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Born in 1906; educated at Marlborough College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and King's College, Cambridge; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1926; Lt, 1927; served in India, 1928-1934, including Mohmand Campaign, 1933; Capt, 1936; served in UK, 1937-1939 and France, 1939-1940; Commander, Royal Engineers, 1 Airborne Div, 1942; served in North Africa, 1943, Italy, 1943, North West Europe, 1944-1945, and India, 1946-1947; publication of Memoirs of a junior officer (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1951); Commander, 63 Gurkha Infantry Bde, Malaya, 1952-1955; Brig, 1955; publication of Red shadow over Malaya (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1955); Commander, Royal Engineers, Egypt, 1956; publication of Life in the Army today (Cassell and Co, London, 1957; retired in 1958; Honorary Col, Parachute Engineer Regt, 1959-1968; Honorary Col, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1964-1968; died in 1991.

Educated at St John's College Cambridge and at Guy's Hospital. Obtained BA Cambridge, MB BCh Camb 1895, FRCS Eng 1902. Entered Guy's Hospital, Sep 1891.

Born in 1902; educated at St Edward's College, Liverpool and Liverpool University; qualified as a dental surgeon, 1923; worked in private practice, 1923-1926; Liverpool University Officers' Training Corps, 1921-1925; Cadet Corporal, Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry, 1925-1926; served with 106 (Lancashire Hussars) Yeomanry Regt, Royal Horse Artillery, 1926-1941; served in Palestine, Western Desert, Greece, Crete, and Syria, 1940-1942; commanded 106 Regt in UK, 1937-1940, Palestine, 1940, Western Desert, 1940 and Greece, 1941, and Crete, 1941, and 60 Field Regt, Royal Artillery in Syria, 1941, and Western Desert, 1941-1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, 7 Indian Div, India, 1942, and Burma, 1943-1945; commanded 7 Indian Div, 1945; North West Frontier, India,1942; Burma, 1943-1945; Commander, Royal Artillery, 42 (Lancashire) Infantry Div (Territorial Army), 1947-1950; Chief Dental Officer, Cheshire County Council, 1957-1968; died in 1990.

John Sebastian Helmcken was born at Whitechapel, London, 1824; educated at St George's German and English School, 1828; apprentice to Dr Graves to train as a chemist and druggist, 1839-1841; student, Guy's Hospital, 1844; first prize for Practical Chemistry and second prize for Materia Medica, 1845; Licentiate of the Apothecaries Company, 1847; won one of the two Pupils Physical prizes; Ship's Surgeon with the Hudson's Bay Company, 1847; made voyages to Hudson's Bay and Bombay, India; admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons, 1848; surgeon for the Hudson's Bay Company emigrants, Vancouver Island, 1850; Hudson's Bay Company surgeon to Fort Rupert in May 1850; appointed magistrate in 1850; maintained private practice in Victoria; member of the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island for Esquimalt and Victoria, 1856; Speaker of the Assembly, 1856-1866; elected as a member for Esquimalt/Metchosin, 1860; President of the Board of Directors for the Royal Jubilee Hospital, 1862-1872, as well as serving as Doctor to the Jail; Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1863-1870; Surgeon, Hudson's Bay Company at Victoria, 1863; elected to the Legislative Council of British Columbia for Victoria/Esquimalt, 1866; re-elected to the Legislative Council, 1868; one of three negotiators at Ottawa to negotiate British Columbia's entry into Canada; appointed to the Executive Council of British Columbia, 1869; retired from politics, 1871; continued practicing medicine as physician to the jail until retiring, 1910; President, British Columbia Medical Association, 1885; died, 1920. Publications include: The reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken edited by Dorothy Blakey Smith (University of British Columbia Press [1975]); To the electors of Esquimalt and Metchosin District. gentlemen, the Legislative Assembly has been dissolved, a general election will shortly ensue [1863?]; To the electors of Esquimalt and Metchosin District. fellow colonists having received an address signed by several of the electors in our district, requesting me again to become a candidate for your suffrage etc [1863?].

Born 1914; educated Roslyn public schools, Swarthmore College, and Columbia University; taught political science at Columbia, Barnard, Princeton and Marshall Universities; research assistant to Judge Samuel Rosenman and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt's public papers; section chief, Bureau of the Census, 1940; personnel officer, Office for Emergency Management, 1941; administrative analyst, United States Bureau of the Budget, in 1942 and 1946; entered the United States Army in 1942 as a private in the Infantry; commissioned a second lieutenant, Armored Force, in 1943; assigned to European Theater of Operations as combat historian in 1944, where he interrogated German prisoners of war; special assistant to President Truman 1949-1953; associate director of American Political Science Association at Washington, D.C., 1953-1956; research director, presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; administrative aide to Senator John A. Carroll of Colorado in 1957; moved to Huntington, W.Va., in 1957 to teach at Marshall University; delegate Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1977); host of a daily talk show and a writer for a weekly newspaper column; science consultant, House Committee on Science and Technology, 1980-1982; taught at the University of Charleston and Marshall University, 1981-1984; elected secretary of state of West Virginia in 1984; died 2016.

Publications: Author of Insurgency: personalities and politics of the Taft era (Columbia University Press, New York, 1940) and The bridge at Remagen (Hamilton, London, 1961).

Born in Birmingham, 31 July 1869; educated at Walsall and Manchester Grammar Schools, London University (MA), Peterhouse at Cambridge University (Historical Scholar, MA, LLM), Dublin University (LLD), Cambridge (LittD); External Examiner in History in London University 1909-1913, Durham University 1912-1913, Manchester University 1914-1917, Bristol University 1921, University of Wales 1930; Professor of History at University College, Southampton, 1900-1910; Professor of Modern History in the Armstrong College of the University of Durham, 1910-1912; Professor of Medieval History at King's College London, 1912-1934; Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society, 1931-1934; President of the Historical Association, 1936-1938; Fellow of King's College London, 1926; wrote The centenary history of King's College London, 1828-1928 (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1929); died 10 March 1946.

Publications: Editor of Relics of old Southampton (H M Gilbert & Son, Southampton, 1904); editor and transcriber of Court Leet Records A D 1550 [etc] with D M Hearnshaw (1905 etc); editor of On the proposals for peace with the Regicide Directory of France: letter I (W B Clive, London, 1906); Leet Jurisdiction in England, especially as illustrated by the records of the Court Leet of Southampton (1908); The life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Puritan Idealist (1910); A short history of Southampton, in two parts, part I: The story of Southampton in relation to the history of England (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1910); Legal literature [of the age of Dryden] (1912); England in the making (1913); editor of King's College lectures on Colonial problems (G Bell & Sons, London, 1913); Court and Parliament, 1588 to 1688 (1913); A first book of English history (1914); Freedom I Service: six essays on matters concerning Britain's safety and good government (John Murray, London, 1916); Main currents of European history, 1815-1915 (Macmillan & Co, London, 1917); Democracy at the crossways: a study in politics and history with special reference to Great Britain (Macmillan & Co, London, 1918); Municipal records (1918); An outline sketch of the political history of Europe in the Nineteenth Century (Macmillan & Co, London, 1919); editor of Select extracts from chronicles and records relating to English towns in the Middle Ages (London, 1919); Democracy and the British Empire (Constable & Co, London, 1920); editor of Macmillan's historical atlas of modern Europe (Macmillan & Co, London, 1920); editor of Mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1921); The European revolution and after, 1848-1854 (1923); editor of The social and political ideas of some great Mediaeval thinkers: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1923); Newcastle-upon-Tyne...with illustrations (London, 1924); Democracy and labour: a sequel to 'Democracy at the crossways' (Macmillan & Co, London, 1924); A first book of world history (Macmillan & Co, London, 1924); editor of The social & political ideas of some great thinkers of the Renaissance and the Reformation: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1925); editor of The social & political ideas of some great thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1926); editor of The political principles of some notable Prime Ministers of the nineteenth century: a series of lectures (Macmillan & Co, London, 1926); History of Europe revised and brought up to date (Macmillan & Co, London, 1926); The development of political ideas (London, 1927); A survey of socialism, analytical, historical and critical (Macmillan & Co, London, 1928); British Prime Ministers of the eighteenth century (London, 1928); editor of The social & political ideas of some English thinkers of the Augustan age, AD 1650-1750: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1928); editor of The dictionary of English history (Cassell & Co, London, 1928); The centenary history of King's College London, 1828-1928 (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1929); The "Ifs" of history (George Newnes, London, 1929); British Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth century (London, 1930); editor of The social & political ideas of some great French thinkers of the Age of Reason: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1930); editor of The social & political ideas of some representative thinkers of the revolutionary era: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1931); editor of The social & political ideas of some representative thinkers of the age of reaction & reconstruction, 1815-65: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1932); editor of The social & political ideas of some representative thinkers of the Victorian age: a series of lectures (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1933); Conservatism in England: an analytical, historical and political survey (Macmillan & Co, London, 1933); editor of Edwardian England, A D 1901-1910: a series of lectures delivered at King's College University of London, during the session 1932-3 (Ernst Benn, London, 1933); The place of Surrey in the history of England (Macmillan & Co, London, 1936); Prelude to 1937: being a sketch of the critical years, A D 1931-1936 (John Murray, London, 1937); Some great political idealists of the Christian era (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1937); The development of political ideas...revised and enlarged edition (London, 1937); Outlines of the history of the British Isles (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1938); Vyvoj politickych idei (Prelozil Vladmir Dedek) (Praha, 1938); Germany the aggressor throughout the ages (W & R Chambers, London & Edinburgh, 1940); Sea-power & empire (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1940); The Socialists' "New Order" (Individualist Bookshop, London, 1941); The socialists' "New Order" (Society of Individualists, London, 1943); The place of Surrey in the history of England: with illustrations by Elizabeth S. Hearnshaw (S R Publishers, Wakefield, 1971).

Born 1907; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, Dec 1941; service in Indian Army, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; demobilised [1947]; Chairman and Managing Director, Carrier Engineering Company Limited, 1979; died 1986.

Born in 1916; served with 8 Bde, 3 Infantry Div during Normandy landings, 1944; Instructor, Royal Engineers Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1944; awarded the Croix de Guerre, 1944; died in 2002.