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Born in 1905; educated at Cheltenham College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in India, 1936-1937; Staff Capt, China, 1937-1939; Staff Capt, Hong Kong, 1939; served in France, 1939-1940, Iceland, 1940-1941, and France and Belgium, 1944; Col, HQ 21 Army Group, Palestine, 1946-1947; served inEast Africa, 1947-1949; Lt Col, 1949; Commander, Royal Engineers, Sussex and Surrey, 1950-1951; honorary Col and retired, 1951; died in 1981.

Born 1917; educated at Ryde School, Isle of Wight; joined the RAF as Acting Pilot Officer, 1935; No 2 Flying Training School, 23 Group, Digby, Lincolnshire, 1935-1936; served with 54 (Fighter) Sqn, 11 (Fighter) Group, Hornchurch, Essex, 1936-[1940]; Flying Officer, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Sqn Ldr [1940]; Commanding Officer, 222 (Natal) Sqn, Coltishall,Norfolk, 1941; awarded DFC, 1941; acting Wg Cdr (Flying), North Weald, Essex, 1941; served in Middle East, 1942-1945; commanded RAF units on Greek island of Kos, 1943; commanded defence of Antimachia airfield during German invasion of Kos, Oct 1943; awardedDSO, 1943; acting Gp Capt, 1944; commanded 251 Wing, Naples, Italy, 1944-1945; Wg Cdr, 1947; served at Central Fighter Establishment, West Raynham, Norfolk, and US Air Force Proving Ground, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA; Gp Capt, 1954; commanded RAF Manby, Lincolnshire, [1954]-1960; retired 1960; employed with an engineering firm, 1960-1967; Assistant Secretary ofthe Baltic Exchange, London, 1967-1977; died 1997.

Born 1931; joined Army as National Serviceman, 1949; 2nd Lt 1950; joined Royal Artillery, Lt 1952; temp Capt 1954; Capt 1958; Maj 1965; passed Staff College, 1966; MBE 1970; Lt Col 1971; Col 1978; Defence Attaché, British Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979-1982; Project Director, 'Falklands Pilgrimage', 1983; died 1999.

Born in 1919; served in RAF, [1939-1965]; Flight Lt, 1942; died in 1985.

Born, 1890; educated at Westminster School (scholar); Oriel College Oxford (scholar); 1st Class Moderations, 1911; 2nd Class Literae Humaniores, 1914; BA, 1914; MA, 1915; Assistant Master, Marlborough College, 1914-1918; Westminster School, 1919-1921; Rector of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, 1921-1929; temporary Junior Assistant, Air Ministry, 1941-1943; temporary Senior Assistant, Foreign Office, 1943-1945; Lecturer in Department of Classics and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Arts, King's College London, 1945-1957; Chairman, English Association, 1959-1964; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; died, 1972. Publications: with B V F Brackenbury, Elementary French Exercises (1917); Kelvinside Academy, 1878-1928 ; Gibbon's Journal (1929); Edward Gibbon (1937); London is London (1949); Virgil and the English Augustans (a paper read to the Virgil Society, 1952); Norman Douglas, A Selection from his Works (1955); A Century of Writers, 1855-1955 (1955); Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (1955); abridged Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1960); Trends in English Pronunciation (1960). Contributor to: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature ; Encyclopaedia Britannica . Novels: Twice Shy (1933); This Sweet Work (1935). Translations: Natalia Ginzburg, Voices in the Evening (1963) and Family Sayings (1967); Ercole Patti, Roman Chronicle (1965).

Born in Southampton, 1732, graduated as a doctor of medicine, Aberdeen, 1775; licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1786; practised midwifery; lectured at Guy's Hospital and at the anatomy theatre he and John Haighton ran in St. Saviour's churchyard, Southwark, died, 1801 in Bath, Somerset.

Lowndes was born in Staffordshire, 1892. His first job was as a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Stafford Technical School. In 1909, he moved to Canada where he worked with Prof R B Macallum in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto. On the outbreak of war, he joined the 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force, after being taken prisoner at Ypres, 1915, he spent three years as a prisoner of war in Germay. After his release in 1918, he studied Chemistry in Delft, Holland, under Jan Boesekin. He married C A V Broydon. Lowndes was for some time Science Master at Rugeley Grammar School, Staffordshire, before taking up a position in 1921 as Research Assistant to Huia Onslow. In 1923, he was appointed Demonstrator in the Department of Chemistry at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, subsequently becoming the Senior Lecturer in Chemistry. He retired in 1957.