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Ashley Herbert Arbuthnot was born in Paddington, London on August 21st 1884 to Herbert Robinson, a foreign banker and East India Merchant and Evelyn Mary Arbuthnot of Ockley in Surrey.

He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. At Eton he was in the Sixth Form and rowed in the Eton eight of 1903. At Oxford he took honours in history, rowed in his college boat, which was head of the river, and only just missed his rowing Blue for the Varsity. From Oxford he went into business in the City, and in 1911 was admitted to partnership in the firm of Arbuthnot, Latham it Co.

In 1907 he threw in his lot with the Poly as guide, counsellor and friend of the Rowing Section, and most helpful was his coaching and example. When Major Hoare organised a Poly Company for the "Rangers, " it was to Captain Arbuthnot (then Second Lieutenant) and Captain Studd he turned for help as fellow officers. In 1909 the company was started, and the trio united in a labour which was to count for so much in the crisis of their nation's fate. He was promoted to Captain in August 1914.

Captain Arbuthnot, in addition to an active membership of St. Matthew's Church, Bayswater, and the Y.M.C.A. work at Tichborne Street, had his own class of young men. These met at his own house every Sunday afternoon. They were welcomed there on week evenings as well. Their welfare, temporal and spiritual, was ever present with him, and when the nation's call for men came, of the thirty-nine boys whose names were on the books, thirty responded; fifteen of these joined the " Rangers," and eight were in the Poly company with him on foreign service. On December 23rd, 1914, he accompanied the Rangers to France, and his doings in the regiment are known by the extracts from letters which have appeared in the Magazine from time to time—the extract in the May number on page 105, headed " Attack under Heavy Fire, " was from his pen. He loved his men, mourned their loss, and wrote messages of sympathy and help to the mourners at home, which will ever be prized.

On May 4th, Captain Arbuthnot was seriously wounded by a shell in the head and arm near Ypres, Belgium. Lieutenant George Rickett, on coming up to take command, found him in great pain. George, without hesitation, gave him his own morphia and called for volunteers to carry the Captain to the Ambulance Hospital, two miles distant. Four men, one of whom was one of Captain Arbuthnot's own 'boys' instantly came forward and bore him at great personal risk to safety and skilled attention. He was sent on to the third general hospital at
Le Treport, Dieppe; but in spite of the utmost that skill, care and attention could do, Captain Arbuthnot answered the call "Home" on the evening of May 15th.

He was buried with military honours on May 17th in the little cemetery for British and Canadian officers and men at Le Treport.

[Taken from the Polytechnic Magazine, June 1915]

Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge where he took hons in history. Studied for a year at Ridley Hall where he was a double prizeman. Joined the 12th London as a subaltern in the Poly Company. Ordained on Trinity Sunday 1914 in St Paul's Cathedral by the Bishop of London and commenced his work as curate of St James's Holloway.

Involved at the Poly since leaving Cambridge in 1913, notably in connection with the Christmas Dinner Fund and the Scottish Tours in Edinburgh. Entered as a student at the Poly Business Training School, studying accounts and then entered the accountants department at the Poly where he helped with the books. Became a regular member of the 2nd Poly hockey team.

Gazetted Captain on September 2nd 1914. For several weeks was in charge of the guard at Waterloo Station before his company was transferred to France.
Struck on the head by shrapnel whilst in the trenches with the 12th London Regt. near St Eloi on 14 February 1915. Studd is buried next to Major Vincent Hoare in the Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Belgium.

Joined the Quintin School in 1903 and then the Art School in 1906, first as a student, then as a pupil teacher and then Assistant Master. In 1913 he gained a Scholarship to the Royal College of Art.

From 1914 he served with the Poly A Company of the Rangers, rising from Rifleman to Q.M. Sergeant, before being commissioned into the 7th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. In March 1918 he was wounded and taken prisoner. His drawings from the POW camp are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.

In 1915 he married Sybil Mayer, a fellow Poly Art School student.

After the war he re-joined the Art School as Assistant Master, at the invitation of the School Head, Mr Percival Gaskell, and taught continuously until his retirement in 1956. On his retirement he announced that he was returning to the Art school as a part-time student to study Lithography and Wood Carving!

Outside of his teaching work, Tresilian had a very successful career as a children’s book illustrator, including Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book and numerous Enid Blyton books.

Third and youngest son of Rev. Walter Hoare, of Colkirk Rectory, Fakenham. Married Quintin Hogg's eldest daughter Elsie in 1901. They had 5 children.

Educated at Eton where he was in the XI and the "Field" and the winner of the School "Fives". Held a position with Messrs Hoare, bankers in Fleet Street. Served in the South African War as a trooper in the Suffolk Yeomanry, afterwards gaining a commission. Returned to England in 1901 with the Queen's Medal and four clasps.

Director of the North British and Mercantile Insurance and of the North London Railway.

Accepted a commission in the Rangers (12th London Regt.)

Governor of the Poly since 1898. Took a keen interest in the Polytechnic, especially the athletic section. He frequently assisted at race meetings and Club deliberations, serving as a member of the PCC Finance Committee. "He had a cheerful smile and word of encouragement for everybody." President of the Christian Endeavour Society.

Killed instantly whilst conducting some men through a communications trench. Three other Poly fellows killed in same shell attack: Sidney Walter Rush, Carl G. Carpenter, and C G Rawlings.