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Georgina Emma Alexander Bell, second daughter of Frances Georgina Armstrong (1841-1911) and John Alexander Bell (1866-1944), was born 28 September 1866 in Queensland Australia. She was the granddaughter of Sir Andrew Armstrong, 1st Baronet of Gallen (1754-1827). On 7 Nov 1895 she married Robert Leslie Badham (1859-1989), nephew of Dame Nellie Melba, in Booterstown, Dublin, Ireland. On 22 September 1896, their first child, Emily Frances G. Leslie Badham, was born in Blackrock, County Dublin. On 10 January 1899, their second and final child, Robert Alexander Armstrong Badham, was born. Georgina "Nina" Badham died in Manchester, England in 1944.

Georgina Badham was somehow related to the Lamb Family. There are connections between the Fuller family and both the Bell and Armstrong families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On the back of a her framed photograph, she is referred to as Cousin Nina, however it is unclear who wrote this inscription. At present he direct link between Georgina Bell and the Lamb Family of Woodfield house is unclear.

Fritz Erwin Loewenstein, Doctor of Philosophy and founder of the London Shaw Society, was a German refugee who did paperwork for George Bernard Shaw. In the late 1940s, Doctor Loewenstein was working as the sole biographer of George Bernard Shaw. Loewenstein later published 'Bernard Shaw Through the Camera' in 1948. Upon Shaw's death in 1950, his will left financial accomodation for Doctor Loewenstein to be able to finish his bibliographical work. Because of this support, Doctor Loewenstein was able to publish, 'The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays: A Bibliographical Study' that year.

Ellen Adine Hyland, daughter of John Hyland and Sophia Kelly, was born in 1816 in Dublin. She was baptised at Saint Michael and John's church, Dublin City, Ireland. She married David Charles Bell on 19 October 1840 in Perth, Scotland. They had eleven children: Alexander Bell (1841-1843); Robert Bell (1842-1849); Esther Alicia Bell (1844-1850); Laura Jane Bell (1853-1949); Lewis Knox Bell (1857-1909); Charles James Bell (1858-1929); Sophie Bell; William Bell; Aileen Bell; Elizabeth Bell; and Chichester Bell. In [date] she moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada with her husband and four of their children. In 1880 she immigrated to the United States with her husband. David Charles Bell died on 28 October 1902. After her husband's death, Ellen Adine Bell lived in Georgetown, Virgina for a short while before moving to Stoneleigh Court, where she died in 1907. Ellen Adine Bell is buried with her husband at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, District of Columbia.

Austen Henry Layard was a Member of Parliament for Soutwark in the House of Commons in 1860.

Eleanor Grace Watney Roe, only daughter of Thomas Henry Roe (1858-1927) and Eleanor Jane Watney (1863-1897), was born 1 August 1885 in Norwood, Surrey, England. She was as suffragette. In 1915 served as chief organiser of the 'Women's Right to Serve' procession in London. She was arrested, and a photograph of her was printed in the 'Daily Mirror'. After World War I she studied theosophy. On 10 August 1921 she arrived in Detroit, Michigan, with her close friend Christabel Pankhurst. Both women settled in California. During the 1930s, Grace was became involved in social work. After the Second World War Grace Roe ran a book shop and metaphysical library in Santa Barbara, California. She acted as literary executor for Christabel after her friend's death in 1958. In 1961 she was vice-president of the Suffragette Fellowship of London. Grace Roe died in Tonbridge, Kent, England in 1979.

Anna Marguerite Smith, third daughter of John Cairns Ebenezer Smith (b. 1858) and Jane Davison (1861-1934), was born in County Waterford, Ireland, in March of 1897. She died in 1983 in the United States of America.

Elizabeth Young Tobias, fifth child of Reverend James Tobias (1803-1882) and Mary Anne Rowe (1813-1881), was born 24 April 1843 in Donaghadee, County Down. Elizabeth Young Tobias died 12 May 1928