Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein". Clive was born in St. Malo, France to a British colonel and attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor.

Warren Hastings (December 6 1732 - August 22 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously impeached in 1787 for corruption, and acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814. Hastings was born at Churchill, Oxfordshire. He attended Westminster School before joining the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident (administrative in charge) of Murshidabad.

Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, KB (29 September 1725 - 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key figures in the creation of British India.

Yorke Sherwood was an actor. He was born on December 14, 1873 in England, and died on September 27, 1956 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

William Erskine (8 November 1773 - 28 May 1852) was a Scottish orientalist and historian. The son of David Erskine and his wife Jean Melvin, he was born in Edinburgh. He received a doctorate in law and went to Bombay (now Mumbai) India in 1804 where he was master in equity in the recorder's court of Bombay. He married Maitland Mackintosh, daughter of James Mackintosh by his first wife Katherine Stuart in 1809 in Madras (now Chennai) and they had two daughters, …