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Hugh Dalton studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge changing to Economics part way through his undergraduate studies. He was close friends with Rupert Brooke and President of the University's Fabian Society of which George Mallory was a member. He later served in the post war Labour Government including serving two years as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Climbing sherpa on 1921 Mount Everest Expedition with George Mallory, mentioned by name.

Assistant to the elder Thomas Cadell (1742–1802), bookseller and publisher, when he was chosen by him in 1793 as a partner for his youthful son Thomas Cadell the younger (1773–1836) in the management of his business. From that time the business traded as Cadell and Davies, and Cadell the younger left the management of the business to his partner until Davies fell ill in 1813.

Among the earliest women in the UK to pursue a career in surgery, at that time an almost entirely male-dominated profession, she was also the co-founder of the South London Hospital for Women and Children.

Born in Petworth, Sussex (brother of Frances Baker (artist), Eleanor (surgeon) and Margaret (suffragette) and cousin of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner).

Her father, John Neville Colley Davies-Colley, was a surgeon at Guy's Hospital; her maternal grandfather, Thomas Turner, was also treasurer of that hospital.
She studied at Baker Street High School for Girls and Queen's College, London.
After leaving school, she at first worked with poor children in London's East End.

Studied medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women (1902–07), achieving the MB BS degree in 1907.
Was awarded the MD degree by the University of London in 1910.
In 1911, she became the first female fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

On graduating in 1907, she became a house surgeon under Maud Chadburn (with whom she was to live and work for twenty-five years) at the New Hospital for Women, (later renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and now part of the University College London Hospitals).

She then became demonstrator in anatomy at the London School of Medicine and surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital. In addition to her work at the South London Hospital, in later life she was also a surgeon at the Marie Curie Cancer Hospital and senior obstetrician at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.

In 1917, she was one of the founding members of the Medical Women's Federation.

With her colleague Maud Chadburn she began raising funds in 1911 for a new South London Hospital for Women and Children.
At that time, such hospitals served the dual purpose of improving medical care for women and enhancing career prospects for female medical practitioners, as many hospitals refused to employ women.
Aided by her cousin Harriet Weaver and other feminists, enough money was raised to open an outpatients' department in Newington Causeway in 1912. A purpose-built eighty-bed hospital on Clapham Common, staffed entirely by women, was opened by Queen Mary on 4 July 1916.
Davies-Colley worked at the South London Hospital for Women and Children from its foundation until her death, holding various positions including senior surgeon.

She died suddenly of thyroid toxaemia in London in 1934.

Cousin of Francis Turner and cousin of Sandy Irvine.

Born in Petworth, Sussex (brother of Frances Baker (artist), Eleanor (surgeon) and Margaret (suffragette) and cousin of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner).

CMG 1918
MRCS 10 May 1906
FRCS 18 June 1908
BCh Cambridge 1907
MCh 1909

Robert Davies-Colley came from a prominent medical family. His grandfather was Dr Thomas Davies, physician to the Chester General Infirmary, who afterwards took the name of Colley; his father J.N.C. Davies-Colley FRCS was senior surgeon to Guy's Hospital; his mother was a daughter of Charlewood Turner, Treasurer of Guy's from 1856 to 1876; his elder brother Hugh was surgeon to the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and his sister Eleanor was the first woman to be admitted FRCS.

Robert Davies-Colley was educated at Westminster School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1906.

At Guy's Davies-Colley held various posts including those of lecturer in surgical pathology and curator of the medical school museum. He was then appointed obstetric registrar and considered specialising in that subject, but in 1910 transferred to the dissecting room to teach anatomy. This led to his appointment in 1912 to the surgical staff, and during the first world war he served in France and then as consulting surgeon to the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force with the rank of Colonel; he was mentioned in dispatches and appointed CMG in 1918.

In 1933 Davies-Colley was appointed surgeon at Guy's and he also took on other posts. He was Erasmus Wilson lecturer in surgical pathology 1932-35, 1937 and 1939-46 at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was consulting surgeon to the London County Council and to the Florence Nightingale Hospital, an examiner in surgery to London University and the Society of Apothecaries, and a member of the Court of Examiners at the College 1936-41. He took a special interest in the Children's Medical Home at Waddon, Surrey and was for many years its honorary treasurer.

During the second world war Guy's was dispersed into numerous centres in Kent; Davies-Colley became the officer in charge of the Farnborough Hospital and the liaison between Guy's and the Kent County Council.

Davies-Colley married in 1908 Emily Cecilia, daughter of Arthur Crosby Jones of Chatham. She had been a nurse at Great Ormond Street and Guy's Hospitals, and after her marriage she continued her active voluntary work for Guy's. They had two daughters and one son who was killed in action in 1943, aged 23.
Mrs Davies-Colley died on 16 February 1953.

Davies-Colley was a large man with a heavy but handsome face and a friendly smile.

He died at Guy's on 16 April 1955 aged 73.

An English engraver and subject painter, the brother of the artist George Dawe. Dawe was born at Kentish Town, near London, in 1790. He was taught by his father, Philip Dawe, the engraver, and he also studied in the schools of the Royal Academy. He assisted Turner on his Liber Studiorum, and mezzotinted many of his brother's portraits. As a painter, he exhibited at the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected a member in 1830. He died at Windsor in 1848.

Worked for Jeffs and Dawson.

The main British firm of chromolithographic printers. William Day (1797-1845) set up the firm in c. 1824. From c. 1831 traded as Day & Haghe (Louis Haghe, 1806-1885). Haghe left to devote himself to watercolour in the 1850s, where after the firm continued as Day & Son under William Day the younger (1823-1906), also referred to as WJ Day.

Spanish Arabist and polymath.

Educated at Westminster School, De Havilland Technical College, and Christ Church, Oxford.

Senior Research Officer, 1964; Assistant Director, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1975 - 1989; Official Fellow, Magdalene College, Director of Studies in Economics, 1967 - 1989 (Emeritus Fellow, 1989 - 2010); Tutor, 1974 - 1984; Senior Tutor, 1984 - 1989; Senior Proctor, 1974 - 1974.

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 55, (2010-11)

A French sculptor best known for his Art Nouveau bronze depictions of historic figures like Mozart and Gaelic warriors, scenes from Greek mythology, rustic peasants in Tunisia, and pedigreed animals. Born in 1865 in France, he studied with his father the famed sculptor Jean Didier Début, who specialized in more traditionally realistic figurative work, as well as under Henri Michel Antoine Chapu, a renowned sculptor of bronze and marble, at the École des Beaux-Arts. Début began exhibiting both as a painter and sculptor at the Salon of 1883 up until the start of World War I, when the Salon was suspended. The artist died in 1933 in France. 

French judge and politician.

Belgian lithographer.

John Deighton was a bookseller who founded Deighton, Bell & Company in 1778 in Cambridge. The company enjoyed a long and close association with the University of Cambridge.

The company's premies were located in "narrow, early eighteenth-century premises" at the corner of Green and Trinity Streets.

John Deighton became a major publisher for Cambridge University and a binder for the University Library. He also gained a reputation as a book retailer with a "remarkable ability to supply foreign books, even in time of war".

In the years 1813-1827 the firm was operated as a partnership between the founder and his two sons, John Deighton the younger (1791-1854) and Joseph Jonathan Deighton (1792-1848), trading as John Deighton & Sons. Following the elder John Deighton's retirement in 1827, the firm traded as J. & J. J. Deighton. Beginning in 1848, following Joseph's death, the firm traded as J. Deighton.

In 1854 the firm was acquired by the educational publisher George Bell of George Bell & Sons, following which it became known as Deighton, Bell, and Company.

In 1876 it was publishing, jointly with George Bell & Sons and Whittaker & Co., a number of textbook series. During the twentieth century the firm concentrated mainly on bookselling of both new and secondhand books. While its publishing activities had mostly ceased, in 1932 the firm published and distributed F. R. Leavis's literary quarterly Scrutiny. From 1967 the firm devoted itself exclusively to antiquarian bookselling. In 1987 Deighton, Bell, and Co. was acquired by Heffers, which was in turn taken over by Blackwell's.