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Born, 1878; educated at Bedford; commissioned into the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry), 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Railway Staff Officer, South Africa [1900]; Lt, 1901; service with West African Regt, 1903-1904; Capt, 1909; Territorial Adjutant, 1909-1912; service in Ireland, 1912; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service in France with the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry), British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 1914; transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1914; served with Royal Flying Corps, as observer and pilot, Western Front, 1915; Maj, 1915; service in Dardanelles, 1915; temporary Lt Col, 1916; Chief of Staff, Royal Flying Corps, Middle East, 1916-1918; awarded DSO, 1916; temporary Brig Gen, 1918; awarded CMG, 1918; Director of Flying Operations, Air Ministry, 1918-1919; British Air Adviser to the Supreme Council and the Council of Ambassadors, Peace Conference, Versailles, France, 1919; Col, 1919; British Air Adviser to the Council of the League of Nations, 1919; awarded CB, 1919; transferred to RAF with rank of Group Capt, 1919; British Air Representative on the Inter-Allied Military Committee, Versailles, 1922; retired as Hon Brig Gen, 1922; Hon Secretary General, Air League of British Empire, and Editor of Air , 1927-1929; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Group Capt and Hon Air Cdre, RAF Volunteer Reserve, 1939; Deputy Director of Intelligence, Air Ministry, 1939-1940; Political Warfare Executive, Foreign Office, 1940-1946; demobilised, 1946; Associate Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society; retired to South Africa, 1948; died, 1959. Publications: Our future in the air (Hutchinson, London, 1922); Behind the smoke screen (Faber and Faber, London, 1934); and a further publication, Our future in the air (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1935).

Born in 1905; 2nd Lt, Welch Regt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939, and Crete, 1941; captured by Germans in Crete, 1941, and held as POW in Salonika and Germany, 1941-1945; Maj, 1942; Lt Col, 1947; died in 1985.

Born 1895; worked in the family firm, City Lead Works, Southwark, London; commissioned as 2 Lt, 2 Bn, City of London Regiment, Aug 1914; seconded to the War Office, 1916; served in the Aircraft Equipment Directorate, 1916-1918; resumed work in the City Lead Works; died, 1986.

Publications: The 2nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the Great War (City of London Regiment, 1929).

Born in 1892; Lt, 1914; served on HMS REVENGE, Battle of Jutland, 1916; Lt Cdr, 1922; Cdr, 1927; served on teaching staff of Royal Naval College, Greenwich; correspondent for The Sunday Times, HMS SCYLLA, 1944; visited Germany, 1945; died in 1954. Publications: A cruiser commander's orders (Gieves, Portsmouth, 1933), The art of the admiral (Faber and Faber, London, 1937), Sea power in the next war (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1938), The men who defend us (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1938), Service pay (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1944), The Bismarck episode (Faber and Faber, London, 1948), Nelson the sailor (Faber and Faber, London, 1949), Main fleet to Singapore (Faber and Faber, London, 1951), Unconditional hatred (Devin-Adair Co, New York, 1954).

Born, Aberdeen, 1753; educated, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities; Christ Church, Oxford; studied at St George's Hospital, London, 1773-1774; M D, 1774; studied medicine on the continent, 1774-1776; Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, 1776; began giving clinical lectures at the infirmary, 1777; Professor of the Practice of Medicine, 1790; head of the Edinburgh Medical School; had the leading consulting practice in Scotland; died, 1821.

Publications: Dissertatio medica inauguralis de morbis cœli mutatione medendis (Edinburgh, 1774); Theory of the moods of verbs From the transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh [Edinburgh, 1787]; Philosophical and literary essays 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1792); Memorial to the managers of the Royal Infirmary [of Edinburgh] (Edinburgh, 1800); Additional Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary (Murray & Cochrane, Edinburgh, 1803); Lectures on the duties ... of a physician ... Revised and corrected by James Gregory, M.D. (Edinburgh, 1805); Epigrams and Poems (Edinburgh, 1810); Letters from Dr J G in defence of his Essay on the difference of the relation between motive and action, and that of cause and effect in physics: with replies by A Crombie (London, 1819).

Born in 1897; educated at Northampton School; joined 7 Bn Northamptonshire Regt as a volunteer, Sep 1914; served with Northamptonshire Regt and Lancashire Fusiliers in France and Belgium, 1915-1918; Lt, 1918; joined Indian Army, 1918; Capt, 1922; Bde Maj, Wana, North West Frontier, India, 1932-1936; Maj, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Rawalpindi District, 1939; General Staff Officer Grade 1, India, 1941; Lt Col, 1943; served in Burma, [1943-1945]; Col, 1946; Maj Gen, 1947; retired, 1957; died in 1989.

Born, London, 1791; studied in Germany, [1806-1809]; apprenticed at the College of Surgeons to his uncle, Henry Cline; pupil at St Thomas's Hospital; demonstrator of anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1813; diploma of the College of Surgeons, 1815; private surgical practice in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1815-1836; private course in philosophy in Berlin, 1817; Lecturer on anatomy and later surgery, St Thomas's Hospital, 1818-[1852]; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1820-1852; Professor of Anatomy, College of Surgeons, 1824; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1825; Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy, 1825-1852; Professor of Surgery, King's College, 1830-1837; close friend and was literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1834, becoming interested in systematising, developing, and establishing the doctrines of Coleridgean philosophy; life member, 1835, examiner, 1846, President, 1849-1850, 1858-1859, College of Surgeons; Hunterian orator, 1841, 1847; DCL, Oxford, 1853; College of Surgeons representative on the General Medical Council, 1858; president, General Medical Council, 1860-1863; died, 1863. Publications include: A letter to Sir Astley Cooper ... on certain proceedings connected with the establishment of an anatomical and surgical school at Guy's Hospital (London, 1825); The dissector's manual (printed for the Author, London, 1820); Distinction without separation. A letter to the President of the College of Surgeons on the present state of the profession (London, 1831); An address delivered in King's College, London, at the commencement of the medical session, Octr. 1832 (London, 1832); Suggestions respecting the intended plan of medical reform (London, 1834); A Manual of Modern Surgery, founded upon the principles and practice lately taught by Sir Astley Cooper Bart. ... and Joseph Henry Green edited by T Castle, fifth edition (W Rushton & Co, Calcutta, 1839); The principles and practice of Ophthalmic Surgery: comprising the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the eye, with the treatment of its diseases by B Travers and J H Green, edited by Alexander Cooper Lee (London, 1839); Vital dynamics. The Hunterian oration (W Pickering: London, 1840); The touchstone of medical reform; in three letters addressed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart (London, 1841); Mental Dynamics, or Groundwork of a professional education. The Hunterian Oration (London, 1847); Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and some miscellaneous pieces, etc [With an introduction by Joseph H Green] Samuel Taylor Coleridge (William Pickering: London, 1849); Spiritual philosophy 2 volumes (London, Cambridge,1865).

Born, 1911; educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, 1932; service in Aldershot, Hampshire, and on public duties in London, 1932-1939; Lt, 1935; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, 1939-1940; temporary Capt, 1939-1940; Capt, 1940; General Staff Officer 3, Southern Command, UK, 1941; acting Maj, 1941-1942; Bde Maj, 136 Infantry Bde, 1941-1942; Headquarters, 24 Guards Independent Infantry Bde, North Africa, 1942-1943; temporary Maj, 1942-1946; served in North Africa and Italy, 1943-1945; Military Assistant to Lt Gen Sir Archibald (Edward) Nye, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office, 1945; Maj, 1946; Military Assistant to FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Jan-Sep 1946; General Staff Officer 2, Offices of the Cabinet, Sep-Dec 1946; General Staff Officer 2, Ministry of Defence, 1947; retired to Reserve of Officers, 1947; racing commentator for BBC, 1948-1954; restored to Active List, 1949; temporary Lt Col, 1951-1954; General Staff Officer 1, Specially Employed, 1951-1954; Lt Col, 1955; Commanding Officer, 2 Bn, Coldstream Guards, 1955-1958; Col, 1958; temporary Brig, 1958; commanded 1 Federal Infantry Bde, Malaya, 1958-1961; awarded CBE, 1961; Chief of Staff, Headquarters London District, 1961-1964; Brig, 1962; retired, 1964; appointed Director of Security for the Turf Authorities, 1964; Justice of the Peace, West Sussex, 1967; Director of Apprentice School, 1969-1983; retired, 1977; Hon Member of Jockey Club, 1977; President of Jockey's Valets Association, 1977; Director, Paul Kelleways (Bloodstock Agency), 1978; died, 1986.