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Born 1881; educated Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell and King's College London; Curate at St Mary Abbots, Kensington, and St Peter, Regents Square; Assistant Chaplain, Magdalen Hospital; Lecturer in Philosophy, 1908-1918, and in Dogmatic Theory, 1909-1918, King's College London; Vicar of Christ Church, Crouch End, 1916-1918; Dean of King's College, London, 1918-1932; Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, King's College London, 1918-1931; Chaplain to Gray's Inn, London, 1920; Member of Senate, University of London, 1921; examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford; Boyle Lecturer, 1920-1922; Chaplain to King George V, 1923-1931; White Lecturer, 1927; Noble Lecturer, 1928; Wilde Lecturer, 1929; Preacher to Gray's Inn, 1929; Dean of Exeter, 1931-1934; Dean of St Paul's, London, 1934; Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral, 1932; KCVO, 1935; Warburton Lecturer, 1938; Fellow of King's College, London, 1918; Fellow of the Royal Society, London, 1948; Fellow, Westfield College, University of London, 1948; died 1973.

Publications: Anglo-Catholicism of today (Philip Allan, London, 1934); Three sermons on human nature and a dissertation upon the nature of virtue...with introduction, analyses and notes by W R Matthews (London, 1914); The Lord's Prayer. An exposition for today (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1958]); Biblical principles and social progress (B & F B S, London, [1945]); Christ (Blackie and Son, London and Glasgow, 1939); Christian meditations (Daily Telegraph, London, 1974); Claude Montefiore, the man and his thought (University of Southampton, Southampton, 1956); Does God speak? ; Dogma in history and thought: studies by various writers (Nisbet and Co, London, 1929); Essays in construction (Nisbet and Co, London, 1933); Following Christ (Longmans, London, 1940); God and evolution (London, 1926); God in Christian thought and experience (Nisbet and Co, London, 1930); Is God a person? (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1924]); King's College Lectures on immortality (University of London Press, London, 1920); Memories and meanings (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1969); Our faith in God (Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1936); Our war for freedom. An address to Christians. A broadcast on the Day of National Prayer, October 8, 1939 (Nisbet, London, 1939); Problems of Christian belief ; Psychical research and theology (Society for Psychical Research, London, 1940); Reason in religion...the Essex Hall Lecture (Lindsey Press, London, [1950]); Saint Paul's Cathedral in wartime, 1939-1945 (Hutchison and Co, London, 1946); Seven Words (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1933); Signposts to God [broadcast addresses] (Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1938); Some Christian words (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1956); Some modern problems of faith (Cassell and Co, London, 1928); Strangers and pilgrims. Some sermons preached during the war (Nisbet and Co, London, 1945); The hope of immortality (Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1936); The idea of revelation (London, 1923); The moral issues of the war (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1940); The problem of Christ in the twentieth century. An essay on the Incarnation (Oxford University Press, London, 1950); The psychological approach to religion (Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1925); The purpose of God (Nisbet and Co, London, 1935); The religious philosophy of Dean Mansel (Oxford University Press); The search for perfection (S.P.C.K, London, 1957); The thirty-nine articles (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1961); The year through Christian eyes (Epworth press, London, 1970); Week by week. A year's reflections (Faith Press, London, 1952); What is man? Five broadcast addresses (Clarke and Co, London, 1940); What is man? The religious vocation of science (Nisbet and Co, London, [1932]); A history of St Paul's Cathedral and the men associated with it (Phoenix House, London, 1957); Problems of worship (University Press, Cambridge, 1943-); William Temple: an estimate and an appreciation (James Clarke and Co, London, 1946); Recovery starts within. The book of the mission to London (Oxford University Press, London, 1949); Studies in Christian Philosophy: being the Boyle lectures (Macmillan and Co, London, 1921); The adventures of Gabriel in his search for Mr Shaw (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1933); The British philosopher as writer (Oxford University Press, London, 1955); editor of The Christian faith: essays in explanation and defence (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1936); The foundations of peace (Eyre and Spotiswoode, London, 1942); The Gospel and the modern mind (Macmillan and Co, London, [1925]).

Born Archibald Armar Montgomery, 1871; educated at Charterhouse School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1891; Lt, 1894; served with Royal Field Artillery in Second Boer War, 1899-1902; Capt, 1900; Adjutant, 1904-1905; attended Staff College, 1905-1906; Special Employment, Army Headquarters, 1905-1906; Staff Capt to the Inspector of Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery, 1907-1908; General Staff Officer, Grade 3, Aldershot Command, 1908-1911; Maj, 1909; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Staff College, Quetta, India, 1912-1914; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1914; temporary Lt Col, 1914; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, 4 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1914; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, 4 Div, and temporary Col, 1914-1915; Brevet and substantive Lt Col, 1915; Brig Gen, General Staff, and Chief of General Staff, 4 Corps, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1915-1916; Brevet Col, 1916; Maj Gen, General Staff, and Chief of General Staff, 4 Army, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1916-1919; Maj Gen, 1917; Chief of General Staff, British Army of the Rhine, 1919; Deputy Chief of General Staff, India, 1920-1922; Commander, 53 (Welsh) Territorial Div, Western Command, 1922-1923; Commander 1 Div, Aldershot Command, 1923-1926; Lt Gen, 1926; assumed additional name of Massingberd (when his wife Diana inherited the Massingberd family estate), 1926; General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, 1928-1931; Gen, 1930; Adjutant General to the Forces, 1931-1933; Aide de Camp General to HM King George V, 1931-1935; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1933- 1936; FM, 1935; Col Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1927-1941; Col Commandant, Royal Tank Corps, 1934-1939; Col Commandant, 20 Burma Rifles, 1935; Col Commandant, Royal Malta Artillery, 1937-1941; Honorary Col, 46 (Lincoln Regt) Anti-Aircraft Bn, 1937; died, 1947.

Publications: The story of the Fourth Army in the battles of the hundred days, August 8th-November 11th, 1918 (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1920).

Born, 1923; educated, Wyggeston Grammar School; Wadham College, Oxford; BA, 1945; D Phil, 1947; college tutorship at Wadham College, Oxford, [1947-1953]; departmental demonstrator, Museum for the History of Science, Oxford, 1947-1953; Fellow of the Australian National Laboratory; Charles Coulson's Summer Schools in Theoretical Chemistry, 1955; Lecturer in Physical Organic Chemistry, University of Exeter, 1956; Reader, 1963; foundation chair of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, 1964-1970; Kings College London, 1970-1988; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1982; extraordinary Fellowship at Wolfson College, 1988-1990; died, 2007.

Publications:

A History of the Sciences (1956)

Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations (1982)

Chemical Evolution: Origins of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems (1991)

Born 1926; Second Lieutenant, 1946; Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1947; Captain, 1953; Lieutenant Colonel, 1970; Chief Instructor and Deputy Commandant, Army Apprentices College, Chepstow, 1970-1972; Assistant Adjutant General, Army Recruiting, Ministry of Defence, 1972-1976; Camp Staff Commandant, Northern Ireland Headquarters, 1976; died 1998.

Born in 1896; served with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918; served in UK, 1918-1928; served with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930; served in UK, 1930-1943, and India, 1943-1946; Sqn Ldr, 1931; Wg Cdr, 1937; retired in [1946]; died in 1950.

Mason trained as a nurse at King's College Hospital 1917-1920, gaining General Nursing Council registration in 1922.

Born in 1928; educated at St Austell Grammar School, Christ's College, Cambridge and Yale University; Flying Officer, RAF, 1948-1950; Instructor, Yale University, 1955-1956; Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956-1961; Rockefeller Fellow for Advanced Study, 1958-1959; Associate Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, JohnsHopkins University, 1961-1964; Wilson Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, 1964-1968; headed study group set up by the [Parliamentary] Arms Control and Disarmament Advisory Panel to consider the problems of a comprehensive nuclear test ban, 1966; Professor of War Studies, King's College London, 1968-1977; Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978-1990;appointed Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991; appointed Director of Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1991. Publications: The Anglo-American Tradition in Foreign Affairs (with Arnold Wolfers) (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1956); Peace without victory (Kennikat Press, London, 1958); Neutralism and non-alignment (Frederick A Praeger, New York, 1962); The sea in modern strategy (Chatto and Windus for Institute of Strategic Studies, London, 1967); Arms and Strategy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973); The two-edged sword (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1982); Before the day after (Newnes, Feltham, 1985); The changing face of nuclear warfare (Telegraph, London, 1987); The nuclear element in European security (University Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1990); Minimum deterrence (Council for Arms Control, 1991).

Trained as Greek interpreter at the British Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus, 1957; attached to Special Branch of the Cyprus Police and later 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Cyprus, 1957-1958.