William Harold Ingrams, OBE (1933), CMG (1939), was born in Shrewsbury, England, on 3 Feb 1897. After serving in World War I with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (1914-1918), he joined the Colonial Service as Assistant District Commissioner in Zanzibar (1919), later becoming 2nd Assistant Secretary (1925). In 1927, he was appointed Assistant Colonial Secretary in Mauritius, and for periods during 1932 and 1933 he was also Acting Colonial Secretary. He was transferred to Aden in 1934 to take up the post of Political Officer (1934-ca.1937). Ingrams left Aden for four years when he was appointed British Resident Adviser in Mukalla, Saudi Arabia (1937-1940); he returned to Aden in 1940 and held the posts of Acting Governor (1940), Chief Secretary to the Government of Aden (1940-1942), and Resident Adviser of the Hadhramaut States and British Agent in the Eastern Aden Protectorate (Yemen) (1942-1945).

Between 1945 and 1947, Ingrams was on secondment as Assistant Secretary of the Allied Control Commission for Germany (British Element). There followed posts as Chief Commissioner of the Northern Territories in the Gold Coast (Ghana) (1947-1948), Adviser on Overseas Information at the Colonial Office (1950-1954), and Editor of Commonwealth Challenge and If you ask me (1952-1966). Ingrams was also involved with missions to Gibraltar (1949), Hong Kong (1950), and Uganda (1956). His final post before retiring was in the Joint Research Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1966-1968).

Ingrams was awarded the Class IV Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (1927), the Lawrence Memorial Medal (awarded jointly with his wife in 1939), the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1940), and the Burton Memorial Medal (1943). He died on 9 Dec 1973.

Ingrams authored several works on Zanzibar, Mauritius, Arabia, Hong Kong, Uganda, and Yemen.

Sir William Newton, Kt (1905), KC (King's Counsel), was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1863 and served as a Member of the Council in Mauritius. He died on 6 Jul 1915.