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Born 1778; educated at schools at Dorking, Putney and Kensington; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1796, graduated BA as second wrangler and second Smith's prizeman; member's prize for Latin essay, and elected Fellow, 1801; ordained deacon, 1802; ordained priest, 1803; curate of Wrotham, Kent, 1804-1806; moderator, University of Cambridge, 1806-1809; Proctor, 1808; Select preacher, 1809-1811; appointed Hulsean Christian Advocate, 1811; appointed domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813; frequently contributed to the Quarterly Review, whilst resident at Cambridge, c.1806-1813; rector of Buxted, Sussex, 1815; rector of Lambeth, Surrey, and Sundridge, Kent, 1820; treasurer to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, member of the London committee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and a principal promoter of the establishment of King's College London, attacking the secular London University (now University College London) by his letter to Sir Robert Peel signed 'Christianus'; died 1846. Publications: Letters to Sir William Drummond and Remarks on Sir William Drummond's Oedipus Judaicus (1813); Two discourses preached before the University of Cambridge on the doctrine of a particular providence and modern unitarianism (1812); D'Oyly and Mant's Bible (with Reverend R Mant), (for SPCK, 1814); Life of Archbishop Sancroft , 2 vols (1821); Sermons , chiefly doctrinal, with notes (1827).

Born in 1896; served with 5 (Weald of Kent) Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regt), Mesopotamia, 1915; wounded, 1915; working for Hills Brothers Company, Basra, Iraq, in the date trade, 1925-1927; emergency commission, Indian Army, 1941; acting Major, 1944; died in 1980. Publications: Dates and date cultivation of Iraq (Agricultural Directorate of Mesopotamia Memoir No. 3, published Cambridge, 1921); co-editor with Albert Aten, Dates: handling, processing and packing (Food and Agriculture Organisation Agricultural Development Paper No 72, Rome, 1962)

Born 1920; educated Whitgift School; entered Royal Air Force 1939; served in Coastal Command, World War Two, 1939-1945; anti U-boat operations, 1945; Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, 1956-1958; commanded Bomber Command Development Unit, 1959-1960; head of North East Defence Secretariat, Cyprus, 1960-1962; Command, RAF Farnborough, 1962-1964; a Director of Operational Requirements (RAF), Ministry of Defence, 1965-1967; Imperial Defence College, 1968; Commandant, RAF College of Air Warfare, Manby, 1969; Commander, Southern Maritime Air Region, 1969-1971; Air Vice Marshal, 1970; Senior RAF Member, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1972-1974; Deputy Controller of Aircraft (C), Ministry of Defence, 1974-1975; retired 1975; died in 2010.

Publications: Management in the Armed Forces: an anatomy of the military profession (London: McGraw-Hill, 1977).

Born 1901; editor of Lilliput during World War One; worked for advertising companies Crawfords, J Walter Thompson and Graham & Gillies during the 1930s; Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, 1942-1944; Psychological Warfare Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, 1944-1945; worked for The Picture Post ; died 1968.

Gordon Oxenbury Douglas, born on 29 May 1914; educated at King's College London Faculty of Science, 1932-1939, passed Intermediate Examination in Science in 1933; worked as technical staff member at the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, 1939-1947; educated in Moral Sciences Tripos at Cambridge University, 1947-1949; lectured at Nottingham University, 1951 until retirement; died 1999.

Born 1885; educated Guy's Hospital, London, and University of Berlin, Germany; Dental Travelling Scholar in Berlin, 1909-1910; formerly Editor, British Dental Journal ; External Examiner to the University of Bristol; Extramural Lecturer to the University of Toronto; Dental Surgeon to King George V Hospital for Treatment of Gunshot Injuries of the Face and Jaws; Consulting Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, London; Examiner in Dental Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons of England; student (occasional) in Theology Department, King's College, London, 1946-1947; visiting Professor of Dental Surgery, Fouad University, Cairo, Egypt, 1948; Wallis Lecturer, Royal Society of Medicine, 1948; Honorary Member of the Stomatological Society of Greece, 1948, the Stomatological Society of Piedmont, Italy, 1951, and the Odontological Section, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 1956; Honorary Life Member of the British Dental Association, 1959; Vice-President of the Medical Defence Union; Vice-President of the Royal Society of Medicine; died 1971.

Publications: contributor to Guy's Hospital, 1725-1948 edited by Hujohn Ripman (London, 1951).

Born in 1913; 2nd Lt, Indian Army, 1937; Lt, 1938; served with 4 Gurkha Rifles, India, 1938-1946; Instructor, Infantry School, India, 1943-1946; Capt, 1944; died in 1947.

Born in 1877; joined Indian Civil Service, 1898; District Opium Officer, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 1923-32; died in 1936.

Born in India in 1910; educated at Mayfield College, Sussex, 1921-1927; enlisted in Life Guards, 1928; commissioned into 2 Royal Ulster Rifles, 1933; served with 1 Royal Ulster Rifles in Alexandria, 1935, Hong Kong, 1935-1937, and Shanghai, 1937; Lt 1936; served in India, 1937-1939; Capt, 1939; served with 2 East Surrey Regt, 1940, 2 Royal Ulster Rifles, 1943-1944, and 1 King's (Liverpool) Regt, 1946; Maj, 1946; Company Commander, 1 Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army of the Rhine, 1950; served with King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1952-1954; Lt Col, 1953; died in 1986.