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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.

Arent Jen Wensinck, from 1912 until 1927, was professor of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac at the University of Leiden, and in 1927 he succeeded Snouck Hurgronje as professor of Arabic and Islam at the same university, at which post he remained until his death.

Adrian David Hugh Bivar, FRAS (1926 - 2015) was a British numismatist and archaeologist, who was Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specialized in Sasanian seals and rock reliefs, Kushano-Sasanian coins and chronology, Mithraic iconography, Arsacid history and pre-Islamic folklore.