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Samuel G.T. Heatley (more commonly known as Heatly) was a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, serving as one of its secretaries in 1847. He was a geologist and contributed articles to the Society's Journal.

Johannes Gerhard Frederik van Overmeer Fischer began as a clerk at Dejima, the Dutch station in Japan, and he was later promoted to warehouse master. During the span of his stay in Japan, Fischer's access to Japanese culture was limited but he amassed a considerable collection of objects. This material was taken back to the Netherlands in 1829. In 1833, he published Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche rijk (Contribution to the knowledge of the Japanese Empire).

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Major-General Sir John Malcolm GCB, KLS (2 May 1769 – 30 May 1833) was a Scottish soldier, diplomat, East India Company administrator, statesman, and historian. He was born in 1769 in the Scottish Border country. He left school, family and country at the age of thirteen, and achieved distinction in the East India Company, where he was nicknamed 'Boy Malcolm.' Arriving at Madras in 1783 as an ensign in the East India Company's Madras Army, he served as a regimental soldier for eleven years, before spending a year in Britain to restore his health. He returned to India in 1795 as Military Secretary to General Sir Alured Clarke. In 1827 he was appointed Governor of Bombay. In 1831 Malcolm returned to Britain, and died on 30 May 1833.

General Sir George de Lacy Evans GCB (7 October 1787 – 9 January 1870) was a British Army general and later an MP. He was born in 1787, in Moig, County Limerick, Ireland and joined the East India Company's forces in 1800 before volunteering for the British Army in India in 1806. Evans was present at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 and the battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Evans became increasingly concerned that Russia had designs on India. He wrote two books, "On the Designs of Russia" (1828) and "On the Practicability of an Invasion of British India" (1829). From 1854, during the Crimean War he commanded the 2nd Division of the British Army. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye in 1830, and from 1831 to 1832, and for Westminster from 1833 to 1841 and from 1846 to 1865. Evans died on 9 January 1870.