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Born 1857; educated at Aberdeen University, Balliol College, Oxford University; Barrister, Middle Temple, 1888; entered Home Office, 1880; Chairman of Committee on Identification of Habitual Criminals, 1893; Editor of Judicial Statistics of England and Wales , 1894-1903; Chairman of Committee on Cremation, 1902; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, 1903-1908; permanent Secretary of State in the Home Office, 1908-1922; KCB, 1909; KCVO, 1918; Chairman of Royal Irish Constabulary Tribunal, 1922-1923; Chairman of the Safety in Mines Research Board, and Chairman Health Advisory Committee (Mines Department), 1923-1939; Chairman of Special Grants Committee (Ministry of Pensions), 1929-1938; Treasurer and Member of the Council 1922-1939, of King's College, London; died 1941.

Publications: The Home Office (G P Putnam Sons, London and New York, 1925); editor Place names of West Aberdeenshire (New Spalding Club, 1900); editor Home Office practice in extradition cases under the Fugitive Offenders Act, and commissions rogatoires, etc (Home Office, London, 1907).

Born in 1917; educated at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham and Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Naval Cadet, Dartmouth, 1931; served in HMS FROBISHER, HMS BARHAM; transferred to engineering branch, 1935; served in HMS NELSON, HMS DUKE OF YORK and HMS DIDO, [1939-1945]; Engineer Officer, HMS CADIZ; Cdr, 1950; Officer-in-Charge, Gas Turbine Section, Department of the Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet, Admiralty, 1951-1954; Engineer Officer, HMS ALBION, [1954-1956]; Director of Engineering, Royal Naval Engineering College, Plymouth, 1956-[1959]; Engineer Capt, 1959; Assistant Director of Marine Engineering, Ship Department, Admiralty, 1959-[1963]; Commanding Officer, HMS SULTAN, 1963-1964; Captain of Naval Base, Portland, 1966-1968; R Adm, 1968; Naval ADC to Queen Elizabeth II, 1968; Assistant Controller (Polaris), Ministry of Defence, 1968-1971; V Adm, 1971; Chief of Fleet Support and Member of Board of Admiralty, 1971-1974; died 2001.

Born 28 March 1884; 2nd Lt, Durham Royal Garrison Artillery, 1909; Capt, Heugh Battery, Hartlepool, 1914; served in France with 41 Siege Battery, 1915-1917; died in 1950.

Born, London, 1783; educated, grammar school of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire and privately; placed in his father's counting-house, 1799; articled to Astley Paston Cooper, 1800-1806; member of the College of Surgeons, 1806; studied at Edinburgh, 1806-1807; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's Hospital, 1807; surgeon to the East India Company's warehouses and brigade, 1809-1816; surgeon to the London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye (later Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital), 1810-1816, developing its resources as a teaching institution; fellow of the Royal Society, 1813; surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1815; resigned his joint lectureship on surgery with Astley Cooper, 1819; President of the Hunterian Society, 1827; President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1827; Hunterian orator, 1838; member of the council, 1830, examiner in surgery, 1841-1858, Vice-President, 1845-1846, 1854-1855, President, 1847, 1856, Royal College of Surgeons of England; member, veterinary examining committee, 1833; lectured on surgery with Frederick Tyrell at St Thomas's Hospital, 1834; appointed one the Queen's surgeons extraordinary; surgeon in ordinary to the Prince Consort and serjeant-surgeon; first hospital surgeon in England to specialise in surgery of the eye; died, 1858.

Publications include: An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines: illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds, and strangulated hernia (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, 1812); Surgical Essays with Sir Astley Paston Cooper Third edition (Cox & Son, London, 1818); A Synopsis of the Diseases of the Eye, and their treatment (London, 1820); An Inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions, usually denominated Constitutional Irritation (London, 1826); Observations on the pathology of venereal affections (London, 1830); A Further Inquiry concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the pathology of the nervous system (London, 1835); The Hunterian Oration, delivered ... on the 14th of February, 1838 (London, 1838); The Physiology of Inflammation, and the healing process (London, 1844).

Born 1861; educated at Cranleigh School, Kent and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1881; Sudan Expedition, 1884-1886; transferred to Indian Army, 1886; Hunza Naga Expedition, India, 1891-1892; Capt, 1892; garrison commander during siege of Chitral Fort, North West Frontier, India, 1895; Maj, 1895; awarded CB, 1895; transferred to Egyptian Army, 1896; Lt Col, 1896; Dongola Expedition, Sudan, 1896; Commanding Officer, 12 Sudanese Bn, Egypt, 1896-1898; Nile Expedition, Sudan, 1898; Battles of Atbara and Khartoum, Sudan, 1898; awarded DSO, 1898; Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Assistant Adjutant General on staff of Military Governor, Orange Free State, South Africa, 1900; transferred to Royal Fusiliers, 1900; Col, 1904; Military Attaché, Paris, France, 1905; transferred to King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 1906; Assistant Adjutant General, 9 Div, India, 1907-1908; command of Orange River Colony District, South Africa, 1908-1911; Brig Gen, 1909; Maj Gen, 1911; General Officer Commanding East Anglian Div, Territorial Force, 1911-1913; command of Jhanzi Bde, India, 1913; Rawal Pindi Bde, India, 1913-1915; served World War One, 1914-1918; General Officer Commanding 6 Indian Div, Mesopotamia, 1915-1916; commanded 6 Indian Div at Battles of Kurna, Kut el Amara, Ctesiphon and the defence and siege of Kut el Amara, 1915-1916; POW, 1916-1918; created KCB, 1917; resigned, 1920; Independent Conservative MP for the Wrekin, Shropshire, 1920-1922; died 1924. Publications: The military life of Field Marshal George, first Marquess Townshend, 1724-1807 (John Murray, London, 1901); My Campaign in Mesopotamia (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1920).

Joseph Toulmin, born 8 January, 1772. He entered Guy's Hospital London as dresser under Mr Cline, May 1791, Married first Catherine Van Effen, in 1797. Catherine died 11 Mar 1803. Married secondly in 1804, Maria Sampson (1784-1853). Joseph practised surgery in Hackney. He died, 15 Nov 1847. Frederick Justus Toulmin was the son of Joseph Toulmin and his first wife Catherin Van Effen, born 22 Dec 1798. Frederick was apprenticed to his father, and later educated at Guy's Hospital, London, obtaining MRCS 1825; LSA 1829; FRCS 1846. He practised at Upper Clapton and Thurloe Square. He married firstly Mary Anne Flower, 1827, who died in 1844. Married secondly Charlotte Elizabeth (Eliza) Lennox (1810-1869), in 1857. Frederick died on the 4 Feb 1883. Francis Toulmin was born 14 Feb 1803, the son of Joseph Toulmin and his first wife Catherin Van Effen. He was also educated at Guy's Hospital London, obtaining MRCS 1827, FRCS 1847, LSA 1829. He practised in Hackney, and was surgeon to the Invalid Asylum, Stoke Newington. He married c 1834 Ann Elizabeth Stockdale (b 1807). Francis died 13 Mar 1884.