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British architect and illustrator Philip Hepworth was trained from 1906-1910 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He then assisted London architect Walter Frederick Cave and travelled in France. He passed his qualifying exam with the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1911 and, with a scholarship from the RIBA, spent time in Rome in 1914. World War I interrupted this travel. After serving during World War I, the young lieutenant with the Royal Engineers returned to pursue his architectural career in England. A 1931 illustrated book by Trystan Edwards, part of a series on the foremost architects of the time, showcased Hepworth’s work and brought him recognition. His first important work was designing a town hall complex for the borough of Walthamstow (known as the Waltham Forest Town Hall); he earned this commission in 1932 by winning an architectural competition that the municipality had proposed in 1929. After the next war broke out, being too old for active duty, he served in the Home Guard. He also served on the committee of the Royal Academy of Art that was planning for the post-blitz rebuilding of London. In 1944, he was appointed as one of the chief architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission. In this capacity, he designed several war memorials, including the Bayeux Memorial and the Dunkirk Memorial. He also designed many cemeteries for British war dead in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert was born on April 3, 1880, in Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England.

He was a British diplomat, politician, traveller, and intelligence officer. He suffered from poor eyesight and became almost blind by his early 40s. He scraped through the Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. A renowned traveller, especially in the Middle East, he spoke French, Italian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and Albanian. In 1902, he became an honorary attaché at the embassy in Tokyo and, in 1904, in Constantinople. In 1911, Herbert was elected a Conservative Member of Parliament, a post he held for the rest of his life. In 1910, he married Mary Gertrude Vesey (1889–1970). He became a passionate advocate of Albanian independence, having visited the country in 1907, 1911, and 1913. He acted as an adviser to the Albanian delegates at the 1912–1913 London Balkan Peace Conference. At the outbreak of World War I, despite very poor eyesight, Herbert joined the Irish Guards and served in a supernumerary position. In 1915, he became part of the British Intelligence Department in Cairo. He was sent on an intelligence mission into the eastern Mediterranean and spent the rest of the war in Mesopotamia, Salonika, and Italy. In 1923, at a Balliol College annual dinner, he met his old tutor, A. L. Smith, who advised him that the best cure for blindness was teeth extraction. Following this advice, Herbert developed blood poisoning and died on September 23, 1923, in London, England.

Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert was born on June 12, 1831, in Brighton, Sussex, England.

He was the 1st Premier of Queensland, Australia. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1854; B.C.L., 1856; D.C.L., 1862). He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in April 1858. In 1859, Sir George Bowen, governor of the new colony of Queensland, chose Herbert as a private secretary, eventually becoming the Colonial Secretary of Queensland and the 1st and 3rd Premier of Queensland (10 December 1859 – 1 February 1866; 20 July 1866 – 7 August 1866). Afterward, Herbert returned to England and in 1870, he became an Assistant Under-Secretary for the Colonies. In 1871, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the position he held for 21 years with great distinction. In 1882, he was created K.C.B., and in 1892, G.C.B. In the same year, he was appointed chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He left the colonial office in 1892 and in 1893-1896, he was Agent-General for Tasmania. He did active work in connection with the formation of the British Empire League. He became Chairman of the Tariff Commission in 1903.

He died on May 6, 1905, in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, England.