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Born in London, 1886; educated at St Albans School and University College, London; joined Oxford University Press as a reader, 1908; remained a member of staff (as a literary advisor) until his death, working mainly in London; published his first book of verse, 1912; a prolific author, he continued to write and lecture until his death, producing anthologies, prefaces, reviews, and over thirty volumes of poetry, plays, literary criticism, fiction, biography and theological argument; associates included C S Lewis, T S Eliot and Dorothy Sayers; member of the Church of England; increasingly devoted his writings, particularly his novels, Arthurian poems, and literary and theological commentaries, to doctrines of romantic love (believing that the romantic approach could reveal objective truth) and the coinherence of all humans; abandoned the traditional form of his early verse; in recognition of two courses of lectures in wartime Oxford, awarded an honorary MA (University of Oxford), 1943; died at Oxford, 1945. See also C S Lewis's preface to Essays presented to Charles Williams (Oxford University Press, London, 1947). Publications: Poetry: The Silver Stair (1912); Poems of Conformity (1917); Divorce (1920); Windows of Night (1925); A Myth of Shakespeare (1929); Heroes and Kings (1930); Three Plays (1931); Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (the Canterbury Festival play, 1936); Taliessin through Logres (1938); Judgement at Chelmsford (1939); The Region of the Summer Stars (1944). Prose: as editor, A Book of Victorian Narrative Verse (1927); Poetry at Present (1930); War in Heaven (1930); Introduction to Gerard Hopkins's Poems (2nd edition, 1930); Many Dimensions (1931); The Place of the Lion (1931); The Greater Trumps (1932); The English Poetic Mind (1932); Shadows of Ecstasy (1933); Bacon (1933); Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933); James I (1934); Rochester (1935); Elizabeth (1936); New Book of English Verse (1935); Descent into Hell (1937); Henry VII (1937); He came down from Heaven (1937); Descent of the Dove (1939); Witchcraft (1941); The Forgiveness of Sins (1942); The Figure of Beatrice (1943); as editor, The Letters of Evelyn Underhill (1943); All Hallows' Eve (1944).

Served with Royal Artillery in Middle East, 1941-1943, and North West Europe, 1945.

Student in the Faculty of Science at King's College London, 1936-1939.

Margaret Durrant trained as a nurse at Lewisham Hospital, between 1931-1934, gaining General Nursing Council registration in 1934.

London Diocesan Reader, from 1898; member of the Central Readers' Board, from [1912]; Honorary Secretary to the Readers' Board for the Diocese of London, from 1912. Publications: A Brief History of Readers and their Work in the Diocese of London, 1866-1926 (The Author, London, 1927); A History of the Reader Movement- "Lay Readers" in the Church of England (Parrett & Neves, Chatham, 1932); The Glorious Ministry of the Laity, in the early days of the Christian Church (Parrett & Neves, Chatham, 1936); The History of Acolytes and Servers and of what they have done for the Church down the centuries (Parrett & Neves, Chatham, 1938).

David G Williamson studied at Oxford, Heidelberg and the School of Slavonic Studies, London; he was head of History and Politics at Highgate School; he has written books on modern German and international history and on the first British Army of occupation in Germany, 1918-1930.Publications:

A Most Diplomatic General: the life of General Lord Robertson of Oakridge, Bt, GCB, GBE, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC, 1896-1974 (Brassey's, London, 1996)

The British in Germany, 1918-1930 (Berg, Oxford, 1991)

Student in the Department of General Literature and Science, King's College London, 1882-1884; awarded a certificate of Approval in Classical Literature and Latin Prose, Jul 1983; awarded a Certificate of Approval in Modern History, Mathematics and French Language and Literature, Jul 1884.

Born in 1894; educated at Royal Navy Hospital School, Greenwich; joined RN, 1909; wounded at Battle of Jutland, 1916; commissioned, 1918; served on Home, Mediterranean and China Stations, 1918-[1931]; Lt, 1921; Lt Cdr, 1929; training duties, HMS PEMBROKE, 1931; New Entry Officer, RN Barracks, Chatham, 1935-1937; Chief Constable of Rochester, 1937-1940; Chief Constable of Bedfordshire, 1940-1953; Deputy Lieutenant, Bedfordshire, 1951-1961, and Suffolk, 1964-1982; HM Inspector of Constabulary, 1953-1964; died in 1982.

Born in 1911; educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Australia; war correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission with Australian Imperial Forces in the Middle East, 1940-1942, and New Guinea, 1942; lost accreditation as war correspondent after becoming involved in a dispute between Gen Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area and Lt Gen Sir Sidney Fairburn Rowell, General Officer Commanding, New Guinea Force; front-line correspondent for the BBC, North West Europe, 1944-1945; BBC special correspondent at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, 1945-1946; freelance broadcaster and journalist, 1946-1954, notably including work as foreign correspondent and commentator for BBC radio and television; commissioned to write volume on siege of Tobruk and Battle of Alamein for Australian Official History of World War Two; appointed military correspondent for The Observer, 1952; died in air crash in Italy, 1954.

Born 1863; entered King's College London as a Demonstrator in the Electrical Engineering Department, 1890; Assistant Professor, 1897-1898, and Professor of Electrical Engineering, King's College London, 1898-1911; William Siemens Professor of Electrical Engineering, King's College London, 1911-1930; resigned 1930; Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, King's College London, 1930-1932; died 1932.

Publications: Electrical traction (1897).