Freda Bage, university teacher, was born on 11 Apr 1883 at St Kilda, Victoria and educated in England and in Melbourne. She graduated B.Sc from the University of Melbourne in 1905 and M.Sc with second-class honours in 1907. She taught at the University of Melbourne and did research work until being appointed lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland in 1913. She become first principal of The Women's College at the University of Queensland on 8 Feb 1914. After a long and distinguished academic career, Freda Bage retired in 1946. She died in Brisbane on 23 Oct 1970. Her brother, Edward (born 17 Apr 1888), served with distinction on the Mawson Antarctic expedition, joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1914, and was killed at Gallipoli in May 1915.

Irish-born Elizabeth Nesta Marks was an eminent Queensland entomologist whose breakthrough work with mosquitoes and malaria in the 1940s and 1950s was of international importance. Marks, who was generally known as Pat, migrated to Brisbane with her family from Ireland in 1920 and completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland in 1938. She was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant to the newly formed Mosquito Control Committee (MCC) at the University of Queensland in 1943. During the War, she uncovered the breeding behaviour of many mosquitoes, including Aedes culicformis, using specimens from Cape York. From 1949 to 1951, Dr Marks studied at the University of Cambridge, attaining her PhD in 1951. She produced more than 100 papers describing 38 previously unknown species of mosquito as well as new species of other insects including fruit flies, bugs, cockroaches and ticks. Her major publications include the Atlas of Common Queensland Mosquitoes (1966) and the 12 volume set The Culicidae of Australasia (1980-1989). After the MCC closed in 1973, Marks moved to the Queensland Institute of Medical Research where she was appointed as Principal Entomologist. She retired in 1983 but continued her research at the Institute after her retirement. She was actively involved in local Queensland history which lead her to become a notable figure at Brisbane History Group seminars and functions and an active member of the Samford District Historical Museum Society. She was also a descendant of the Stodart family.