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Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd was born on November 9, 1865, in East Grinstead, Sussex, England.

He was a British physician, educator, and writer. In 1888, he graduated from Oxford University with a degree in classics. Then he studied medicine at the King's College Hospital Medical School in London, graduating in 1894. The same year he founded the Musical Society at Oxford. He worked at the King's College Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Children, the Royal Free Hospital, National Provident Institution, and the Life Association of Scotland. At the turn of the 19th century, he became Registrar to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), a position he retained for thirteen years. Crawfurd delivered the Fitzpatrick Lectures (1911–1912) and, in 1919, was Harveian Orator. He also lectured on pathology and on Materia medica at the London School of Medicine for Women. In 1913, he became a major contributor at an International Conference on postgraduate medical education. Crawfurd was also a member of the Board of Examiners at the RCP, the chairman of the Medical Graduates’ College, and the Epsom College. In 1933, he was awarded a knighthood. He is the author of the books “The Last Days of Charles II” (1909), “The King's Evil” (1911) and “Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art” (1914).

In 1898, he married Ethelberta Ormrod Bailey (1866–1950). He died on March 9, 1938, in London, England.

Joseph Crawhall II was the son of Joseph Crawhall (1793-1853), an amateur artist, lithographer, and ropery business owner in Newcastle-upon-Type. Joseph Crawhall the second was born in Newcastle in 1821 and a writer and artist, heavily influenced by early modern woodcuts and the work of Thomas Bewick.

Carl Hermann Credner was born on October 1, 1841, in Gotha, Thüringen, Germany.

He was a geologist and author who played a major role in the development of the modern earth sciences. After his studies of mining, mineralogy and geology, the University of Göttingen awarded him a doctorate in 1864. From 1864 to 1868, he made extensive geological investigations in North and Central America, the results of which were published in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, and the Neues Jahrhuch für Mineralogie. In 1870, he was appointed professor of geology at the University of Leipzig, and in 1872, director of the Geological Survey of Saxony. The same year, his textbook entitled “Elemente der Geologie” (“Elements of Geology”) was published for the first time. Credner’s main areas of work focussed on the geological mapping of Saxony and paleontological studies about Stegocephalia as well as macroscopic and instrumental observations of earthquakes. In 1911, the “Hermann-Credner-Stiftung” (Hermann Credner Foundation) was founded in his honour.

In 1888, he married Emma Geller (1862–1914). He died on July 21, 1913, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.