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Dr Basil Gregory was born in 1920 into a medical family. He practised as a consultant psychiatrist at Horton Hospital for much of his working life. In 1962 he began an analysis and training with Paula Heimann. In the same year the Paddington Day Hospital opened and he became its first Director. The Centre was one of the first units to provide psychoanalytic therapy. It ran on democratic lines with the patients participating in its running. He worked there until 1970.

Dr Gregory was married and had 4 children. He died in 1990.

No information is known about the Schwarz/ Harding families. Little is known about Elisabeth Schwarz, except that she emigrated to the United Kingdom and became a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in around 1942. Lists published in the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' show that she lived in Oxford.

Ilse Hellman grew up as the youngest of three children in a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna. Her parents, Paul and Irene Hellman, were active in encouraging the arts and promoting talented musicians.

After completing a two-year course specialising in juvenile delinquency, Ilse Hellmann went to France and worked from 1931 in a home for young offenders near Paris. At the same time, she attended evening classes in psychology at the Sorbonne. From 1933 to 1935 she remained in Paris working at a centre for children with difficult backgrounds.

On returning to Vienna in 1935, Hellmann studied psychology under Charlotte Bühler. After graduating in 1937, she followed Bühler's invitation, to join her in a study of retarded children in London. During the Second World War Ilse Hellmann worked with children evacuated from London to escape the air raids. From 1942 till the end of the war, she joined Anna Freud to work at the Hampstead War Nurseries. The further development of these "war babies", separated from their parents and living in the therapeutic community of Hampstead, continued to be an object of her research during the following decades.

In 1942 Ilse Hellman began her psychoanalytic training at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis, her training analyst was Dorothy Burlingham. She became an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1945 and a full Member in 1952.

From 1955 onwards she was a training analyst and one of the leading figures in the Anna Freudian Group. After joining the staff at Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham's Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic, she conducted simultaneous analysis of mother and child. For some years she was in charge of the department for adolescents at Hampstead and directed, together with Liselotte Frankl, a research project on adolescence.

A collected works entitled 'From War Babies to Grandmothers: Forty-Eight Years in Psychoanalysis' was published in 1990.

After the war, Ilse Herman married the Dutch art historian, Arnold Noach (?-1976), who had survived the Nazi occupation of Holland. Their daughter Margaret (Maggie) Noach (1949-2006) was a well-known literary agent.

David Holbrook was a poet, writer and academic with a wide range of critical interests, including psychoanalysis.

William Samuel Inman was born in Yorkshire in 1875. In 1900 he went to London to study at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He moved to Portsmouth in 1904 and three years later he was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon at Portsmouth Eye and Ear Hospital, where he was based until his retirement in 1944. He was introduced to Freud's ideas on the unconscious by Dr Millais Culpin, with whom he worked during the First World War. His interest in psychoanalysis arose from his work on the causes of pathological problems in the eyes that might have emotional origins. His first paper, 'Emotions and Eye Symptoms' was published in 1921 and he first spoke before members of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1922. He was analysed by Sandor Ferenczi and elected as an associate member of the Society in 1925. He became a full member by special resolution in 1951. He continued his psychosomatic research work into old age through his contact with out-patients in Portsmouth. The papers in this collection reflect his interests in the psychosomatic links between clinical observations, particularly of the eye, and their mental underpinnings. He died in September 1968.

Susan Isaacs was born on 24 May 1885. She trained as a teacher and gained a degree in philosophy from Manchester University in 1912. Following a period as a research student at the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge, she was Lecturer at Darlington Training College from 1913 to 1914 and then Lecturer in Logic at Manchester University from 1914 to 1915. After analysis with J C Flugel in 1920-1921, she travelled to Vienna for analysis with Otto Rank in 1921. Between 1924 and 1927, she was Head of Malting House School, Cambridge, an experimental school that fostered the individual development of children, where she carried out her pioneering research in child development. She went on to become the head of the newly established Department of Child Development in the Institute of Education in London University.

Isaacs became an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1921 and a Member in 1923. In 1928 she entered analysis with Joan Riviere. She qualified as a Child Analyst in 1935. She joined the staff of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis in 1931 and the Training Committee of the BPAS in 1944-45, playing an important role in the Society's Controversial Discussions.

She married twice, firstly to William Broadhurst Brierley and secondly to Nathan Isaacs in 1922. She died on 12 Oct 1948.

Ernest Jones was born in Gowerton in Wales on 1 Jan 1879. He began his degree in medicine at the University of Cardiff but completed it at University College London in 1900.

Jones discovered the work of Sigmund Freud in 1906 and soon began to practice psychoanalysis. He first met Freud at the first International Psychoanalytical Congress held in Salzburg in 1908. In the same year, Jones emigrated to become Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and whilst in North America, he organised the inaugural meeting of the American Psychoanalytical Association in 1911.

After a brief analysis with Ferenczi, Jones returned to London in 1913 and set about forming the London Psychoanalytical Society, only four of whose original fifteen members were psychoanalysts. The Society was dissolved after the end of the First World War.

In 1919, Jones managed to re-establish contact with the psychoanalytic community in Europe and founded the British Psychoanalytic Society, of which he remained president until 1944. He was twice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association (1920-1924 and 1932-1939) and took charge of the resettlement of analysts fleeing Nazi persecution.

In 1947, he began writing his three-volume biography of Freud, which he completed in 1957. He died on 11 Feb 1958. He married twice, first to the Welsh singer and musician Morfydd Llwynn Owen in 1917 (she died in 1918) and in 1919 to Katherine Jökl, an Austrian.