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Born 1899; educated at University College, Cardiff, and King's College Hospital London from which he was awarded his MB BS in 1923; Sambrooke Surgical Registrar, 1924; Senior Surgical Tutor, 1927; Assistant Surgeon, 1928; Surgeon, 1934; Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1934; Royal Army Medical Corps, 1941-1946; Dean of the King's Medical School, 1948; Emeritus Professor and Director of the Department of Surgery in the Medical School, 1956-1970; Consulting Surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, 1956-1970; President of the British Society of Gastroenterology, 1961; died 1989. Publications: Diverticula and diverticulitis of the intestine. Their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment (Bristol, 1939); Surgical emergencies in children (1936); Recent advances in surgery (London, 1948).

The Diaries of Dwight D Eisenhower, 1953-1961, are microfilmed copies of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's diaries, 1953-1961. The original diaries were maintained by Ann C Whitman, Eisenhower's personal secretary and principal record keeper for the White House and were part of Eisenhower's personal papers, which were kept separately from the White House Official Files maintained by the permanent White House staff. The entire Ann Whitman file contains aproximately 250,000 pages of documents and records, of which the Eisenhower Diaries file accounts for about 11 percent of that total. The Eisenhower Diaries file is essentially a distillation of the Ann Whitman file and serves as a running account of Eisenhower's actions from 1953-1961. It was designed to serve as the basis for historical accounts both during and after the Eisenhower administration and provided the framework for Eisenhower's memoirs, The White House Years (Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1963-65).

Born in 1895; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; commissioned into the 11 (Reserve) Bn, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Jan 1915; joined 9 (Service) Bn, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 64 Infantry Bde, 21 Div, Western Front, Dec 1915; served in France and Flanders, World War One, 1915-1918; wounded Battle of the Somme, 1916; awarded MC, 1916; Lt, 1917; served at Third Battle of Ypres,1917; wounded at Second Battle of Aisne, 1918; awarded Bar to MC, 1918; Capt, 1924; graduated Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1929; General Staff Officer 3, War Office, 1930-1934; Maj, 1936; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Northern Command, 1936- 1938; General Staff Officer 2, West Riding Div, 1938-1940; served in UK, Norway and India, World War Two, 1939-1945; served in the North-Western Expeditionary Force, Norway, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; acting Brig, 1941; Brigadier General Staff, Central Command, India, 1943-1947; substantive Col, 1944; Deputy Chief of Staff, Allied Commission, Austria, 1947-1948; retired from Army as Honorary Brig, 1948; worked in the Historical Section, Cabinet Office, 1948-1952; appointed Justice of the Peace for Surrey, 1951; County Commandant, Surrey Army Cadet Force, 1952-1956; Honorary County Secretary of the Hampshire Soldiers', Sailors', and Airman's Families Association, 1958-1970; died in [1974].

Born 1902; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1923; served with 2 Bn, King's Own Scottish Borderers, in Egypt, Hong Kong, Shanghai and India, 1923-1932; Lt, 1925; Adjutant, 2 Bn, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1929-1932; transferred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) and promoted Capt, 1935; temporary Staff Capt, Malta, 1935-1936; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, 1938; General Staff Officer 3, Scottish Command, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Maj, 1940; Bde Maj, 154 Bde, 51 (Highland) Div, France, 1940; awarded OBE, 1940; temporary Lt Col, 1941; Commanding Officer, 6 Bn, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), converted into 93 Anti-tank Regt, Royal Artillery, Tunisia, 1942-1943; Commanding Officer, 8 Bn, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), Tunisia, Sicily and Italy, 1943; awarded DSO, 1943; commanded 17 Indian Bde, 8 Indian Div, Italy, 1943-1944; temporary Brig, 1944; awarded Bar to DSO, 1944; commanded 167 (London) Bde, 56 Div, Italy, 1944-1946; awarded CBE, 1945; commanded 130 Bde, Germany, 1946; commanded 13 Bde, Trieste, 1946-1947; Deputy Director of Military Training, War Office, 1948-1950; Second in Command, 51 (Highland) Div, 1950-1952; Maj Gen, 1953; General Officer Commanding 51 (Highland) Div and Highland District, 1952-1956; awarded CB, 1954; Col, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1954-1961; retired 1956; Councillor, Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire County Council, 1958-1967; President, Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1962-1965; Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries, 1962-1967; Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1965-1967; Member of the British Society of Dowsers, 1966-1975; died 1996. Publications: Dowsing, one man's way (Spearman, Jersey, 1977)

Born in 1896; served in Army Service Corps, [1915]-1918, joined No 142 Sqn, 1918; served with No 47 Sqn, South Russia, 1919; Assistant Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence, 1937-1939, and to War Cabinet, 1939-1941; Fighter Command, 1941-1942; Director of Plans, Air Ministry, 1942-1944; Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar, Feb-June 1944; Air Officer CommandingBalkan Air Force, 1944-1945; Assistant Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1945-1946; Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Policy), 1946-1947; Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command, 1947-1949; Chief Staff Officer to Minister of Defence and Deputy Secretary (Military) to Cabinet, 1949-1951; ADC to King George VI, 1950-1952; Chairman of British Joint Services Mission, Washington, and UK Representative on the Standing Group of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1951-1954; ADC to Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-1954; Chairman of Council, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 1954-1958; died in 1971.

Born, London, 1791; educated, private pupil of the rector of St Saviour's, Southwark, Edinburgh, Jesus College, Cambridge; pupil, St Thomas's and Guy's Hospital; assistant, Guy's Hospital, for five years; graduated, MD, 1821; Professor of the Practice of Medicine, University of London, 1831; helped establish University College Hospital; Lumleian lecturer, 1829; Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of London, 1831; first physician in Britain to use the stethoscope; founder and first president of the Phrenological Society; President, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, [1837]; studied mesmerism, and held séances; the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London banned mesmerism and his interest compelled to resign his professorship, 1838, and membership of the Society; Harveian orator, 1846; established a mesmeric hospital, 1849; founded his own journal, The Zoist , to publish reports of mesmeric phenomena; died, 1868. Publications include: Dissertatio ... de inflammatione communi, etc. (Edinburgh 1810); Numerous cases illustrative of the efficacy of ... Prussic Acid in affections of the Stomach; with a report upon its powers in Pectoral and other Diseases in which it has been already recommended; and some facts respecting ... the use of Opium in Diabetes (London, 1820); The introductory lecture of a course upon state- medicine. delivered in Mr Grainger's theatre, Southwark, on Thursday, November the first (Printed by T Bensley, London, 1821); The Institutions of Physiology ... Translated from the Latin of the third and last edition, and supplied with numerous and extensive notes, by John Elliotson ... Second edition Fourth edition by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (Longman & Co, London, 1828); On the recent improvements in the art of distinguishing the diseases of the Heart, being the Lumleyan lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, in the year 1829 (London, 1830); Address delivered at the opening of the Medical Session in the University of London, Oct. 1st 1832 (London, 1832); The Principles and practice of Medicine: ... in a course of Lectures, delivered at University College, London (London, 1839); Lectures on the theory and practice of Medicine, delivered in University College, London Edited by J C Cooke, and T G Thompson (London, 1839); Numerous cases of surgical operations without pain in the mesmeric state; with remarks upon the opposition of many members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and others (London, 1843); The Harveian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, London, June 27th, 1846 (H Baillière, London, 1846); Mesmerism in India, and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine (Esdaile, 1846/1977); Cure of a true cancer of the female breast with mesmerism Extracted from the last number of "The Zoist" (No. XXIII.) (London, 1848); The Zoist: a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism Editor 13 volumes (London, 1843-1856); John Elliotson on mesmerism edited by Fred Kaplan (Da Capo Press, New York, 1982).