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Betty Heimarin studied Sanskrit and cultural epistemology in Kiel, Heidelberg, Gottingen and Bonn. In 1919, Heimann received her PhD from Kiel University where her thesis was on Upaniad Bhaya. She emigrated to England in 1933 and taught at the University of London. From 1945 to 1949 Heimann was a professor at the University of Ceylon in Colombo, Ceylon, founding the Department of Sanskrit at the university.

Her book, Indian and Western Philosophy: A Study in Contrasts (1937) is based on the Forlong Fund Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society. The Society also published her work on the Sanskrit langauge entitled The Significance of Prefixes in Sanskrit Philosophical Terminology in 1951.

Anthony Ashley Bevan, FBA was a British orientalist and distinguished Arabist.

Henry Beveridge was born on 9th February 1837. He completed his education at Glasgow University and Queen's College, Belfast, before applying for the Indian Civil Service and he was posted to Bengal in 1857, serving in various posts until 1893. He married Annette Susanna Ackroyd, a graduate of Bedford College and translator of Persian and Turki text. Beveridge, himself, had many publications including The District of Bakarganj, The Trials of maharaja Nanda Kumar: A Narrative of a Judicial Murder and he was the editor for Alexander Rogers' TheThe Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr. They had two children, Annette Jeanie (d. 1956), and a son, William Beveridge (1879–1963), a noted economist who gave his name to the report associated with the foundation of the welfare state. Beveridge retired with his wife to England in 1893 but continued to be interested in Moghul history including returning to India in 1899 to search for historical manuscripts. He died on 8th November 1929.