Clift , William , 1775-1849 , naturalist Owen , Sir , Richard , 1804-1892 , Knight , comparative anatomist and palaeontologist Blizard , Sir , William , 1743-1835 , Knight , surgeon Brodie , Sir , Benjamin Collins , 1783-1862 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Clift , William Home , 1803-1832 , museum curator Cline , Henry , 1750-1827 , surgeon Cooper , Sir , Astley Paston , 1768-1841 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Cooper , Bransby Blake , 1792-1853 , surgeon Cooper , William White , 1816-1886 , surgeon and oculist Guthrie , George James , 1785-1856 , surgeon Home , Sir , Everard , 1756-1832 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Keate , Robert , 1777-1857 , surgeon Lawrence , Sir , William , 1783-1867 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Skey , Frederic Carpenter , 1798-1872 , surgeon South , John Flint , 1797-1882 , surgeon Travers , Benjamin , 1783-1858 , surgeon

Clift , William , 1775-1849 , naturalist Owen , Sir , Richard , 1804-1892 , Knight , comparative anatomist and palaeontologist Blizard , Sir , William , 1743-1835 , Knight , surgeon Brodie , Sir , Benjamin Collins , 1783-1862 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Clift , William Home , 1803-1832 , museum curator Cline , Henry , 1750-1827 , surgeon Cooper , Sir , Astley Paston , 1768-1841 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Cooper , Bransby Blake , 1792-1853 , surgeon Cooper , William White , 1816-1886 , surgeon and oculist Guthrie , George James , 1785-1856 , surgeon Home , Sir , Everard , 1756-1832 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Keate , Robert , 1777-1857 , surgeon Lawrence , Sir , William , 1783-1867 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Skey , Frederic Carpenter , 1798-1872 , surgeon South , John Flint , 1797-1882 , surgeon Travers , Benjamin , 1783-1858 , surgeon

William Clift was born in 1775. He was apprenticed to John Hunter in 1792 and had sole charge of his museum after his death. He made copies of many of Hunter's manuscripts before the destruction of the originals by his brother-in-law Sir Everard Home. Clift was then conservator of the Hunterian Museum after the collection was transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1800. He continued in this role for nearly 50 years compiling an osteological catalogue of the museum and researching the collections. He died in 1849.

Sir Richard Owen was born in 1804. He studied at the University of Edinburgh Medical School from 1824. He moved to London and became apprenticed to John Abernethy, in 1825. He was made Assistant Curator to the Hunterian Museum, in 1826. Owen engaged in private practice, lectured in comparative anatomy, worked with the collections in the museum, founded various societies, and made discoveries such as the identification of a sub-order of Saurian reptiles which he named Dinosauria. Owen became Joint Conservator of the Hunterian Museum with William Clift, in 1842. Owen worked on the natural history collections of the British Museum, and campaigned for them to form a separate museum, which was opened in 1881 (now the Natural History Museum). Owen was knighted in 1884 and died in 1892.