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Charles James Monk was born at Peterborough in 1824, the son of James Henry Monk and Jane Smart Monk, née Hughes. He attended Eton and was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 9 July 1842, becoming a Fellow Commoner on 18 October 1843. He was Browne Medallist in 1845 and graduated BA in 1847 and MA in 1850. In 1850 he married Julia Ralli. Monk was admitted at Lincoln’s Inn in 1845 and called to the Bar in 1855. In the latter year his father made him Chancellor of Bristol and Vice-Chancellor of Gloucester – he became Chancellor of Gloucester in 1859 – holding both Chancellorships until 1885. In April 1859 he was elected Liberal MP for Gloucester, but was unseated on petition. He represented the constituency from 1865 to 1885 and from 1895 until just before his death in 1900.

Julia Monk was born in 1860, the daughter of C J Monk. She died, unmarried, in 1951. Throughout the Second World War she worked for the WVS in London, although she was already in her eightieth year when war broke out.

See O.13.19, No. 112, and O.13.20, No. 3. The London and County Directory of 1811 lists a Mrs Blackwell at 6 Seymour Place, Mayfair. She may have been connected with the engraver Charles Theodosius Heath, who later lived at that address. Mrs Blackwell wrote to Dawson Turner in 1820 in connection with George Graham Blackwell (d. 1838), then at Oxford, who paid a visit to the Turners during the long vacation of that year.

Dawson Turner was born and spent much of his life at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He was admitted as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1793, but returned to Yarmouth before graduating, in order to take his place in the family banking business.

For some years Turner's chief interest was botany, particularly mosses, and he published several works on the subject and corresponded with many of the notable botanists of his day. In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales. He was a Fellow of various learned bodies, including the Royal Society, the Linnaean Society, and the Society of Antiquaries.

In 1796 Turner married Mary Palgrave, by whom he had eight surviving children. Mary Turner and her daughters were talented amateur artists; they were tutored in drawing by John Sell Cotman and also mastered the arts of etching and lithography. Between them they produced a significant number of sketches and prints, especially portraits and architectural studies, examples of which were often used by their father to embellish his books.