Founded by Charles Whittingham in 1811; the name was first used in 1811; located in Chiswick, near London; the press continued to operate until 1962.

Nursing educator Rae Chittick was born in Ontario and grew up in Alberta. After graduating from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1922, she worked as a nurse in British Columbia and Alberta. Chittick pursued further studies at Columbia (B.Sc. in Public Health Nursing, 1931) and Sanford (M.A. in Education, 1942). She came to McGill in 1953 as Director of the School for Graduate Nurses. She was named Flora Madeline Shaw Professor of Nursing in 1958, and retired as Emeritus Professor in 1963. After her retirement, she worked as a consultant on nursing education in the West Indies, Africa and Australia.

French composer and conductor Charles Chobillon wrote songs and music starting in the early 1900s; he first became a member of SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) in 1907. He wrote for musical revues for two decades in the 1930s and 1940s, including at the Théâtre des nouveautés. His best-known work was as conductor of the orchestra of the Concert Mayol, a popular Parisian cabaret that after World War II became notorious for its sexy nude spectacles. At Concert Mayol in the late 1930s he composed and conducted for various revues and tableaux, including for Charles Cluny and Victor Vallier. In 1934 the orchestra accompanied the “revues nus” of André Denis and Paul Lefebvre. He scandalized some when he arranged for his daughter Simone’s debut as a dancer in one of the Mayol shows. Simone later became an actress and singer, appearing in several films. Post-war, Chobillon composed a “Marseillaise” operetta.