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Charles Otto Blagden was an English Orientalist and linguist who specialised in the Malay, Mon and Pyu languages. He is particularly known for his studies of Burmese epigraphic inscriptions in the Mon and Pyu scripts. In 1937 he was one of the Vice-Presidents of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Oliver Humphrys Myers was born in Shoeburyness on 27 June 1903. He began his archaeological career in Palestine in 1927 before studying hieroglyphs under Gardiner in 1929. In 1930, he began a distinguished association with Sir Robert Mond at Armant, becoming excavation director in 1936. During the Second World War, he served in the Intelligence Corps across the Middle East. After the war, he returned to archaeological research and teaching in Sudan and later Nigeria. His major publications include The Bucheum and The Cemeteries of Armant. He died in Berkhamsted on 26 November 1966.

Winifred Mabel Brunton (née Newberry) was a South African painter, illustrator and Egyptologist. She married Guy Brunton in 1906 and studied with him at University College London. She painted water colour illustrations of Egyptian works of art through his influence, using objects such as those found in Tutankhamun’s tomb. She made a series of illustrations for two popular books with chapters written by various authors, Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt, 1926, and Great Ones of Ancient Egypt, 1929.

Christopher John Fuller is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1976, Fuller started conducting field research in the great temple of Madurai in Tamilnadu, southeast India, which is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Minakshi and her husband Sundareshwara (Shiva). Fuller has also researched and written extensively on popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the Tamil Brahmans, the history of Indian anthropology, and other topics.

Peter Lewis Shinnie was a British archaeologist and Nubiologist. Educated at Westminster School and Oxford, he served in the RAF during the Second World War before beginning his archaeological career in Sudan. He researched the ancient Nubian civilisation of Meroe, established Khartoum’s antiquities museum and founded the journal Kush. Subsequently, he worked in Uganda, Ghana and Canada, becoming a leading authority on African history and archaeology.