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Lady Evelyn Rawson married Major-General Sir Francis Walter De Winton, secretary to the Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada.

Sir Francis Walter de Winton was born on June 21, 1835, in Pitsford, Northamptonshire, England.

He was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1854. He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol. For his service, he received the Légion d'Honneur (5th class). He was promoted to captain in 1861 and served in British North America and Gibraltar before working as a military attaché in Constantinople (1877-1878). From 1878 to 1883, he was secretary to the Marquess of Lorne, the Governor-General of Canada. De Winton was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1880 and brevet-colonel in 1884. He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1882 and a Knight in 1884. He held administrative appointments in several African colonies, e.g., Congo Free State and Swaziland (1889). He was made a Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government and a Companion of the Order of the Bath. In 1890, de Winton retired from the army with the honorary rank of major-general. He was appointed governor of the Imperial British East Africa Company's possessions but resigned in 1891. In 1892, he became Controller and Treasurer in the household of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, and Avondale and later he served in the household of the Duke and Duchess of York. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross in 1893.

In 1864, he married Lady Evelyn Rawson (1846–1907). He died on December 16, 1901, in Llanstephan, Llyswen, Wales.

Dr. James Ratchford DeWolf was born on November 19, 1818, in Horton, Nova Scotia.

He was a physician and asylum superintendent. In 1841, he graduated with an M.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and was awarded a licentiate in medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was the first colonial member of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association of London. The same year he moved back to Nova Scotia to practise medicine in Kentville and later in Halifax. In 1849, he served as president of the Nova Scotia Philanthropic Society. In 1857, DeWolf was appointed superintendent of the new Provincial Hospital for the Insane where his medical expertise and Christian sensibilities predicted a successful career in the care of the insane. He advocated moral therapy rather than physical control, noting that the “absence of personal restraint” was an especially “pleasing feature of the modern and humane system of treatment”. Christian contemplation, daily exercise outdoors, musical entertainment, and “voluntary” labour was his therapeutic regimen. Because of these treatment methods and other issues, he had some difficulties working with subordinates and other colleagues. In 1866, he served as president of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia which he helped found in 1854. He was also a professor of medical jurisprudence at Dalhousie College from 1871 to 1875. In 1877, DeWolf retired after his dismissal due to accusations of mismanagement and corruption in the hospital. No longer practising medicine, he turned to local and family history, collaborating with Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton in the compilation of a DeWolf family genealogy.

In 1846, he married Eleanor Reade Sandifer (1831-). He died on March 5, 1901, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Josiah Deacon was the manager of the Nova Scotia Salt Works and Exploration Company in the 1860s.

Rev. Andrew Sidney Dealey was born in Prince Edward Island in 1834. In 1879, he became the first rector of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Buffalo, New York.