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John James Dower, 1825-1901, was a mapmaker, print seller, and publisher based in London. Dower was the heir to the more prominent London engraver and mapmaker John Crane Dower, 1791-1847. Dower worked with many prominent middle to late 19th century London map publishers including Weller, Cassell, Bacon, Petermann, and others. He was elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1854.

Canadian-born architect, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and at the Royal Academy in London. He designed several buildings in England including houses at Bagshot, Surrey (1914), the Earl Haig Memorial Homes, Meadow Head, Sheffield, Yorks. (1928–9), Broom Park and Huxhams Cross Houses, Dartington Hall, Devon (1932–3), and much else, but he is best known for the planning the second English Garden City, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. (1919–60). Besides laying out the whole plan of Welwyn, de Soissons designed a high proportion of its civic buildings, its early factories, and its housing where he introduced a pleasing Neo-Georgian style with a Colonial flavour.

Architect and town planner, born at Bowden Vale, Cheshire, 8 March 1868. After the first Town Planning Act in 1909, he became the first editor of the Town Planning Review, which promoted formal design in place of garden city vernacular. In September 1914, he became the first Professor of Town Planning at University College, London. He died 11 April 1946 in Hampshire.

Of Scottish descent, Baillie Scott was born in 23 October 1865 in Kent. He was a prominent architect in the arts and crafts movement and an influential contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. After his marriage to Florence Kate Nash, 1862–1939, Baillie Scott lived and worked predominently on the Isle of Man. In January 1895 Scott published an article entitled 'An ideal suburban house', the first of many, in 'The Studio'. Widely read in Europe and America, 'The Studio' was the leading progressive art magazine of the day. In the decade which followed Scott designed (and in most cases built) about a dozen houses and interiors in Europe and the United States, of which Landhaus Waldbühl at Uzwil in Switzerland (1907–11) was probably the most elaborate. Probably no British architect working in the domestic field was better known in Europe before the First World War than Scott. His book 'Houses and Gardens', which details his ideas on house design was published in 1906. He died 10 February 1945 in Brighton.

Rocque, John (1704?–1762), land surveyor and cartographer, was born in France. Between 1734 and 1740 Rocque established his name as a 'dessinateur des jardins', publishing elaborate plans of gardens, generally including views of the aristocratic houses to which they belonged and drawings of other garden features. These estates were mostly around London and included the royal parks and gardens at Richmond (1734), Kensington (1736), and Windsor (1738). Rocque's survey of London was planned with George Vertue, surveyed from 1738, engraved by John Pine, and published in twenty-four sheets in 1746. It was the outstanding plan of the capital in the eighteenth century. From 1754-1760 he worked in Dublin. From 1751 Rocque styled himself chorographer or topographer to the prince of Wales and from 1760 to the king. He died on 27 January 1762.

John Carey, 1861-1943, was an animal and figure painter as well as an illustrator who spent most of his in Belfast. He died on 26 April 1943. His brother Joseph W. Carey was also an artist and illustrator.

Alfred Brumwell Thomas was born in London, on 24 February 1868. He commenced practice about 1894, initially with his father, under the name of E. Thomas & Son, but later worked independently, adding the invented name Brumwell as a distinguishing feature. Thomas achieved notable success in competitions for large public buildings, beginning with Belfast city hall in 1896. Thomas's other main competition successes—Woolwich town hall (1899–1908) in south-east London and Stockport town hall (1903–6) in Cheshire, both of which were contemporary with Belfast—were designed in a similar idiom and faced in the same material, Portland stone. Following the completion of Belfast city hall, Thomas was knighted in 1906. He was a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and sometime president of the Architectural Association. He died on 22 January 1948.

Son of Thomas Malton the elder, 1726–1801, the English architect, draughtsman and writer on geometry, James Malton, 1761-1803, was a topographical artist, exhibiting some fifty-one drawings, designs for, and elevations of buildings at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1803. He is best known for 'Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin', a series of 25 prints originally published between 1792 and 1799.

The lithographer and artist William Gauci, fl.1825-1854, was the son of Maxim [Massimo] Gauci, 1774 -1854, a Maltese lithographer who was active in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, and the brother of Paul Gauci, fl. 1830s-1860s. His father Maxim was an early exponent of lithography for botanical illustration and ran a successful business in London, located at 9 North Crescent, Bedford Square, with the contribution of both his sons. Collectively they ranked among the leading lithographers of the day.

Alfred Hugh Mottram was born on 29 January 1886, the son of James Mottram and Fanny Ann. From March 1903, he served a 3 year apprentiship, with a further year as assistant, with George Faulkner Armitage in Altrincham near Manchester. He then joined the practice of Parker & Unwin in Hampstead Garden Suburb. After touring the English counties and sketching inns for a book which remained unpublished, Mottram travelled to Normandy in 1906 and 1909, Touraine in 1908, and Switzerland and Northern Italy in 1910. He was admitted to ARIBA in December 1911, beginning his own practice in 1912.

Mottram had gathered much garden city and town-planning experience with Parker & Unwin, and in September 1912 obtained a post with the Housing Reform Company Ltd in Cardiff, working on garden villages in South Wales. Three years later he relocated from Cardiff to Edinburgh, taking up position as architect to the Scottish National Housing Company Ltd, designing 1402 houses for the Rosyth Garden Suburb on the basis of layouts provided by Unwin. He continued to work for the Company and for the Second Scottish National Housing Company until 1939, whilst carrying on his own private practice. He was admitted to FRIBA in March of the same year.

Mottram was also the architect to the Edinburgh Welfare Housing Trust and the Edinburgh Housing Association. His RIBA obituarist notes that Mottram had 'considerable ability as an artist' and his illustrations appeared in several books, including some by his brother, the author Ralph Hale Mottram. He died on 12 March 1953.

Margaret B. Aitkenhead (known as Maggie) was educated at High Blantyre Public School. From there, she enrolled for a teacher training course at the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College in July 1886, having passed the entrance examination in the Second Class. She completed her two years of training and qualified for her teaching certificate at Christmas 1888.

Wanda Zamorska was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 9 June 1861. She was the second of six children of Albert Zamorski, a commission agent for elastics and silks, and his wife, Martha Grundy Zamorska (née Cooper). After her parents died, Wanda, who never married, shared a home in Glasgow with three of her siblings and appeared in the 1891 census of Scotland as a teacher of music.

In 1894, Wanda and her sisters, Elma and Alberta, enrolled for a summer evening course in botany at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (GWSTC - known from 1912 as the Royal Technical College (RTC), forerunner of the University of Strathclyde). Over the next four years, the trio returned for further evening studies in various scientific subjects, including an experimental physics class, for which Wanda gained second prize in session 1895-1896. Neither Elma nor Alberta pursued their studies beyond session 1896-1897, but Wanda enrolled for another evening class in botany in session 1897-1898, followed by a geology class in session 1898-1899. After a break of several years, she resumed her evening studies in session 1903-1904, taking bacteriology lecture course I and bacteriology laboratory course I. During this session, a new Lecturer in Botany and Bacteriology, Dr David Ellis, took up post, and soon recognized Wanda's abilities. She was appointed as a part-time assistant to Dr Ellis from 1 September 1904 at a salary of £13 per annum, thus becoming one of the few women involved in the teaching of scientific subjects at the GWSTC in this period. During session 1904-1905, Wanda also received a Kerr Bursary in Botany of £15, tenable for a maximum of three years. This award, combined with the remuneration from her part-time post, may have enabled her to reduce or give up her primary occupation as a teacher of music, as in session 1905-1906 she enrolled as a day student of the GWSTC for the first time.

Over the next decade, Wanda combined her part-time assistant’s role with attendance as a student at the GWSTC. She enrolled for classes in various scientific subjects, including day courses in organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry, and a special laboratory course in botany. She also qualified for first class certificates of merit (awarded for a final mark of over 80 percent) in most of her evening classes, including bacteriology lecture course II, bacteriology laboratory course II, pharmacy, materia medica, zoology lecture courses I and II, and zoology laboratory courses I and II. Her final enrolment as a student occurred in session 1914-1915, when she took the zoology special laboratory evening class.

In session 1906-1907, Wanda Zamorska was the senior of three part-time assistants attached to the Department of Botany and Bacteriology, alongside Miss Evelyne Gilmour and Mr George Russell. The assistants’ duties primarily involved preparing and conducting practical demonstrations for Dr Ellis’s classes. From 1907, the introduction of new vacation courses in botany for schoolteachers and courses in economic botany for grocers saw the assistants’ workload increase considerably, with Wanda’s salary rising to £25 by November of that year. In September 1911, Evelyne Gilmour resigned and her duties were absorbed by Wanda Zamorska, whose remuneration further increased to £45 per annum. By session 1916-1917, George Russell had also departed, leaving Wanda as the sole assistant in the Department of Botany and Bacteriology. This, together with the strains experienced by all staff in their efforts to keep classes going throughout the First World War, may have encouraged her to appeal to the RTC’s Committee on Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Natural Sciences. In September 1919, responding to a letter received from Wanda Zamorska, the Committee recommended that her salary be raised to £90 for the session and that Dr Ellis should make some arrangements to relieve her from day duties. One of these arrangements may have concerned her title, as the RTC Calendar for session 1920-1921 lists Miss Zamorska as ‘Demonstrator’ rather than ‘Assistant’ in the Department of Botany and Bacteriology.

By 1920, Dr David Ellis, Lecturer in Botany and Bacteriology, was also Superintendent of the RTC’s School of Pharmacy and had charge of the School of Bakery. To better manage the increasing workload within his department, in May 1923 Ellis requested that his six part-time assistants be replaced by two full-time assistants from session 1923-1924. The senior of these posts went to Wanda Zamorska, at a salary of £325 per annum. Thereafter, the RTC Annual Reports list her as Assistant Lecturer to Dr Ellis in the Department of Botany and Bacteriology and also as Assistant Lecturer in Botany within the School of Pharmacy. Although she appealed to the Committee on Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Natural Sciences for a further increase of salary in the summer of 1924, her request was not granted. Wanda Zamorska retired in the summer of 1926, aged 65, after 22 years of service to the GWSTC and the RTC. She died at the age of 90 on 26 November 1951.