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Dr Roger B Parsons worked at the British Library and as Librarian at the Buddhist Society. Upon retirement in 2005, he started volunteering at the Royal Asiatic Society, undertaking cataloguing of the Society's collections, most notably the Rawlinson papers. He volunteered with the Society until mid-2024. In 2023, Roger received Life Membership of the Society in recognition of his work with the collections.

Major General William Cullen (17 May 1785–1 October 1862) was a British Army Officer with the Madras Artillery Regiment, and from 1840 to 1860, Resident in the Kingdom of Travancore and Cochin. During his stay in India, he took a scholarly interest in the region and contributed to journals on geology, plants and the culture of the region. He was instrumental in establishing the Napier Museum in Trivandrum. He died at Allepey in Kerala, where a road is named after him.