col, 1946; Honorary Treasurer, St Marylebone Conservative Association, 1946-1948; Vice Chairman, Fulham and Kensington Group Hospital Management Committee, 1948-1952; London County Councilor, 1949-1952; Honorary Treasurer, Hemel Hempstead Constituency Conservative and Unionist Association, 1950-1955; Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, 1956; Honorary Treasurer, National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases, 1966; retired, 1976; died 1983.

Born 1883; educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, Winchester College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 1901; served in the Second Boer War, South Africa, with 2 Bn, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 1901-1902; service in India with 2 Bn, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 1903-1908, including Bazar Valley campaign, North West Frontier, 1908; Lt, 1904; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1910; visited Russia to learn Russian language, 1911; acting Capt, 1912; General Staff Officer 3, Russian Section, Directorate of Military Operations, War Office, 1912-1914; Capt, 1913; service in World War One, 1914-1918; appointed Bde Maj, 9 Infantry Bde, 3 Div, 2 Corps, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, 1914; served on Western Front, 1914-1916, seriously wounded and awarded MC, Ypres, Belgium, 1915; General Staff Officer 2, 64 (Highland) Div, Territorial Force, UK, 1915; General Staff Officer 2, General Headquarters, France, 1915-1916; Maj, 1916; temporary Lt Col, 1916; British Military Representative to Russian Gen Grand Duke Nicholas (Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov), Commander-in-Chief and Governor, Caucasus, 1916-1917; Brevet Lt Col, 1917; Liaison Officer between Gen Sir William Robert Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding in Chief Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917-1918; Staff Officer, Allied Supreme War Council, Versailles, France, 1918; Brig Gen General Staff, 20 Corps, 1918-1919; awarded CMG, 1919; Brig Gen General Staff, Egypt and Palestine, 1919-1920; service with 2 Bn, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Germany, 1921; Col, 1921; Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Department, War Office, 1921-1923; General Staff Officer 1, Military Operations 1, Operations Directorate, War Office, 1923-1926; placed on half pay, 1926; General Staff Officer 1, 3 Div, UK, 1926-1930; temporary Brig, 1930; commanded 6 Infantry Bde, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1930-1934; Aide de Camp to HM King George V, 1932-1933; Maj Gen, 1933; placed on half pay, 1934-1935; awarded CB, 1935; General Officer Commanding 2 Div, Aldershot, 1935-1937; Head of British Military Delegation to observe Red Army manoeuvres, Minsk, USSR, 1936; General Officer Commanding, Palestine and Transjordan, 1937-1938; Lt Gen, 1938; General Officer Commanding in Chief Southern Command, 1938-1939; Lees Knowles Lecturer, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1939; created KCB, 1939; Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 1939-1941; Gen, 1940; appointed GCB, 1941; Commander-in-Chief, India, 1941-1943; Aide de Camp General to HM King George VI, 1941-1943; Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command, 1942; FM, 1943; appointed GCSI and GCIE, and created Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, 1943; Privy Councillor, 1943; Viceroy and Governor General of India, 1943-1947; Chancellor of Aberdeen University, 1945-1950; Honorary Col, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 1946-1950; created 1st Earl Wavell, 1947; High Steward of Colchester, Essex, 1947-1950; Constable of the Tower of London, 1948-1950; Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, 1949; Governor, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, 1949-1950; died 1950.

Publications: Tsar Nicholas II by Andrei Georgievich Elchaninov, translated by Archibald Percival Wavell (Hugh Rees, London, 1913); The Palestine campaigns (Constable, London, 1928); Allenby: a study in greatness (Harrap, London, 1940); Generals and Generalship. The Lees Knowles Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939 (The Times, London, 1941); Allenby in Egypt (Harrap, London, 1943); The war in the Far East. Address...at a meeting of the Study Committees of the Empire Parliamentary Association...1943 (Printed for private circulation, London, 1943); Other men's flowers. An anthology of poetry compiled by A P Wavell (Jonathan Cape, London, 1944); Allenby: soldier and statesman (Harrap, London, 1946); Speaking Generally. Broadcasts, orders and addresses in time of war, 1939-1943 (Macmillan, London, 1946); The good soldier (Macmillan, London, 1948); Speeches by Earl Wavell. From 26th October 1943 to 21st March 1947 (New Delhi, India, 1948); The triangle of forces in civil leadership (WalkerTrust Lectures on Leadership, Oxford University Press, London, 1948); Minerva's owl or education in the Army (Haldane Memorial Lecture, London, 1948); Arms and the man [Presidential address delivered to the Virgil Society, 1948] (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1949); National and international history (Stevenson Memorial Lecture, Oxford University Press, London, 1949); Soldiers and soldiering, or Epithets of war, compiled by Maj Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell (Jonathan Cape, London, 1953).