Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw, born in Dublin, never had an academic post at a university, but his work during 75 years of excavations and restorations, particularly in Cyprus, as well as his writings, had an important influence on Byzantine studies. He prepared for a career in architecture at Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, earning a MA, but it was archaeology that captured his interest. “Peter,” as he was known to friends and colleagues, began archaeological work at the British School of Archaeology in Athens in 1932; when Cyprus became independent in 1935, he became director of the department of antiquities in Cyprus, at age 26, a post he held till 1960. In 1951 he received the honor of Commander of the British Empire. From 1960 to 1968 he was director of the British School at Athens, then spent many years between the Harvard Center for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. and the Byzantine Institute of America in Istanbul, where he was acting field director.

Kenneth Meek was born in Cornwall, England, and came to Canada in 1914. He earned his L.Mus. from McGill in 1927 and a B.Mus. from Toronto in 1936. He taught organ, piano and theory in Ottawa (1924- 1939) and Kingston (1940-1944) before moving to Montréal to become an instructor in piano and organ and a lecturer in theory at McGill (1945). He was later promoted to an instructor in music (1952-1966) and Assistant Professor (1966-1973). In the meantime, Meek served as organist at the Church of St Andrew and St Paul (1945-1956), Christ Church Cathedral (1956-1965) and the Church of the Messiah (1965-1976). He was also a recitalist and composer. Meek passed away in 1976.

Fielding Bradford Meek was born on December 10, 1817, in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.

He was an American geologist, paleontologist, and author. In early life, he was in business as a merchant, but when he started to lose his hearing, he devoted most of his leisure time to collecting fossils and studying the rocks. In 1848, he was made assistant to Dr. David Dale Owen and helped organize the U.S. Geological Survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In 1852, he became assistant to Prof. James Hall at Albany, New York, and worked at paleontology with him until 1858. In 1853, he accompanied Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden on an exploration of the badlands of Dakota and brought back valuable collections of fossils. They published many writings under the name “Meek & Hayden”. In 1858, Meek moved to Washington, D.C., and became a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. He was the author and co-author of several publications, e.g., "Carboniferous and Jurassic fossils" (1864) and “Report on the Invertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country" (1876).

He died on December 21, 1876, in Washington, District of Columbia.

Sir William Coles Paget Medlycott was born on June 6, 1831, in Milborne Port, Somerset, England.

He was the 3rd Baronet of the Medlycott family who lived in the famous Ven House in Sherborne, England. He was a naturalist and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He used to visit Malta frequently to study and draw its natural history and also to hunt and collect birds. Medlycott's main published contribution to Maltese natural history is an appendix (X) entitled "Notes on the Geology, Botany, and Natural History of Malta" in “Malta: Past and Present” (1870). He also published an undated catalogue of birds entitled "Catalogue of the Birds of Malta with their English and Maltese Names". In the course of carrying out research for the publication "History of Ornithology in Malta", Medleycott's very accurate pencil sketches and water-colour drawings of the Malta plants and animals were discovered in the Natural History Museum in London. After Meddleycott’s death, they were donated to the museum by his nephew Sir Hubert Mervyn Medlycott. Apart from visiting Malta, he also travelled to several other countries including North America where he made a similar collection of sketches and water-colour drawings of plants, birds and fishes.

He died on January 8, 1887, in Weymouth, Dorset, England.