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Born, 1909; educated privately.  BA Hons in English, Christ Church, Oxford, 1930; commissioned, Royal Scots Greys, 1935;served in Palestine with Royal Scots Greys, 1937-1940; Recruiting Officer, Southern Palestine, 1939-1940; attached to military mission to Pretoria and Basutoland, 1940-1941; Schools Liaison Officer, 3 Armoured Group, Northern Command, UK, 1942-1943; trained as a Paratrooper, 1943; Commanding Officer, 22 Independent Parachute Company, 1943; killed in action, D Day, 6 Jun 1944, parachuting into France with 22 Independent Parachute Company to mark drop zones for use by the British Airborne Division.

Born 8 March 1904; educated Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned Lincolnshire Regt, 1923; language officer, interpreter and intelligence officer, travelling in Japan, China, Dutch East Indies, Manchuria and Korea, 1930-1939; served World War Two, 1939-1945 (wounded, POW in Japanese hands, 1941-1945); married Emily Hahn, 1945; retired from Army with rank of Major, 1947; appointed Camões Professor of Portuguese, King's College London, 1947-1951; Professor of the History of the Far East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1951-1953; re-appointed Camões Professor, 1953-1967; elected Fellow of the British Academy 1957; Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, 1961-1968; Fellow of King's College London, 1967; Emeritus Professor of Portuguese, University of London, 1968; Professor of the History of Expansion of Europe Overseas, Yale, 1969-1972; Visiting Research Professor, Indiana University, 1967-1979; Emeritus Professor of History, Yale, 1972; Honorary Fellow, SOAS, 1974; Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 1976; Honorary doctorates of the Universities of Utrecht (1950), Lisbon (1952), Bahia (1959), Liverpool (1966), Hong Kong (1971), Peradeniya (1980); Gold Medal, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, 1986; Order of Santiago da Espada (Portugal, 1990); Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal); Kt Order of St Gregory the Great, 1969; died 27 April 2000.

Publications: (selection of principal works only), The commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrade (Routledge, London, 1930); The journal of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, Anno 1639 (Cambridge University Press, London, 1930); A true description of the mighty kingdoms of Japan and Siam (Argonaut Press, London, 1935); Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1817 (M Nijhoff, The Hague, 1936); Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770 , (M Nijhoff, The Hague, 1948); The Christian century in Japan, 1549-1640 (University of California, Berkeley, 1951); Salvador Correia de Sá and the struggle for Brazil and Angola (Athlone Press, London, 1952); South China in the 16th Century (Hakluyt Society, London, 1953); The Dutch in Brazil, 1624-1654 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1957); The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 (Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, London/Cambridge, 1959); The great ship from Amaco n (CEHU, Lisbon, 1959); Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa (Hollis and Carter, London, 1960); The golden age of Brazil, 1695-1750 (University of California, Berkeley, 1962); Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963); The Dutch seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 (Hutchinson, London, 1965); Portuguese Society in the Tropics (University of Wisconsin Press, London, 1966); Further selections from the tragic history of the sea , (Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, London/Cambridge, 1969); The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415-1825 , (Hutchinson, London, 1969); Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th Century (National Maritime Museum, London, 1974); Mary and Misogyny (Duckworth, London, 1975); A descriptive list of the State Papers Portugal, 1661-1780, in the Public Record Office 3 vols (ACL/British Academy, Lisbon/London, 1979, 1983); João de Barros: Portuguese humanist and historian of Asia (Concept, New Delhi, 1981); From Lisbon to Goa 1500-1750 (Variorum reprints, London, 1984); Portuguese Conquest and Commerce in Southern Asia 1500-1750 (Variorum reprints, London, 1985); Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan 1543-1640 (Variorum reprints, London, 1986); Dutch Merchants and Mariners in Asia 1602-1795 (Variorum reprints, London, 1988).

Born 1869; educated Merchant Taylors' School, London; St John's College, Oxford; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholar, 1889; Casberd Scholar of St John's College, 1891; first class Theology, School, 1892; Junior Kennicott Scholar, 1893; first class Semitic Languages, 1894; Houghton Syriac Prize, 1895; ordained, 1896; Hebrew Master at Merchant Taylors' School, 1897-1904; Vicar of Linton Ross, 1904-1909; Rector of Sutton, Sandy, Bedfordshire, 1909-1930; Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, King's College London, 1918-1926; Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies in the University of London, 1926-1930; died 1942. Publications: include: The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue (with William Oscar Emil Oesterley), (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, London, 1907); The Book of Isaiah (Sir I Pitman and Sons, London, 1908); A Short Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (Rivingtons, London, 1909); The Ezra-Apocalypse (Sir I Pitman and Sons, London, 1912); Sirach (jointly) and II. Esdras, in Charles' Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphia 2 vols, (London, 1913); The Virgin Birth of Jesus (Sir I Pitman and Sons, 1916); Translations of Early Documents: a series of texts important for the study of Christian Origins, by various authors, Joint editor (with William Oscar Emil Oesterley), (SPCK, London, 1916-1937); The Apocalypse of Ezra (SPCK, London, 1917); The Apocalypse of Abraham (SPCK, London, 1918); A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediaeval Judaism (with William Oscar Emil Oesterley), (SPCK, London, 1920); St Matthew, Editor, (Century Bible, 1922); The Clarendon Bible, General Editor (with the Bishops of Newcastle and Ripon), (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1922-1947); The Testament of Abraham (SPCK, London, 1927); Judaism in the Greek Period from the rise of Alexander the Great to the intervention of Rome, 333 to 63 BC (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932); Some Notes on the Apocalyptic Teaching of Jesus (SPCK, London, 1933).

Born in 1913; educated at Downside, Royal Military Academy Woolwich and Trinity College, Cambridge; commissioned into the army in 1933; served in Palestine, 1936; India, 1937-40; Middle East, 1940-42; and India and Burma, 1942-46; British Military Mission to Greece, 1947-1950; UK, 1951-1955; Commander, Royal Engineers, 17 Gurkha Division, Malaya, 1955-1958; Col, General Staff, War Office, 1958-1961; Brig and Chief Engineer, Far East Land Forces, 1961-1964; Brigadier General Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1964-1965; Engineer-in-Chief, 1965-1968; Col, Gurkha Engineers, 1966-1971; Col Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1968-1973; died 1998.

Born in 1855; educated at Durham School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1879; served in South Africa as Senior Surgeon, Portland Hospital, Bloemfontein, 1899-1900; Maj, 1908-1914 and Lt Col, 1 London General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-1919; civilian member of Army Medical Advisory Board, [1913]-1918; served in Army Medical Service, 1914-1919; British Red Cross Society representative on the Technical Reserve Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid, 1914-1920; member of honorary consulting staff of Royal Army Medical College, Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, 1914-1920; served on British Red Cross Society Executive Committee, 1917-1920; honorary Maj Gen, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1920; died in 1929.

Born 1894; commissioned into the Royal Marines, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service with Royal Naval Div, 1914; Special Service, HMS HYACINTH, Flagship of R Adm Herbert Goodenough King-Hall, Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 1914-1915; Lt, 1915; Capt, Royal Marines Artillery, 1918; served on HMS IRON DUKE, Flagship of Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, Black Sea and Turkey, 1919-1920; service on HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, Flagship of Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 1922-1923; Capt, Royal Marines, HMS HAWKINS II, Colombo, Ceylon, 1931-1933; served in Chatham, Kent, 1933-1934; Maj, 1934; service in Deal, Kent, 1934-1935; Bde Maj, Deal, Kent, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; acting Lt Col, 1940; Lt Col, 1942; Col, War Service Rank, 1945; retired [1945]; died 1983.

John Edmund Bowen was born in 1885 in Galway, Ireland, the son of Bartholomew Bowen, and educated at Queen's School, Galway. He entered Trinity College Cambridge in 1911 and attended lectures delivered by Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. Bowen was a lecturer in Physics at King's College London from 1919-1921, before taking up a post in China.

Born, 1902; educated, Birkenhead Institute; University of Liverpool; Trinity College, Cambridge; Oliver Lodge Fellow, University of Liverpool, 1923-1924; research assistant to Sir J J Thompson, 1924-1926; Demonstrator in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1925-1926; founder member of Cambridge University Air Squadron, 1925; Lecturer in Air Navigation and Aircraft Instruments, Imperial College of Science, 1938-1940; Honorary Secretary of the Institute of Professional Civil Servants, 1938-1940; Department of the Director of Armament Research, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1940; Director of Instrument Research Development, Ministry of Supply, 1941-1947; Chairman of the Air Photography Research Committee, 1945-1947; Member of Council, British Scientific Instrument Research Association, 1945-1947; Chief Superintendant, Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscome Down, 1947-1950; Scientific Advisor to UK High Commissioner to Australia and Head of UK Ministry of Supply Staff, Australia, 1951-1953; Principal Director of Aircraft Equipment Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, 1953-1954; Chairman of the Air Navigation Committee of the Aeronautical Research Council, 1958-1961; Member of Council, Air League of the British Empire; Member of Air Traffic Control and Navigation Committee of the Electronics Research Council, 1961-1968; died, 1984.