Thomas Mellard Reade was born on May 27, 1832, in Liverpool, England.

He was an English geologist, architect, and civil engineer. After early training with a firm of architects, he entered the Engineer's Office of the London and North-Western Railway and eventually became chief draughtsman of the northern division. In 1860, he began his private practice. He acted as architect of the Liverpool School Board from 1870 to 1902. In 1871, he was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and in 1878, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. It was not until he was about 35 years of age that he began to devote attention to his interest in geology. In 1870, he commenced the long series of geological articles which he published in various scientific societies and journals. In 1872, he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. He was elected President of the Liverpool Geological Society (1875-1877, 1884-1886, and 1895-1897). In 1896, he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

In 1866, he married Emma Eliza Fox (1833–1895). He died on May 26, 1909, in Blundellsands, Liverpool, England.

John Reade was born on November 13, 1837, in Ballyshannon, Ireland.

He was a journalist, essayist, and poet. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1856, settling in Montreal, Quebec. In 1857, he founded Montreal Literary Magazine and became its editor. In 1859, he became a rector of Lachute Academy and began studying theology. He was ordained an Anglican minister in 1865 and served in two parishes (Mascouche and Mansonville) before leaving the ministry in 1867 due to ill health. Returning to Montreal in 1868, Reade began writing for the Montreal Gazette. In 1870, he became the Gazette's literary editor, a position he held until his death in 1919. He conducted a column entitled "Old and New", under the initials "R. V." In 1870, he published a volume of verse, “The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems”. He contributed numerous papers on a variety of subjects to virtually all the major Canadian literary periodicals. Reade was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1882. He was a member and served as president of both the Society of Canadian Literature and the Society for Historical Studies. He was also a member of the Société littéraire et historique de Québec. In 1896, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain. In 1906, he received an honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Ottawa.

He died unmarried, on March 26, 1919, in Montreal, Quebec.

Alfred Arthur Reade was born on January 21, 1851, in Snelson, Cheshire, England.

He was a British publisher, journalist, and writer. He was trained as a journalist in Manchester and worked in several capacities, including that of a special correspondent in Paris in the late 1880s. He described it in his book "My Trip to Paris: How to Get There, and How to Live There" (1878). He edited the short-lived periodicals Assure and The Counting House. He was also a teacher of English composition at the Young Men's Christian Association in Manchester. He wrote various articles published in both British and American journals and was the author of numerous books, e.g., "Literary Success: Being a Guide to Practical Journalism" (1880) and "How to Write English: A Practical Treatise on English Composition" (1882).

In 1871, he married Ann Margaret Brightmore (1853–1922). He died on March 13, 1917, in Bucklow, Cheshire, England.

Kenneth Guscotte Rea was born on June 24, 1878, in Montreal, Quebec.

He studied architecture at McGill University, and in 1894, he apprenticed with Alexander Francis Dunlop. In 1900, he went to Boston and worked for the firm of Shepley, Ruttan and Coolidge, and in 1902, in New York City, for the firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson. He designed churches and the military academy at West Point. In 1905, Rea returned to Montreal and became a partner in the Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company. He then went on to practice architecture on his own and designed several commercial buildings as well as numerous residences in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.

In 1916, he married Claire Hamilton Raiguel. He died on September 6, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec.