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Cécile Beurdeley was an author and expert in Chinese ceramics.

Professor J. Clifford Wright is an Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London with a specialist interest in Jaina Studies.

Rima Hooja is an archaeologist and historian of Rajasthan. Educated in Jaipur and at Cambridge University, from where she holds a PhD in archaeology, she is the author of several books, including History of Rajasthan. She is currently Consultant Director at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum City Palace Jaipur, Managing Trustee of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation; and Visiting Professor at Delhi's School of Planning & Architecture and Ahmedabad University. A former Member of India’s National Monuments Authority, and a 'Distinguished International Academician' of Minnesota University, she is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr Hooja has been Director of Minnesota University’s MSID India Program for 12 years and also Faculty Director of New York State Independent College Consortium for Study in India Programme.

Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922.

Malcolm Mercer is Curator of Tower Armouries at the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London.

Malcolm Mercer is a specialist in late medieval English cultural, military and political history. He came to the Royal Armouries from Canterbury Cathedral Archives in 2009 where he was Senior Research Archivist and directly responsible for collections development.