Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He was an influential art teacher and a surgeon.

He was one of the first British artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists; he exhibited with the New English Art Club, and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian Britain, including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen.

Tonks was born in Birmingham. After being educated at Clifton College, he studied medicine at Brighton (1882–85) and London Hospital (1885–1888). After qualifying he became a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London; but from 1888 he studied under Frederick Brown at Westminster School of Art in the evenings.

From 1892, he taught at the Slade School of Fine Art, (from 1918 to 1930 as Slade Professor of Fine Art) where he became "the most renowned and formidable teacher of his generation". Pupils of Tonks at the Slade included William Lionel Clause,Ian Fairweather,Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore, Augustus John, Mukul Dey, Gwen John, Edna Clarke Hall, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Stanley Spencer, Rex Whistler, Mark Gertler, David Bomberg, and Isaac Rosenberg. His sarcasm there drove F. M. Mayor's sister Alice to leave before completing her training. As a student Paul Nash, recalled Tonks’ withering manner:

Pat Barker CBE, FRSL (born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres around themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, The Observer named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels".

Barker was born to a working class family in Thornaby-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. Her mother Moyra died in 2000, and her father's identity is unknown. According to The Times, Moyra became pregnant “after a drunken night out while in the Wrens,” and, in a climate where illegitimacy was regarded with shame, told people that the resulting child was her sister, rather than her daughter. They lived with Barker's grandmother Alice and step-grandfather William, until her mother married and moved out when Barker was seven. Barker could have joined her mother, she told The Guardian in 2003, but chose to stay with her grandmother "because of love of her, and because my stepfather didn't warm to me, nor me to him". Her grandparents ran a fish and chip shop which failed and the family was, she told The Times in 2007, “poor as church mice; we were living on National Assistance – ‘on the pancrack’, as my grandmother called it”. At the age of eleven she won a place at grammar school, attending Kings James Grammar School in Knaresborough and Grangefield Grammar School in Stockton-on-Tees.

Hugh Cecil Saunders (14 December 1892 – 1974) was a celebrated English photographer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, who practised under the professional name of Hugh Cecil.

Hugh Cecil Saunders received his education at Tonbridge School and Queens' College Cambridge where he became interested in photography. At the Cambridge Photographic Society, he exhibited a number of landscapes, some of which were singled out for high quality and bestowed with medals.

Upon graduation, Saunders served as an apprentice with the prominent Sevenoaks photographer H. Essenhigh Corke. In 1912 he moved to London and, dropping his surname, set up as a professional portrait photographer at 100 Victoria Street.

Hugh Cecil's photographs appeared regularly in the Daily Sketch and Tatler magazines, and his reputation as a fashionable photographer quickly grew. His early style was characterised by an elegant simplicity. Cecil moved to 8 Grafton Street in 1923—designing and furnishing an elaborately decorated studio, he often used patterned backdrops and lit the subject using soft reflected light.

Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki; 1901–1973) was an American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He was particularly active during the Depression and World War II era.

Philip Evergood was born in New York City. His mother was English and his father, Miles Evergood, was an Australian artist who, in 1915, changed his name from Blashki to Evergood. Philip Evergood's formal education began in 1905. He studied music and by 1908 he was playing the piano in a concert with his teacher.

He attended different English boarding schools starting in 1909 and was educated mainly at Eton and Cambridge University. In 1921 he decided to study art, left Cambridge, and went to London to study with Tonks at the Slade School.

In 1923 Evergood went back to New York where he studied at the Art Students League of New York for a year. He then returned to Europe, worked at various jobs in Paris, painted independently, and studied at the Académie Julian, both with André Lhote and with Stanley William Hayter; Hayter taught him engraving.

Anna Airy (1882–1964) was an oil painter, pastel artist and etcher, working in Britain.

She was born in Greenwich, London, daughter of engineer Wilfrid Airy and Anna née Listing, and granddaughter of Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy.

She attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she was taught by Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer.

She drew her subject matter from London criminals and 'lowlife'.

She published The Art of Pastel.

Anna Airy was one of the first women officially commissioned as a war artist. In June 1918 the Munitions Committee of the Imperial War Museum commissioned four paintings by Airy representing typical scenes in four munitions factories. These include A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London (1918), featured in the Museum's 2011-2012 exhibition Women War Artists.