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Alan Charles Trott was a British diplomat. He was educated at Exeter School and St John's College, Cambridge. He served in WWI before being employed in the Levant Consular Service from 1920. Postings included Tehran, Resht, Ispahan, Casablanca. Shiraz and Jedda. He served at Consul-General in at Ahwaz, Persia, 1945-47, and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1947-51. He resigned in December 1951 but subsequently became the Director of the Middle East Center for Arab Studies, Shemian, Lebanon, from 1953-57. He was interested in the birds and flowers of the area. He died on 6 July 1959.

Herbert Allen Giles was born in 1845. he studied at Charterhouse before becoming a British diplomat to China, serving from 1867-1892. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanisation system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Giles Chinese romanisation system. On returning to England he was appointed the second professor of Chinese language at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Thomas Wade in 1897. He translated many Chinese works. Giles retired in 1932, and subsequently died in 1935.

Sir Ernest Mason Satow was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and University College, London. Satow was an exceptional linguist, an energetic traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist, and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects. He served in Japan and China as a diplomat and was Britain's second plenipotentiary at the Second Hague Peace Conference.