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Gordon Johnson was President of Wolfson College between December 1993 and September 2010 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 2002 until 2010. He was the first Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust (2000-2010) and became President of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2009. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College in 2010.

Educated at Richmond School, Yorkshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became an historian of India, and later of Cambridge. He taught at Trinity and Selwyn Colleges before coming to Wolfson. He was Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies from 1983 to 2001. He has served on the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society including being its President.

John Romer was born in 1780 at Ancroft, County Durham, England, the son of Robert Romer and Frances Marshall. He married Margaret Stewart Anderson, daughter of Robert Anderson, on 10 September 1816 at Surat, India. Romer held the office of Magistrate of Surat in 1816 and was Acting Governor of Bombay in 1831.He was vice-president of the British Empire Life Assurance Company Ltd in 1839. He wrote articles on Persian and Zand in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.