Alan was born on a farm near Calgary, Alberta in 1939, the second of the three children of Collier and Marjory (née Fleming) Lambert Maberly. His father was a teacher and part-time farmer.

He studied Opthalmology at Toronto University (1968-1971) and has written a number of published papers on the subject.

He is currently a Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia and lives in Vancouver with his wife Helen.

He has a son David A.L. Maberley, who has followed in his father's footsteps as an eye surgeon, and a daughter Lisa.

Alfred Elias was born Alfred Elias LAMBERT on Jan 16th,1858 in Camden Town, Middlesex, UK, the son of John and Sarah (née Colyer) Lambert. His father was a plumber and house painter. He attended the Westminster Choir School in London at the age of 12 and 13.

At some time around 1883 he left England for Kimberley, South Africa, centre of the diamond mining industry. Here he bought a farm (Klein Karee Pan) and in 1885 married local girl Martha Gertrude Mathewson. Six of their ten children were born on the farm.

In 1898 he announced his discovery of gold on the farm and £15,000 was raised locally to exploit the claim.

Around 1905 he returned with his family to London where the last of his children was born before emigrating again, this time to Calgary, Alberta. After declaring he was going to help fight in the Mexican revolutionary wars he set off southwards and was never seen by his family again. He apparently met and "married" a woman (Elizabeth Shirley) in California in 1925 and died in Los Angeles on Mar 9th 1943.

Allan was born on May 2nd,1922 in Australia into the large family of builder Egbert Henry Maberly. He became a missionary in Kalimpong on the border of India and Tibet, where he founded a Christian church.

He spoke fluent Nepalese and Tibetan and in 1971 wrote "And God Spoke Tibetan", the story of the translation of the Bible into Tibetan.

Brandon was born, together with his twin sister Belinda, in 1968 in Porthcawl, Glamorgan to Roderick and Yvonne (née Edwards) Mably. He initially trained as a chef and moved to London.

In London he met the knitwear designer Kaffe Fassett and joined his studio in 1989, becoming Studio Manager and Fassett's Personal Assistant. He travels a great dealing, running training workshops all over the world and has written several books on knitwear design.

He now lives with his sister in a cottage in Rye, Kent.

Cecil, universally known as Cyril, was born in Kent in 1923 to Henry Leonard and Mary (née Wright) Mapley, the eldest of seven children. After a few years as a sewing machine salesmen he spent most of his life as a teacher of Engineering Drawing and Design at Tunbridge Wells Grammar School, earning an entry in the 1985 Guinness Book of Records as Britain's most successful teacher for getting 49 out of 53 16-year-old children through their 'A' Level in Technical Drawing after only 80 hours of teaching.

He was also an able self-taught musician who spent 68 years in showbusiness as a keyboard player and entertainer and with his wife, whom he taught to play drums, ran highly popular tea dances throughout Kent.

He died in Tunbridge Wells on Sep 27th, 2007. He had married Glenys Shearsby in Burton-on Trent, where he briefly taught, in 1952.

Charles Thomas Astley was the eldest of the three children of Charles James Astley and Margaret née Goodman. He developed an interest in natural history at an early age, writing and publishing "Nature Studies of a Boy Naturalist" whilst still at school at Repton.

At the age of 18 he moved to South Africa to live with a farming family near the Kruger National Park in which he spent a lot of time. He then bought his own farm near Duiwelskloof, called "Narina" after a bird of the veldt, which he ran as a wildlife sanctuary.

He wrote a number of books on wild animals (Animals of Rhodesia in 1959, Animals of East Africa in 1966, Game Animals of South Africa in 1967), illustrated a number of books by other writers such as Bulpin and Wolhuter and painted a great deal of the local wildlife.

He was stabbed to death by an intruder in 1972. He had married Doris Burman in 1939 from whom he was divorced in 1961. They had no children.

Christopher Richards was born in 1836 in St. Minver, Cornwall to William and Mary née Richards Mably. His first wife, Catherine, bore him at least 8 children of whom only two or three girls survived to adulthood. Around 1875 he married Katherine Morice Hull (with whom he had another 6 children) and in 1877 emigrated to America.

There he opened a chain of clothing stores across Michigan, Illinois and Ohio which were so successful that he was soon able to commission the tallest building in Detroit (14 floors) as his flagship store but died in 1885 before it could be completed. The building was renamed the Majestic because of the letter Ms (for Mabley) carved into the stonework.

After his early death he was interred with his early children in the family vault in Oak Hill Cemetery, Pontiac which in 2002 was famously vandalised by an entrepreneurial local using it as a lockup.

David Alan is the son of Alan Lambert Maberley the respected eye surgeon (qv) and great-grandson of Alfred Elias Collier Lambert Maberley (qv).

He has been appointed Head of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia, effective  2013. He also heads the ophthalmology component of the British Columbia Diabetes Telemedicine project and is a scientific advisor to the National Aboriginal Diabetes Association and sits on board of the National Coalition of Vision Health. He has expertise and performs research in the medical and surgical management of: diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, macular holes, complex retinal detachments, and high myopia. He is President of the Canadian Retina Society and on the board of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society.

Edwin Darrell was born in the United States, the son of Professor James Edwin and Elizabeth Maberly and grandson of an emigrant from the UK to New York. He is married to Raylene and they have two daughters, Lara Shaye and Trisha Marie.

He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1978 and has taught in the MBA programme at the University of Wyoming, International University of Japan, University of Auckland and University of South Carolina. His main area of teaching interest is Investment and International Finance.

Professor Maberly has published over 30 refereed articles in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Finance Analysts Journal. He is currently teaching at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Glen is a native of Sydney, Australia, the son of Francis Thomas and Ethel née Thrift. He trained as a doctor, gaining his M.D. at the University of New South Wales in 1983. He later became Director of Endocrinology at Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia's largest teaching hospital.

In 1990 he moved to Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia where he is currently professor and chair of the Department of International Health of the Rollins School of Public Health. He also directs the UNICEF sponsored Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition, a global effort to eradicate vitamin A, iodine and iron dietary deficiencies which has been very successful in promoting the universal iodisation of salt in third world countries.

He was married to (but is now divorced from) Diane née Bennett with whom he had three children, Anita, Karina and James.

James was born in Kenya in 1956, the eldest child of John Edward and Eve née Chauvel and was brought up in what is now Zimbabwe, attending the Plumtree School in Matabeleland. At 19 he went to England to join the British Army and after a year at Sandhurst Military Academy spent 4 years in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. He then returned to southern Africa and worked in various countries in the field of transport

.In 1988 he elected to go to England again but this time to study art. After several years of study at both the Ipswich and Norwich Schools of Art he was awarded a B.A.(Hons) degree in Fine Art and now paints and sculpts, primarily studies of animals and birds, from a studio in Suffolk, holding regular exhibitions of his work. He also lectures on sculpture at the University College of Sussex in Ipswich. He has recently undertaken a leading role in the Zimbabwe Agricultural Welfare Trust, a UK charity set up to support Zimbabwean farm workers suffering from the Mugabe government reforms.

He married Veronica Rous in 1989. They have 4 children.

"Jack" Mabley was born on October 26th, 1915 in Binghamton, New York State to Clarence Ware Mabley (born Clarence Ware Mable) and Mabelle née Howe, a concert pianist.

After studying journalism at the University of Illinois he started on a long career as a reporter and columnist for several Chicago newspapers prior to taking up a long-standing post as the well-respected columnist of the Chicago Tribune, writing some 8000 columns on a wide range of issues. In his later years he became columnist of the suburban Chicago Daily Herald from which he finally retired in 2004 at around 90 years of age.In addition to his journalistic career, Jack operated a corporate communications business from his adopted home town of Chicago, hosting a nightly radio show. He also served as president of the Chicago suburb of Glenview for a number of years.The Jack Mabley Development Center in Dixon, IL, a state run residential home for the mentally disabled, is named after him in honour of his generous support and fundraising activities. His autobiography entitled "Halas, Hef, the Beatles and Me" was published in 1967.

He died in Chicago on 6th Jan 2006. He had married Frances Habeck on 29th Aug 1940 and had four children Jill, Ann, Pat and Robert.

Kate was born March 14th, 1982 in Reigate, Surrey, UK.

She gained international recognition in 1993 for her acting role as the juvenile lead in the movie The Secret Garden. She then had important roles in The Langoliers (1995), Friendships Field (1995) and Gullivers Travels (1996) before acting opposite Omar Sharif in the movie Mysteries of Egypt (1998). Her latest film role was as Wendy Darling in the Peter Pan film Finding Neverland released in 2004.

She has also appeared in a number of TV productions including Mothertime (1997) and more recently as Princess Alice in Victoria and Albert. She has also, like her elder sister Polly, appeared in the TV series Midsomer Murders.

Kate has also provided the narration for a number of talking books and promotional videos, winning at least one award. She plays piano and cello to a high standard.

Norman Charles was born on the 16th Mar 1926 in Auckland, New Zealand, the youngest child of Egbert Henry and Mabel Irene née Gisby. He attended the local Otahuhu College.

He emigrated to the United States and attended the University of Southern California, gaining an Ed.E degree. He later became an Emeritus Professor in Educational Research at the La Sierra Adventist University in southern California.

He married Phyllis Moselen in Washington on 28 Sep 1951. They have a married daughter Linda Ellen, married to Thomas Morphis.

He published Mastering Speed Reading in 1966.

Stephen was born in 1745, the son of John and Amelia (née Dixon) Maberly. He became a currier by trade, the skilled craft for finishing leather to a high quality. He married Mary Boot, daughter of Obadiah Boot, in 1770, with whom he had six children.

As a young man he had served in the Royal Navy and fought at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 under Admiral Rodney, when a squadron of the British Navy captured or sank the entire French fleet.

With his brother John he set up in business as a coach currier in Little Queen Street in Holborn. In June 1782, during the vicious Gordon Riots, after he had attempted to prevent the mob from burning down the Sardinian Ambassador's chapel the rioters in retaliation burned down his house and business premises.

He is recorded as having bought the manor of Inhurst at Baughurst, near Newbury, in the 1760s.

He spent the last 30 years of his life living in Reading. In his later years he became a Dissenter and built a chapel (1826) in Balls Pond Road, Dalston, London named after him as the Maberly Chapel.

He died on Jun 3rd 1831 at his home in Reading. He is buried with his wife in the Boot family vault at the Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds in London together with other members of the Boot, Maberly and Pellatt families.

Currently head of Phyto-limnology [i.e.study of freshwater plant life] Division of the government funded Centre for Ecology and Hydrology based on the shore of Lake Windermere in the English Lake District.

He studied botany and zoology at Reading University and gained a Ph.D at St Andrews University.

He has published many papers in his area of interest and was the 1992 winner of the Luigi Provasoli award for the best paper published in the Journal of Phycology.

He married Catherine Mawer in 1981. They have two children.

Thomas (professionally known as Luke Mably) was born Mar 1st,1976 in the Camberwell area of London. His father Colin was an English teacher and his mother (née Lynne Benton) a librarian. He has two older siblings.

He trained as an actor at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama and secured in 1999 a recurring role in the television hospital series Holby City.

His first film role was in the 2003 zombie film 28 days Later but his major break came with the leading part in 2004 as the Prince of Denmark in the film The Prince and Me. His next film, due for release in 2004, is Colour Me Kubrick.

Thomas was born in Lancashire, UK, the son of William Maberly and Ellen (nee Bland) Hassal and thus the great-grandson of Elizabeth Maberly of Godalming and Nantwich. He moved to Christchurch, New Zealand where he married Emma Cooper on Nov 28th, 1860. They had several children at their home in Opawa.

He became one of the leading early merchants until becoming bankrupt in 1870. Both Hassals Lane and Hassals Spur in Christchurch are named after him. Christchurch cathedral has a three-light window to his memory honouring his services to the Church as a synodsman, trustee of The Church Property Trust Estate, and member of the Clergy Pension Board.

He was also German Consul in Christchurch.

Margaret was born on February 3rd 1910 in Colac,Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Robert Frederick and Fanny Isobel (Hope) Maberly-Smith. She trained as a teacher.

In 1937 she moved to India where she met and married engineer Crawford Gordon. On their way by boat to England in 1942 they were torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the South Atlantic and Crawford was drowned. Margaret was one of only two survivors after drifting in a liferaft for 52 days and was awarded the British Empire Medal for her bravery.

After a few years as a librarian in New York she returned in 1946 to Australia to become a nationally known children's librarian.

She was remarried to Roy Ingham.

Dayrell Reed Oakley-Smith was born in 1898 in Kimberley, South Africa, the son of Archibald and Catherine (née Longhurst) Oakley-Hill. As such he was the grandson of Marianne Maberly (1831-1913) who married Edwin Longhurst and moved to South Africa. He joined the army, completed his military training at Sandhurst, and served with the Indian Army in Mesopotamia from November 1917 until after the end of World War I. He attained the rank of Colonel.

He was recruited for the Albanian mission in 1929 and served principally in Elbasan, where he learned Albanian and travelled extensively. He was among the British officers who were assigned the task of organizing the Albanian police force (Gendarmerie) in the 1930s under the direction of General Sir Jocelyn Percy. He was forced to leave Albania with the withdrawal of all the British officers in November 1938. During the early years of World War II, he worked for the Special Operations Executive in Belgrade and Kosova as a specialist for Albanian affairs to help organize the resistance. He was obliged to surrender to the Germans in Belgrade in 1941 and was held as a prisoner of war until October 1943. At the end of World War II, he headed the mission of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) to Albania to provide humanitarian assistance there until work became impossible and he resigned in 1946. From January 1951 to 1955, he was posted to the British Embassy in Athens and worked for M16. In later years, he served as chairman of the Anglo-Albanian Association in London.

His memoirs have been published by The Centre for Albanian Studies in the volume “An Englishman in Albania: Memoirs of a British Officer, 1929-1955,” from which this extract is taken.

Tara was born on Dec 23rd 1971 to landowners Charles and Patricia (née Dawson) Palmer-Tomkinson of Dummer Grange near Basingstoke in Hampshire. Her father, the great-great-great-grandson of John Maberly (the father of Maberly Street), was a former Olympic skier and High Sheriff of Hampshire. Tara attended various boarding schools as a child and then took a modelling course in London. Her modelling career took off and this, together with her close friendship with the Royal Family and her continual partygoing, earned her celebrity status via numerous TV appearances and magazine articles and the title of the IT girl.

She has written a regular gossip column in a UK national newspaper and recently took part in a reality TV series in the Australian jungle. An accomplished pianist, she has also played classical piano with a Symphony Orchestra in a charity concert.

Apsley Pellatt was born in 1791, the third child and eldest son of Apsley Pellatt and Mary (née Maberly). At 21 he joined his father's speciality glassworks of Pellatt and Green and in 1819 patented the technique of encasing small figurines in glass called Cameo Incrustations or Sulphides for which he are primarily remembered. On his father's death in 1826 Apsley took over the company and changed its name to Apsley Pellatt.

He wrote a book in 1821 on glass making, reworked in 1849 as "Curiosities of Glassmaking". He had married Sophonia Kemp in 1814 and then Margaret Elizabeth Evans on Sep 3rd 1816, by whom he had 5 children. He died on Aug 17th, 1863.

Henry Mill Pellatt was born in Kingston, Ontario on Jan 6th, 1859. He was the eldest son of well-to-do immigrant Captain Henry Mill Pellatt and a great-grandson of Mary Maberly, the sister of John Maberly, the Father of Maberly Street. The family moved to Toronto when Henry Mill was 2 years old. There he attended the exclusive Upper Canada College, joined his father's stockbroking firm of Pellatt and Osler in 1876 and married society girl Mary Dodgson (Jun 15th, 1882). Quite an athlete, he was the fastest miler in North America as a young man.

Following a series of very lucrative investments in land and railways and with the aid of a monopoly to supply electric street lighting to Toronto he was by the age of 30 a very rich and powerful man with a fortune worth, in today's terms, some $400 million. Around 1909 he commissioned the building of a mansion in Toronto in the style of a European castle which was completed in 3 years at a cost of $3.5 million ($40 million today). Henry Mill and his wife moved into the palatial residence, Casa Loma, in 1914 but within a few years financial reverses and the cost of upkeep had ruined him. After his wife's death in 1924 he moved to a small house in the suburbs with his chauffeur where he died virtually penniless on Mar 8th, 1939 but nevertheless received the largest funeral ever seen in Toronto. He was survived by his only child, Reginald, born in 1885. He had married a second time in 1927 to Catharine Welland Merritt who died in 1929.

He had received a knighthood in 1905 for his active support of the Queens Own Rifles (of which he ultimately became Colonel) and made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1910. He was also a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

Casa Loma is now a major tourist attraction.

Charles English Hyde Villiers was born on Aug 14th, 1912 to Algernon Hyde Villiers and Beatrix Paul and as such was the great-grandson of Mary Maberly (1822-1891), the daughter of John Maberly and Anne Baillie.

After graduating from New College, Oxford he joined the Grenadier Guards and became a lieutenant-colonel during WWII, serving with the SOE from 1943-45 and being awarded the Military Cross. After the war he was a director of a number of major British companies, becoming chairman of British Steel from 1976-80. He was an officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and a Grand Officer of the Belgian Order of Leopold.

He married twice and had two sons and two daughters. His eldest daughter Diana is married to John Negroponte, American Deputy Secretary of State. He died on Jan 22nd, 1992