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Born 1885; educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1904; Lt, 1907; qualified as interpreter in French, 1907; transferred to 116 Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army, 1908; qualified as interpreter in Arabic, 1908; Capt, 1913; Adjutant, 1913-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service on North West Frontier, India, 1915; Assistant Political Officer, Mesopotamia, 1915-1917; Deputy Director Local Resources, 1917-1918; General Staff Officer 2, Hejaz operations, Arabia, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918; President, Local Resources Board, Damascus, Syria, 1918; awarded DSO, 1919, for gallantry during an attack by Arab forces on Turkish positions at Mezerib, Syria, Sep 1918; Foreign Office, 1919-1921; Assistant Secretary, Middle East Department, Colonial Office, 1921-1927; awarded CMG, 1923; Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar, 1927-1929; Counsellor to High Commissioner for Iraq, 1929-1932; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Baghdad, Iraq, Oct-Nov 1932; Knighted, 1932; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland, 1932-1934; created KCMG, 1934; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Northern Rhodesia, 1934-1938; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad and Tobago, 1938-1942; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Assistant Secretary, Relief Department, 1943-1944; European Regional Office, UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-1945; Liberal Party Parliamentary Candidate for Harrow West, 1945, and Edge Hill, 1947; died 1950. 

Publications: The independent Arab (John Murray, London, 1933); Some factors in Colonial Policy (Privately published, London, 1943); Far East relief requirements. Report of Working Party under the chairmanship of Sir Hubert Young (HMSO, London, 1945).

Born 1910; educated Hackney Downs School, London, Chelsea Polytechnic, Christ's College, Cambridge, and London Hospital; Researcher in Biochemical Laboratory, Cambridge, 1931-1936; Benn Levy research student, 1933-1935; Grocers' Company research scholar, 1938-1939; Researcher in Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge, 1938-1943; Sir Halley Stewart Research Fellow, 1940-1943; Director of Medical Studies, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1940-1943; Professor of Physiology, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1945-1954; responsible for the introduction of first comprehensive university courses leading to Bachelor and Master degrees in Nutrition, 1953; Professor of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1954-1971; William Julius Mickle fellow for Medical Research, London University, 1961-1962; retired 1971; Emeritus Professor, 1971, and Fellow, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1976; Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow, 1982-1983; Chairman, Food Group, Society of Chemical Industry; Member of Board of Governors, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, (Honorary Fellow, 1993); died 1995.

Publications: This slimming business (MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1958); editor of Our changing fare: two hundred years of British food habits (MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1966); Pure, white and deadly: the problem of sugar (Davis-Poynter, London, 1972); The complete slimmer (MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1964); The slimmer's cookbook (MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1961); editor of Changing food habits (MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1964); This nutrition business (Teach Yourself Books, Sevenoaks, 1977); Eat well, slim well (Collins and Davis-Poynter, London, 1982); editor of Diet of man: needs and wants (Applied Science Publishers, London, [1978]); Eating for a healthy heart: explaining the 'French paradox' with Sara Stanner (BBC, London, 1996); The sensible person's guide to weight control (Smith-Gordon, 1990); The Penguin encyclopedia of nutrition (Viking, Harmondsworth, 1985); A-Z of slimming (Davis-Poynter, London, 1977).

Born, Scotland, 1940; BSc, Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 1962; diploma in clinical psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, 1963; Scientific Officer Medical Research Council, 1963-1964; Research Officer, Department of Child Development, University of London Institute of Education working on educational and medical survey of schoolchildren, Isle of Wight, under Professor Jack Tizard, 1965-1968; Lecturer in Child Development, Institute of Education, 1968-1969; Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 1968-1969; appointed Honorary Principal Psychologist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1973; Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, 1973-1980; also Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, 1974-1980; appointed Honorary Top Grade Psychologist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1979; Reader in Applied Child Psychology, 1980-1987; Professor of Applied Child Psychology, 1987-2005; Co-Director, School for Life project, Kiev, Ukraine, 1993-2002; Lead Clinician, National and Specialist division, Children's Directorate of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; 1999-2003; Honorary Consultant in Clinical Psychology to the Army, 2000; Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008-. Died 2023.