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Thomas Wiltshire was born on April 21, 1826, in London, England.

He was a British clergyman, geologist, and paleontologist. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1850; M.A., 1853), was ordained a deacon in 1850 and priest in 1853. During his studies, he developed a life-long interest in geology. In 1856, Wiltshire was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. He served as President of the Geological Association three times (1859, 1862, 1871-1873). In 1863, he was elected Secretary of the Paleontographical Society, an office he held until 1899. From 1874 to 1878, he was one of the Honorary Secretaries of the Geological Society. He acted as Lecturer in Geology (1872-1881) and Assistant Professor (1881-1889) at King's College. In 1890, he was appointed Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at King’s College, a position he held until 1896. In 1888, he became Master of the Clothworkers Company in London. The University of Cambridge conferred upon him an honorary degree of D.Sc. in 1899. He spent several of his summer vacations visiting Yellowstone Park, USA, and the Rocky Mountains in Canada. He donated his collection of minerals to the Mineralogical Museum in Cambridge. Besides being much occupied in scientific pursuits and geological investigations, Rev. Dr. Wiltshire was devoted to clerical work, lecturing, and writing.

In 1850, he married Sarah Harriet Hudson (1826–1905). He died on October 26, 1902, in London, England.

William Dexter Wilson was born on February 28, 1816, in Stoddard, New Hampshire.

He was a clergyman, educator, and philosopher. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School (D.D., 1838) and was ordained as a Unitarian minister. He served in various churches for four years but became increasingly convinced of Trinitarian Christological principles, and as a result, he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1842. While serving as a priest in Sherburne, New York (1842-1850), he investigated many philosophical and theological categories pertinent to different cultural and chronological settings. He was able to consult sources in French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Syrian. In 1850, Wilson was appointed Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (renamed Hobart College in 1852). In 1868, he became Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Registrar at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. In 1886, he retired as Emeritus Professor and became Dean of St. Andrew’s Divinity School in Syracuse, New York. He was known as a public lecturer and author of books on methods of mathematics instruction, on a study of practical and theoretical logic, theories of knowledge, the influence of language on thought, and the psychology of thought and action.

In 1846, he married Susan Whipple Trowbridge (1821–1890). He died on July 30, 1900, in Syracuse, New York.