Consden was at the Wool Industries Research Association at Leeds with A.J.P. Martin.
Elsden was an undergraduate contemporary of R. L. M. Synge at Cambridge and his lifelong friend. After a year's research in Cambridge with Marjorie Stephenson, Elsden obtained an Assistant Lectureship in the Physiology Department, University of Edinburgh. He returned to Cambridge in 1943 and after a period in California in 1946 (Berkeley and Stanford) moved to Department of Bacteriology, University of Sheffield in 1948. Elsden subsequently became Honorary Director of the ARC Unit for Microbiology and Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield where he remained until 1965. He was Director of the ARC Food Research Insitute, Norwich, 1965-1977.
T. F. H. Pethick was born at Ventnor in 1907. In September 1935 he married Denise Joyce Clark in Chelsea.
When Haile Selassie, who was said to be well-known to Pethick's aunt Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, visited Ventnor in 1938, Pethick and his wife accompanied him to the cinema (Isle of Wight Mercury, 27 May and 4 June 1938).
He died in Surrey in 1981.
Marston was Chief of Division, CSIRO Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition, University of Adelaide, Australia, 1945-1965.
Anderson was head of the Department of Soil Organic Chemistry at the Macaulay lnstitute for Soil Research, Aberdeen.
Annison was based at the Agricultural Research Council lnstitute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, 1953-1957, later working in Australia.