Denny Henry L. L.:
Rev. Sir Henry L. L. Denny, Bt (1878-1953) was born and educated in Ireland. After ordination, he served in parishes in Ireland and then the south of England. He was an army chaplain in the first and second World Wars. He was vice-chairman of the Church Emigration Society and a member of the Council of Empire Settlement, taking an active part in emigration work between 1920 and 1936. He was a genealogist and an expert on Anglo-Irish genealogy and the editor of The Genealogical Magazine 1925-1931. He wrote extensively on genealogical and antiquarian subjects.Emmison F. G.:
F. G. Emmison (1907-1995) MBE, FSA, FRHistS began his career at Bedfordshire County Record Office under Dr Fowler, where he worked on the Bedfordshire Parish Registers series. He became Essex County Archivist in 1938. He was prominent in archive management and staff training. He did much to publicise archives through his writings on Essex history, including Tudor secretary: Sir William Petre at court and home (1961).Emmison Margaret:
Margaret Emmison (nee Langwill) (d. 1994) was, like her husband F. G. Emmison, an archivist. She was the first secretary of the Friends of Historic Essex, which supported Essex County Council in collecting and preserving the county’s records.Fowler G. Herbert:
Dr G. Herbert Fowler (1861-1940) was a zoologist working in London before he retired to Bedfordshire, where he became a county councillor and chairman of the county’s Records Committee in 1913. He immediately reformed the existing record room, established standard procedures and ran it as a public service, the first in the country. He was a founder member of BHRS in 1912 and its Secretary, General Editor and principal contributor to the annual volumes until his death. He also published extensively on sources in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere.
