Here (begun 24.2.16 in NZ) is a list of family (and other) members identified by intials and with additional data sufficient (I trust) for you to be able to work out just who they really are:
AC&Co: Archer Cowley & Co: this is the family removals and transport business founded by James Archer in 1857, with (wholly-owned by the family) offices and warehouses in Pembroke Street, and Park End Street, and sold, in default of a member of the family to continue the business, to Cantays in 1969;
AGA: Alfred George Archer (approx 1848 - 1913), son of John Archer, brewer, Inland Revenue Officer and Methodist Local Preacher, lived in Oxford; Wells, Somerset; Rothwell, Northants; Shilllingford, Oxon; and Oxford again;
AWA: Arthur William Archer (1902 - c.1976), first son of WGRA (see below), first employed at Morris Motors in test department, and went on to become works-rally-driver in Monté Carlo Rally, driving supercharged soft-top sports car, then joined his father in the family firm, AC&Co (see above), after his brother Fred, and remained so-employed (including as Transport Director) to the end of his career;
CCCCS: Christ Church Cathedral Choir School, Oxford, a ‘prep school’ located in Brewer Street, (off St Aldates) Oxford, and at which PBA and MJA and REA were all pupils in the 1940s and 1950s; it now apparently doesn’t call itself a ‘choir’ school, so perhaps now it is “CCCS”, though I have no reason to think that the relationship with the choir formed by its pupils and which sings in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, is any different from my days at the school;
DGG: David Geldard, sometime senior-partner of UD&L, Chartered Patent Agents, based for many years at the Tower House office in Leeds, and co-founder with FEPL and MFW and FJW of Puddles, meeting at The White Horse, Sutton, near Pulborough, Sussex, in 1996, and ongoing member of the Beckenham branch of that group, in 2016;
FEPL: Francis Ernest (Peter) Lord, 1912 - 2001, sometime senior-partner of UD&L, and, with Bill Dykes (WUD), co-founder with him of that firm; and co-founder with DGG and MFW and FJW of Puddles, meeting at The White Horse, Sutton, near Pulborough, Sussex, in 1996;
FGBA: Frederick George Blake Archer (1905-1991), second son of WGRA (see below), first employment with George Blake in his Oxford house-furnishing store from approx 1920-1925, then 1925-1969 with his father (except the latter year or two) at Archer Cowley & Co, AC&Co (see above), as (1940s onwards) Managing Director;
FJW: Fred Walters, sometime senior-partner of UD&L, Chartered Patent Agents, and co-founder with FEPL and MFW and DGG of Puddles, meeting at The White Horse, Sutton, near Pulborough, Sussex, in 1996, and ongoing member of the Beckenham branch of that group, in 2016;
GGMH: George Gatton Melhuish Hardingham, founder of the Hardingham patent practice in London, son of G.G.Hardingham, barrister, and whose (the son’s) patent practice was purchased in the early 1920s by WUD (see below), founder of UD&L (see below) after his initial training and qualification as a Chartered Patent Agent, at the Mewburn Ellis firm in London;
GMA: Gwendolen Mary Archer (1909-2009), Phil’s mother, daughter of Frank and Rosa Penfold, pianist, free-thinker, vegetarian (in her latter-days), and atheist (though she didn’t really describe herself as such), and supporter of left-of-centre causes such as arms-limitation, action on climate-change, reduction of wealth-inequality, and gender-discrimination - though I’m uncertain about her attitude to gay-rights, and she shared her generation’s tendency to certain aspects of racism. She was a voracious-reader, in particular of biographies.
MCS: Magdalen College School, Oxford, located at The Plain, (at the east end of Magdalen Bridge), Oxford, and at which at which PBA and MJA and REA were all pupils in the 1950s and 1960s, it then, being a Direct Grant School, as opposed to its present (2016) status as a £13,000 (approx) per annum fees (for day-boys) out-and-out public school, that it presently appears to be, and, of course, very probably was in former centuries;
MFW: Mike Wisher, sometime senior-partner of UD&L, Chartered Patent Agents, and co-founder with FEPL and FJW and DGG of Puddles, meeting at The White Horse, Sutton, near Pulborough, Sussex, in 1996, and ongoing senior member of the Beckenham branch of that group, in 2016;
MJA: Michael James Archer, (1938-?), my elder brother, firstborn of Frederick George Blake Archer (FGBA) and Gwendolen Mary Penfold (GMA), educated at CCCCS and MCS (see above)
PBA: Myself, Philip Bruce Archer, (1941 - ?), second son of Frederick George Blake Archer (FGBA), and Gwendolen Mary Penfold.Archer, born October 1941, instigator of this website, and brother of Michael (MJA) and Edward (REA) Archer;
SHG: Stewart Gibson, sometime senior-partner of UD&L, Chartered Patent Agents, based for many years in that firm’s Cardiff office, having joined us from A.A. Thornton of Northampton, being ‘interviewed’ he recollects, by MRH and PBA before joining the firm, in a very informal way, the details of which escape me for the moment (24.3.16); and long-term supporter and member of Puddles (Sutton/ London/Lyddington), along with Sue Gibson, co-founder with my wife Ruth, of the WAGS branch of that esteemed institution (which saw the light of day as its ‘Uppingham Book Club’ branch);
UD&L also known as ‘UDL’: Urquhart-Dykes & Lord, the firm of Chartered Patent Agents formed by Bill Dykes (WUD), see below, and Peter Lord (FEPL), see above;
WFH: William Fairburn Hart, founder of the Leeds-based patent practice purchased by Bill Dykes in the 1930s to expand his own London-based practice, and which became UDL’s Leeds Office in due course, and a very important fee-earning centre of the business in later years, though in its early days it was very much the ‘cinderella’ of the business;
WGRA: William George Reed Archer, (1878 - 1969), PBA’s paternal grandfather, son of Alfred George Archer (AGA) and Olive Emma Reed, inheritor from James Archer of the latter’s share of the Archer Cowley & Co business, and the residue of his estate, in 1925, and thereby became a relatively rich man, and lived at Somerville, 130 Banbury Road, Oxford from approximately the mid 1920s to 1954;
WUD: Willliam Urquhart Dykes (1898 - 1979) founder of UD&L, the firm of Chartered Patent Agents with whom PBA was employed in 1980, and which transformed his life financially and in other important ways;