Archibald Henry Sayce was born on September 25, 1845, in Shirehampton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

He was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist. Despite frequent ill health as a child, he was a voracious reader, and by the age of 18, he taught himself to read some Ancient Egyptian, Sanskrit, and Hebrew and became interested in cuneiform. In 1865, he published his first academic paper, Cuneiform inscriptions of Van. He graduated from Queen's College, Oxford (B.A., 1869) and was elected a Fellow and Classical Lecturer. In 1870, he became a college tutor and was also ordained as a priest of the Church of England. In the early 1870s, Sayce was a regular weekly contributor to The Times and the New York Independent. In 1879, he resigned from his role as a college tutor to free up time for exploration and was instrumental in founding the Alexandria Museum in Cairo. In 1891, Sayce returned to Oxford to become the University's first Professor of Assyriology, a position he held until his retirement in 1915. He was the Hibbert (1887), Gifford (1900-1902) and Rhind Lecturer (1906) and travelled to Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Far East. He helped found the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1898-1919) and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. After his retirement, Sayce continued to write and spent his time in Edinburgh, Oxford, and Egypt.

He died unmarried on February 4, 1933, in Bath, Somerset, England.

Born in St. Albans, VT, Charles Jewett Saxe (1870-1943) was educated in Montreal and worked as one of the original assistants of the architect Edward Maxwell (1867-1923). He left Maxwell's firm in 1897 to form a partnership with another Maxwell assistant, John Smith Archibald (1872-1934). Saxe and Archibald practised architecture together until 1914. From 1914 until his retirement in 1931 Saxe practised alone except from 1922 to 1927 when he practiced with John Melville Miller (1875-1948). His most noteworthy project was the Beaux-Arts design of the new Court House in Montreal, which he designed with Ernest Cormier.

Né à St. Albans (Vermont), Charles Jewett Saxe (1870-1943) a fait ses études à Montréal et a été l'un des premiers adjoints de l'architecte Edward Maxwell (1867-1923). Il a quitté le cabinet de Maxwell en 1897 pour s'associer à un autre adjoint de Maxwell, John Smith Archibald (1872-1934). Saxe et Archibald ont exercé leur profession ensemble jusqu'en 1914. Puis, de 1914 jusqu'au moment de sa retraite en 193 1, Saxe a continué d'exercer seul sauf de 1922 à 1927 où il exerça l'architecture avec John Melville Miller (1875-1948). Son projet le plus remarquable est le plan de style Beaux-Arts qu'il a conçu pour le nouveau palais de Justice de Montréal, réalisé en collaboration avec Ernest Cormier.