For Sir Isaac Wolfson's distinctions and career see *Who's Who* 1990 and the excellent memoir by Lord Bullock in *Biographical memoirs of the Royal Society* 1994 423-7.

Sir William Shapland, an honorary fellow of the College, was born on 20 October 1912, the son of Arthur Frederick Shapland and Alice Maud née Jackson. Educated at Tollington School, he joined the firm of Allen Charlesworth & Co, chartered accountants. He was given the responsibility of dealing with

Hal Morton was born on 18 August 1905 in Port Greville, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Charles S Morton, a physician in Halifax, and Marie née Stafford. He was educated at St Andrews College, Toronto, and then Dalhousie University, where he became a member of the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity of Canada.

The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard S

Lord Wolfson was a businessman and an outstanding philanthropist. He was born in London, the only child of Edith and (later Sir) Isaac Wolfson, the son of Russian immigrants who had settled in Glasgow, and was educated at King’s School, Worcester. He succeeded to the Great Universal Stores business

Born on 1 July 1915, Lord Leverhulme was the grandson of the first Viscount, who began as a grocer and built up Lever Brothers as a worldwide business, establishing soap factories all over the world and pioneering the development of West Africa and the Congo. Philip Leverhulme was educated at Eton a

Born in Lincolnshire in 1877, Arthur Sims went to New Zealand with his parents at the age of three. In the then rugged pioneering days of that young country, those same parents spared nothing to ensure that his upbringing and education were the best possible under existing conditions. He responded w

Born in a log cabin at Almond, Portage County, 125 miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on 21 August 1853, the son of the Rev S C Wellcome and Mary Curtis, his wife; his father was a missionary working amongst the Indian tribes. The son attended the schools on the frontier, including one which was