Carl Winkler was born at Virden, Manitoba and educated at the University of Manitoba (M.Sc. 1931), McGill (Ph.D. 1933) and Oxford (Ph.D. 1936). After working as a biophysicist for the National Research Council of Canada, he was appointed Assistant Professor of chemistry at McGill in 1939. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1944 and full Professor in 1946. Winkler served as Chairman of the Chemistry Department from 1955 to 1961, Chairman of the Physical Sciences Group from 1956 to 1963 and Vice-Principal (Planning and Development) from 1966 to 1969.

Dr. Sybil Douglas Wingate was born on January 7, 1902, in Naini Tal, India, sister of Orde Charles Wingate (1903-1944), a British Army Major-General.

She graduated from the University of London (B.A., Ph.D.). In 1931, inspired by Dr. Charles Singer, she wrote her Doctor of Philosophy thesis, "The Medieval Latin Versions of the Aristotelian Scientific Corpus, with Special Reference to the Biological Works," a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the medieval versions of Aristotle. In 1947, she was a UK delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Conference on Trade and Employment. She also served as an Honorary Secretary of the Danubian Club in London in the 1940s.

She died on March 20, 1993, in London, England.

Orde Charles Wingate was born on February 26, 1903, in Uttarakhand, India.

He was a Major-General in the British Army. He was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the Royal Artillery's officers' training school. He was treated roughly by his classmates as a result of his strong-mindedness, which impelled him to always follow his own path. After studying Arabic, he got an appointment with the Sudan Defence Force (1928-1933), followed by a three-year post in Bulford on Salisbury Plain, England. In 1936, he successfully applied for an intelligence post in Palestine, where he became a supporter of Zionism and set up a joint British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit, the Special Night Squads. He left Palestine in 1938 with a Distinguished Service Order. Wingate began the Second World War as a light anti-aircraft brigade major. His previous experience on the Abyssinian border and recent exploits in Palestine made him a natural choice for a position in Khartoum in 1940, where he gathered and trained a force that would accompany the emperor Haile Selassie back into Abyssinia to fight the Italian troops. Exhausted, depressed by his removal from command, ill with malaria, and overusing an early anti-malarial drug, Wingate attempted suicide in his hotel room. After his recovery in Britain, he left for Rangoon, Burma, in 1942 and organized guerrilla units, the Chindits, a mix of British, Indian and Burmese, to fight behind Japanese lines. They were so successful that the Japanese Army called off their 1944 offensive into India.

In 1935, he married Lorna Elizabeth Moncrieff Paterson (1917–1990). He died on March 24, 1944, in a plane crash in Manipur, India, on his way to a conference. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, was born on June 23, 1894, at White Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, England, the first son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King George V and Queen Mary.

Edward was King of the United Kingdom, from January 20, 1936, until December 11, 1936. As the future king, he was given the forenames Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David. Within the family, he was always known as David. Initially educated at home, he was sent to the naval college at Osborne in 1907 and, in 1909, he went to the Royal Naval College on HMS Britannia at Dartmouth. He began his naval career, serving as a midshipman in the Hindustan. Edward was officially invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarvon Castle on July 13, 1911. In 1912, he graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, he was keen to participate. He gained a pilot's licence and undertook a military flight in 1918. In the 1920s, Edward represented his father, King George V, at home and abroad. He disliked his royal duties, but his charisma made him popular with the British people. George V was disappointed by his son’s failure to settle down in life and was furious with his many affairs with married women. When King George V died on January 20, 1936, Edward became King Edward VIII. He was involved with a twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) since 1934. Not serious about his work as a king, he spent August and September sailing around the Mediterranean on a luxury steam yacht with Wallis. In November 1936, he expressed his plans to marry Wallis Simpson to the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who informed him it was morally unacceptable because remarriage after divorce was opposed by the Church of England, of which Edward was the formal head. As a result, Edward chose to abdicate on December 11, 1936 and married Wallis in June 1937. His brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York, became King George VI. After his abdication, Edward was given the title Duke of Windsor. The Duke and Duchess visited Nazi Germany against the advice of the British government, and they met Adolf Hitler at his private retreat. After the war, they became celebrities, hosted parties and lived between Paris and New York.

He died on May 28, 1972, in Paris, France.

Newton Horace Winchell was the State Geologist for Minnesota.

Alexander Winchell was born on December 31, 1824, in North East, Dutchess County, New York.

He was a geologist, educator, and author. He graduated from the Wesleyan University, Connecticut, in 1847. He taught at various schools in New Jersey, New York, and Alabama. He served as president of the Masonic University at Selma, Alabama, in 1853. In 1854, Winchell was appointed Professor of Physics and Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan, eventually becoming Professor of Geology and Paleontology. In 1859, he was appointed as State Geologist of Michigan. In 1863, he got a lease on a cotton plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and organized the Ann Arbor Cotton Company. In 1864, he returned to Michigan and in 1865, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1872, he was appointed chancellor of Syracuse University, New York, but resigned in 1874. In 1875, he served as a Professor of Geology and Zoology at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. There, his controversial views on evolution diverged from Biblical teaching (“inferiority of Negro”) and expressed in his book “Adamites and Preadamites: Or, A Popular Discussion” (1878), were not acceptable to the University administration. Winchell was obligated to resign in 1878. He then returned to the University of Michigan, where he was a Professor of Geology and Paleontology. In 1888, he founded the American Geological Society and The American Geologist.

In 1849, he married Julia Frances Lines (1825–1920). He died on February 19, 1891, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan.