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Born in 1901; educated at St George's School, Harpenden and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; joined 3 Gurkha Rifles, [1923]; employed in Royal West African Frontier Force, 1928-1934; Staff Officer, Training Directorate, General HQ, India Command,1939; Instructor, Staff College, Quetta, 1940-1941; Bde Maj, Nowshera Bde, India, 1941-1942; worked in OperationsDirectorate, General HQ, India Command, 1942-1943, where he was closely involved in planning of Gen Orde Charles Wingate's first Chindit operation in Burma, 1943; Senior Administrative Assistant to Wingate, Special Force (Chindit) HQ, India Command, 1943-1944; killed in air crash, Burma, May 1944.

Born 1906; service with Territorial Army [1926-1927]; commissioned into Royal Artillery, 1927; service with 3 Light Battery, Royal Artillery, India, 1928-1931; Lt, 1930; served in India, [1931-1940]; service with 14 (Rajputana) Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery, India, 1935; service on North West Frontier, India, 1936-1937; Capt, 1938; Adjutant, 21 Mountain Regt, Royal Artillery,Peshawar, India, 1938-1940; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service in Greece, 1941; Commanding Officer, 74 Field Regt, Royal Artillery, 50 (Northumbrian) Div, Sicily, Jul-Aug 1943; awarded MC, 1943; Maj, 1944; temporary Lt Col, 1948; served with British Troops in Berlin, Germany, during Berlin airlift, 1948; awarded OBE [1948]; Lt Col, 1949; Commanding Officer, 62 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, 1951; Col, 1952; retired as Hon Brig, 1953; died 1988.

Born in 1901; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; served in Middle East, 1940-1944, and East Africa, 1944; Officer in Charge of Surgical Divs of No 62 General Hospital, Tobruk, Libya, 1941-1942; and Consulting Surgeon, 9 Army, East Africa and Southern Command; Brig, 1944; retired from Army, 1945, and went on to work as surgeon at St George's Hospital, London; Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, 1967-1972; died in 1984.

Born 1916; educated Brunswick Preparatory School, Hayward's Heath, 1926-1929; Uppingham School, 1930-1934; Sandhurst, 1934-1935; Lt, 2 Bn, Leicestershire Regt, 1936; service in Londonderry, 1936; Aldershot, 1936-1938; Palestine, 1938-1940, including night patrols in the Nablus region; Battalion Intelligence Officer, Acre, 1939; Western Desert, 1940-1941, including Sollum and Bardia, Dec 1940-Jan 1941; battle of Crete, May 1941; Syria, Jun-Sep 1941; Tobruk, Sep-Dec 1941; India, 1942-Aug 1943; Brigade Major, 16 Infantry Bde, 70 Div (subsequently renamed 3 Indian Div) Long Range Penetration (LRP) operations under Bernard Ferguson, Burma, 1943-1944; Brigade Major, 1 Parachute Bde, UK; Denmark to take the surrender of the German Forces, VE Day; instructor at the Joint Army/RAF Staff College, Haifa; commander, 3 Parachute Battalion in Germany; instructor at Mons Officer Cadet School; instructor at the Royal Navy Staff College; returned to the Leicesters in Iserlohn, 1953 and then on to the Sudan; Support Company Commander, Cyprus; staff appointments in GHQ, Nicosia; commander 5 Territorial Battalion, Leicester, 1959; British Military Staff, Washington, 1963-1965; retired, 1971; died, 2007.

Born at Verval, county Wicklow, Ireland, 1754; classically educated at schools in Dublin; obtained an appointment from the East India Company and left Gravesend, 1770; reached Bencoolen, Sumatra, 1771; served in Sumatra first as a sub-secretary and afterwards as principal secretary to the government; learnt Malayan; departed for England, 1779; became acquainted with Sir Joseph Banks, 1780; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1783; later became its treasurer and vice-president, often presiding during Banks' illness; elected fellow of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, 1784; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1785; an original member of the Royal Irish Academy, 1785; invested his savings and with his brother John established an East India agency business in Gower Street, London, 1785; honorary degree of DCL, Oxford, 1786; member and treasurer of the Royal Society Club, 1787; accepted the post of second secretary of the admiralty, 1795; member of the Literary Club, 1799; promoted to first secretary of the admiralty, 1804; resigned, 1807; suffered from apoplexy, 1833; died from an apoplectic attack, 1836; buried at the cemetery at Kensal Green, London. Publications include: The History of Sumatra (London, 1783, and later editions); Dictionary of the Malayan Language (London, 1812); The Travels of Marco Polo (1818), translated from the Italian; Numismata Orientalia (London, 1823-5); Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica et Orientalis: a Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts (London, 1827). His autobiography was edited and published by his widow Elizabeth as A Brief Memoir of ... William Marsden (London, 1838).

Born 1943; educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk, 1953-1961; student of Physiology and Zoology at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, 1962-1965; PhD London Hospital Medical College, 1965-1968; Lecturer in Physiology at Queen Elizabeth, 1968-1985, and at King's College London, 1985-1986, following the merger between QEC and KCL; Senior Lecturer in Physiology at King's, 1986-1991; Alumnus Relations Officer at King's, 1986-1991; moved to Australia and became Head of the Division of Anatomy and Physiology in the Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, and is currently Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences; author of numerous studies on haemostasis, fibrinolysis and many aspects of circulation and the mechanism of blood clotting, including Fibrinolysis (London, 1981). Also the author of The history of Queen Elizabeth College (London, 1986).

Born 1933; educated Wellington College, Berkshire, 1947-1952, and Wadham College, Oxford University, 1954-1957; served with the King's African Rifles in Kenya, 1953-1954; successively Assistant Lecturer, 1959-1962, Lecturer, 1962-1970, Reader, 1970-1978, and Professor, 1978-1980, in the History Department, King's College London; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1980-1993; Member of the History Working Group, National Curriculum, 1989-1990; Vice President, Royal Historical Society, 1987-1991; Editor, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History , 1975-1981; Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1993.

Publications: Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813 (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1968); editor of The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); The impeachment of Warren Hastings (Oxford University Press, London, 1965); The East India Company (Routledge, London, 1968); editor of The Oxford history of the British Empire (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998); Imperial Britain (University of London, London, [1994]); editor of The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996); 'A free though conquering people': Britian and Asia in the eighteenth century. An inaugural lecture in the Rhodes Chair of Imperial History, delivered at King's College London (London, 1981); Trade and conquest: studies on the rise of British dominance in India (Variorum, Aldershot, 1993); India and Indonesia during the Ancien Regime (Brill, Leiden, 1989); Oriental studies (Clarendon, Oxford, 1986); Bengal: the British bridgehead (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987); The great map of mankind. British perceptions of the world in the age of enlightenment with Glyndwr Williams (Dent, London, 1982); The writings and speeches of Edmund Burke Vol. V (Clarendon, Oxford, 1981); Text of the talk given on 21 October 1982 by Professor P. J. Marshall on Thomas Hyde: stupor mundi (Hakluyt Society, London, [1983]).

Born 1865; educated Repton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Lt in Sherwood Foresters(Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt), 1886; Capt, 1893; served North West Frontier, India, with Malakand Frontier Force (attached to The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)) and Tirah Expeditionary Force (with Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt)), 1897-1898; Brevet Maj, 1900; served Second Boer War, South Africa, with mounted infantry and in command of amobile column, 1900-1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1904; Assistant Commandant, School of Instruction for Mounted Infantry, Longmoor, Hampshire, 1911; Lt Col, 1912; served World War One, 1914-1918; Commander 1 Bn Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt), France, 1914-1915; temporary Brig, 1915; Commander 87 Infantry Bde, 29 Div, Gallipoli, 1915-1916; successively commanded 42, 29 and 53 Divs, Gallipoli, where he was present at original landing and final evacuation, 1915-1916; Maj Gen, 1915; Commander 27 Div in Salonika, Greece, 1916; temporary Lt Gen, 1916-1918; Commander 3 Indian Army Corps, Mesopotamia, 1916-1917;General Officer Commanding in Chief, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919; Lt Gen, 1919; General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, India, 1919-1923; retired pay, 1924; Col of Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt), 1930-1935;died 1939. Publications: Memories of Four Fronts, (Ernest Benn, London, 1929).

Trained as Greek interpreter at the British Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus, 1957; attached to Special Branch of the Cyprus Police and later 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Cyprus, 1957-1958.