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Born 1922; educated at Charterhouse; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; joined RAF, 1940; flying training in Canada, 1941; Fighter Reconnaissance Sqn, European theatre, 1942-1944; Flying Instructors School, 1944; Airborne Forces, 1945; 615 (County of Surrey) Sqn, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1946-1948; Fighter Gunnery School, 1949-1950; Commanding Officer, 615 Sqn, 1951-1954; awarded AFC, 1954; RAF Staff College, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1954; Chiefs of Staff Secretariat, 1955-1958; Commanding Officer, 46 Sqn, RAF, 1958-1960; Personal Staff Officer to ACM Sir Thomas (Geoffrey) Pike, Chief of the Air Staff, 1960-1962; Commanding Officer, RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 1962-1964; Imperial Defence College, London, 1965; awarded CBE, 1965; Senior Air Staff Officer, Middle East Command (Aden), 1966-1967; awarded CB, 1968; Director of Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1970; Senior Air Staff Officer, RAF Training Command, 1970-1972; Commandant, National Defence College, 1972-1975; Director General, RAF Training, 1975-1977; UK Representative, Permanent Military Deputies Group CENTO (Central Treaty Organisation), 1977-1979; created KCB, 1978; Research Fellow, International Institute of Strategic Studies, 1980-1981; Chairman, Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, 1981-1993; Member, Board of Conservators, Ashdown Forest, since 1984; Chairman, Victory Services Association, 1985-1989; Chairman, RAF Historical Society, 1986-1996; President, Victory Services Association, 1989-1993; Trustee, Guild of Aviation Artists, since 1990; Trustee, Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, since 1990; Vice Chairman, Board of Conservators, Ashdown Forest, 1991-1993; President, Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, since 1993; Life Vice President, RAF Historical Society, 1996. Publications: Contributited to D Day Encyclopedia , edited by David G Chandler and James Lawton Collins, Jr (Simon Schuster, New York, 1994).

Born, Southwark, 1797; educated with Samuel Hemming, Hampton, Middlesex, 1805-1813; apprenticed to Henry Cline the younger, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1814; attended Sir Astley Cooper's lectures on anatomy; acquainted with Joseph Henry Green, a fellow-apprentice, 1813; member, College of Surgeons of England, 1819; prosector to the lecturers on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital; conservator of the museum and assistant demonstrator of anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1820-1823; joint demonstrator of anatomy with Bransby Cooper, 1823, later Lecturer on Anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital; resigned, 1841; Member, Council of the College of Surgeons, 1841; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1841-1863; Surgeon to the Female Orphan Asylum, 1843; Fellow, 1843, Examiner, 1849, President, 1851, 1860, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1843; Professor of Human Anatomy and Surgery in the College, 1845; Hunterian Orator, 1844; worked on the history of English surgery; died, 1882. Publications include: The Dissector's Manual. A new edition, with additions and alterations (London, 1825); A Short Description of the Bones, together with their several connexions with each other, and with the muscles Second edition (W Jackson, London, 1828); St Thomas's Hospital Reports vol 1 editor (London, 1836); Household Surgery; or, hints on emergencies (London, 1847); Facts relating to Hospital Nurses ... Also observations on training establishments for hospitals and private nurses (London, 1857); Memorials of J F South ... Collected by ... C L Feltoe (J Murray, London, 1884); Memorials of the Craft of Surgery in England. From materials compiled by J. F. South Edited by D'Arcy Power and an introduction by Sir James Paget (Cassell & Co, London, 1886); A Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy by Adolph Wilhelm Otto, translated from the German, with notes by J F South (London, 1831); A System of Surgery Maximilian Joseph Chelius translated with additional notes and observations, by John F South 2 volumes (Henry Renshaw, London, 1847); Memorials of John Flint South Introduced by Robert Gittings (Centaur Press, Fontwell, 1970); articles on the 'Zoology of the Invertebrata' in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana.

Born in Perth, 1873; educated at Sharp's Educational Institution, Perth, and Robert Gordon's College and University, Aberdeen; graduated MA with First Class Honours in Classics and Jenkyns Prize in Classical Philology, Aberdeen University, 1893; Ferguson Scholar in Classics, 1893; Fullerton Scholar in Classics, 1894; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Scholar); First Class in Classical Tripos, Part I, 1896, and Second Class, Part II, 1897; BA (Cambridge University), 1896; University Assistant in Humanity and Lecturer in Latin, 1897-1903, and Lecturer in Mediæval Palæography, Aberdeen University, 1903; DLitt (Aberdeen), 1905; Yates Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis and Librarian, Mansfield College Oxford, 1903-1911; MA (Oxford University), 1908; Regius Professor of Humanity, Aberdeen University, 1911-1937; Lecturer in Mediæval Palæography, Aberdeen University, 1913-1937; Curator of Aberdeen University Library, 1919-1924, 1927-1928; Vice-Chancellor, Aberdeen University, 1935-1936; Stone Lecturer, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1924-1925, 1927-1928; Norton Lecturer, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, USA, 1924-1925; Russell Lecturer, Auburn Theological Seminary, USA, 1932-1933; Doctor of Divinity, St Andrews, 1923, Dublin, 1932; MA (Cambridge University), 1930; Doctor of Laws (Aberdeen), 1938; Fellow of the British Academy, 1926 (Member of Council, 1938-1947); awarded British Academy Medal for Biblical Studies, 1932; Corresponding Fellow of the Mediæval Academy of America, 1938; Active Member of the New Society of Letters of Lund (Sweden) 1927; died, 1949. Publications: edited Horæ Latinæ , by the late Robert Ogilvie (1901); edited, with George Middleton, Livy Book xxviii (1902); De Codicibus Manuscriptis Augustini Quæstionum (1905); A Study of Ambrosiaster (1905); edited Pseudo-Augustini Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti cxxvii (1908); Novum Testamentum Graece (1910, second edition 1947); Text and Canon of the New Testament (1913); A Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New Testament (1916); Tertullian's Apology, Notes of the late Professor John E B Mayor (1917); Tertullian's Treatises translated (3 volumes, 1919, 1920, 1922); Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul , i: Introduction (1922), ii: Text (1926), iii: Appendix (1931); part author of Novum Testamentum S Irenaei by Sanday, Turner, etc (1923); editor of Tertulliani Apologeticus (1926); The Earliest Latin Commentaries on the Epistles of St Paul (1927); edited C H Turner's The Oldest Manuscript of the Vulgate Gospels (1931); Glossary of the later Latin (1948); papers in various classical and theological journals.

Born, St Mary Axe, London, 1805; educated under Eliezer Cogan; articled to Benjamin Travers, Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1822; member, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1828; continued his medical studies in Paris; commenced practice, 1831; Lecturer on anatomy and physiology in the medical school of St Thomas's Hospital, 1833-1839; Fellow, Royal Society, 1836; Assistant Surgeon, 1841-1853, Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery, 1853-1871, St Thomas's Hospital; Fellow, 1843, Council Member, 1843, Examiner, 1867, Royal College of Surgeons of England; Arris and Gale Professor of Human Anatomy and Surgery, 1862; President, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1867-1868; died, 1871. Publications: The Human Brain, its configuration, structure, development, and physiology, illustrated by references to the nervous system in the lower order of animals (London, 1836), second edition (London, 1847); The intimate structure of secreting glands. By J[ohannes Mueller] [Being an analysis of his work.] ... With the subsequent discoveries of other authors, by S Solly (London, 1839); Surgical Experiences: the substance of clinical lectures (London, 1865); contributed papers to medical periodicals and to the Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society.