The Faraday Society was a British society for the study of physical chemistry, founded in 1903 and named in honour of Michael Faraday. In 1980, it merged with several similar organisations, including the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and the Society for Analytical Chemistry to form the Royal Society of Chemistry which is both a learned society and a professional body. At that time, the Faraday Division became one of six units within the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Sir Harry Charles Luke was an official in the British Colonial Office. He served in Barbados, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Malta, the British Western Pacific Territories and Fiji. He is the author of some books on several of these countries.
Reginald Leigh Dugmore, known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer.
Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet,, was a British diplomat.
Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson was a British diplomat and politician. He was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Argentina in 1925, and became Ambassador to Argentina from 1927 to 1929.
Sir George Nevile Maltby Bland was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands from 1938 through the war years until 1948. He also authored or edited several legal books and articles.
Sir Robert Stewart Crawford, known as Stewart Crawford, was a British diplomat.
Olaf Hytten was a Scottish actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1955. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack, while sitting in his car in the parking lot at 20th Century Fox Studios. His remains are interred in an unmarked crypt, located in Santa Monica's Woodlawn Cemetery.
Holmes Herbert was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952, often as a British gentleman.
Sir Adrian Holman KBE CMG MC was a British diplomat.
Sir George Russell Clerk was a British diplomat and Privy Counsellor who ended his career as Ambassador to France from 1934 to 1937, after seven years as Ambassador to Turkey, one as Ambassador to Belgium and seven as Ambassador to The Czechoslovak Republic. His name is pronounced as if spelt Clark.
Sir Francis Oswald Lindley was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919–1920, Ambassador to Austria 1920–1921, Ambassador to Greece 1922–1923, Minister in Oslo 1923–1929, Ambassador to Portugal 1929–1931, and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931–1934. Lindley was described as "a rather tough old character in some respects and very outspoken in his likes and dislikes."
Sir Eric Charles Miéville was a senior British civil servant who served as Assistant Private Secretary to George VI from 1937 to 1945, and who also served as Private Secretary to several Governors-General of India and Canada.
Sir Beilby Francis Alston was a British diplomat who was envoy to various countries.
Sir Sidney Barton was a British barrister and diplomat, serving as consul-general in Shanghai and as minister to Ethiopia.
Knut Richard Thyberg was a Swedish diplomat. He was Swedish envoy in Rio de Janeiro from 1949 to 1955, and ambassador in Lisbon from 1955 to 1959 and non-resident ambassador in Monrovia from 1958 to 1959.
Sir Geoffrey Harington Thompson, GBE, KCMG was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Thailand from 1946 to 1950 and British Ambassador to Brazil from 1952 to 1956.
