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Jacqueline Filliozat has been a librarian, a lecturer and a research fellow during forty years in Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, working in Pāli philology. She dedicated herself specially to cataloguing Pāli manuscript collections in Europe and Southeast Asia as well, searching for new texts to be distributed to students and colleagues preparing romanized editions. Now retired, she is currently feeding the EFEO PALI Database available in EFEO Paris Library for consultation and compiling a Vocabulary of Pāli codicology (Abhidhānasadda pāḷipotthakañāṇa). (Information taken from academia.edu website: https://independent.academia.edu/jacquelinefilliozat.)

Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram, better known by his regnal name, Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor of India and reigned from 1628-1658. He was known for his contributions to architecture.

James Brogden was the Whig MP for Launceston (Cornwall) from 1796 - 1832. He was the oldest son of John Brogden, a merchant, of Leadenhall Street, London and James probably worked in partnership with his father, John, who was a Russia merchant and director of the London Assurance Company and in business from 1757 to 1793. By 1806 Brogden was being described as a "respectable Russia merchant." He was judged to know the "country and the climate" of Russia well and had spent a year in Russia in 1787/8. He also undertook a North European tour in 1791.

Brogden was elected, in 1796, to represent Launceston in Cornwall, in Parliament, supported by the Duke of Northumberland. He frequently spoke on commercial matters (including on the mining industry in which he had a stake in Carmarthenshire) and not always to the Duke's approval. He voted for parliamentary reform in the 1790s and was considered friendly to the abolition of slavery. On good terms with the Duke again by 1812, Brogden gained a seat on the Treasury Board but gave up the seat in 1813 when he became Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee where he remained for 13 years until he felt obliged to resign, claiming innocence, over his involvement in a mining company scandal. Brogden left parliament in 1832 and died ten years later.