François Paul Nicolas Anthoine was born on March 17, 1758, in Boulay, Duchy of Lorraine, France.

He was a politician active during the French Revolution. Before the Revolution, he was Lieutenant General of the bailiwick of Boulay. He was elected representative of the third estate of the bailiwick of Sarreguemines in the Estates General of 1789. Later, he was elected mayor of Metz. Like Robespierre, Marat, Billaud-Varenne and Desmoulins, he opposed Brissot and spoke out against the war on January 11, 1792. He was elected deputy for the department of Moselle in September 1792 at the National Convention. He voted for death unconditionally at the trial of Louis XVI. He was absent at the indictment of Marat and abstained from voting on the re-establishment of the Commission of Twelve.

He died on August 19, 1793, in Metz, France.

Band leader Ray Anthony, born Raymond Antonini, in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, began learning the trumpet at age 5. One of five brothers, he moved with his Italian parents to Cleveland, where he spent his childhood. He caught the attention of the Swing era band leader Glenn Miller, who took him on in 1940-1941 and he even appeared in Miller’s film Sun Valley Serenade. Ray was off to the Navy in 1942 and led a band entertaining the troops until 1946. Returning, he formed his own group, the Ray Anthony Orchestra which became popular in the 1950s with such hits as the “Bunny-Hop,”, the “Hokey-Pokey, and the theme from the “Dragnet” television show. He had joined Capitol Records in 1949 and recorded 49 albums with them. From 1953 to 1954 he was the musical director of “TV’s Top Tunes” and appeared in a total of 15 films, including “Daddy Long legs.” He acted in several films with his second wife, actress Mamie Van Doren, whom he married in 1955; she divorced him in 1959. He continued to be a band leader, as well as a prolific composer and song-writer, and in the early 1980s formed another group: Big Band ‘80s. By 2020 he had recorded his 126th album and was working in various combos in Las Vegas and elsewhere. There is a star for him on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Possibly Edward Antill (1742-1789), son of Edward Antill (1701-1770) of New Jersey, who was an American soldier who lived in Montreal and Quebec, and was involved in events surrounding the Invasion of Quebec in 1775 and 1776.

John Antill was a Quebec-based merchant and regular correspondent of James Morrison in Montreal.

Rev. James Cooper Antliff was born on February 1, 1844, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, son of Rev. William Antliff (1813-1884).

He was a Methodist clergyman. He was educated at Haslingden Wesleyan School, Edinburgh University (M.A., 1873; B.D., 1874) and Victoria University (Honoris Causa D.D., 1887). Antliff was a Professor of Hebrew and Apologetics at the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, for nine years. He also served as a Secretary of the Methodist Church of Canada.

In 1866, he married Fanny H. Holden (1845–1880), and in 1882, he remarried Jane Elizabeth Gooderham (1840–). He died on December 25, 1920, in Montreal, Quebec.