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William Henry Pope was born on May 29, 1825, in Bedeque, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, the brother of James Colledge Pope (1826-1885), a P. E. I. businessman and premier.

He was a lawyer, politician, journalist, judge, land agent, and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He studied law in London in the Inner Temple and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He returned home and became a land agent. From 1859 to 1872, he served as the editor of the Islander, P. E. I.’s main Conservative Party newspaper. In 1859, he was appointed colonial secretary, even though he was not a part of the legislature. In 1863, he entered politics as a representative for the constituency of Belfast. An enthusiastic supporter of the Canadian Confederation, he was one of the hosts of the Charlottetown Conference, and he attended the Quebec conference in 1864. He resigned as executive councillor and colonial secretary in 1866. In 1873, after the Island entered the Dominion of Canada, Pope was appointed Prince County Court judge. Before his death, he had begun research in England for a projected history of the Island. In London, he was elected three times (1863, 1866, and 1870) to the ranks of the Athenaeum Club as one of its 15 honorary non-British members.

In 1851, he married Helen Desbrisay (1823–1905). He died on October 7, 1879, in St. Eleanors, Prince County, Prince Edward Island.

James Colledge Pope was born on June 11, 1826, in Bedeque, Prince Edward Island.

He was an entrepreneur, land proprietor, and politician. He attended school in Saltash, near Plymouth, and upon his return, he entered the family timber business. Pope was a successful businessman who was at one point the island's third-largest shipowner. He entered P.E.I. politics in 1857 when the island was still a colony of the U.K. He served as premier three times, 1865-1867 (Conservative), 1870-1872 (coalition), and April-September 1873 (Conservative). As premier, he called upon troops to quell Tenant League disturbances in 1865, negotiated purchase of the Cunard estate in 1866, commenced construction of a railway in 1871, and led the Island into Confederation on July 1, 1873. He did not run in the 1874 federal election but returned to the province's House of Assembly in 1875. In 1876, he lost his seat in the provincial election due to the issue of school funding. In 1877, he returned to the House of Commons and served as Minister of Marine and Fisheries (1878-1882) in the Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald.

In 1852, he married Eliza Dalrymple Pope (1829–1911). He died on May 8, 1885, in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

John Henry Pope was born on December 19, 1819, in Cookshire, Compton, Quebec.

He was a farmer, lumberman, railway entrepreneur, and politician. He went to local schools, but his education was unsystematic. His writing, like his speech, always retained a highly original syntax and force. He served with the local militia during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and opposed those who supported the annexation of Eastern Townships to the United States. By the mid-1840s, he took over his father's farm and was noted for his improvement of cattle breeds through the importation of thoroughbred stock. He represented Compton County in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1857 to 1867 and was elected to the 1st Canadian Parliament in 1867, representing the riding of Compton as a member of the Liberal-Conservative Party. He was the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Railways and Canals, serving until his death in 1889.

In 1845, he married Persis Maria Bailey (1827–1906). He died on April 1, 1889, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Reginald Stuart Poole was born on February 27, 1832, in London, England.

He was an English archaeologist, numismatist, and Orientalist. His mother's family were well-known scholars of oriental literature. As a boy, he spent seven years in Egypt with his uncle Edward Lane, author of the “Arabic Lexicon” and developed an interest in Egyptian antiquities and Arabic literature and numismatics. In 1852, he was appointed an assistant in the British Museum and was assigned to the Department of Coins and Medals. In 1866, he became Assistant Keeper of Coins and Keeper in 1870. He was appointed Yates Professor of Archeology at University College, London, in 1889. Poole was the editor of the Official Catalogues of Greek, Oriental and English Coins and was the author of the Catalogue of the Coins of the Ptolemies (1883) and Coins of the Shahs of Persia (1886). He was a contributor to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, the Kitto's Encyclopedia, and the Numismatic Chronicle. He lectured on archeology and art at the Royal Academy and the Slade School, University College. He was a member of the London Numismatic Society, an honorary member of the American Numismatic and Archeological Institute, the Imperial German Archeological Institute, a Life-Governor of University College, London, a Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Fund, and Secretary of the Society of Medallists. He received an honorary LL.D. from Oxford for his services to archeology and literature.

He died on February 8, 1895, in London, England.

Henry Skeffington Poole was born on August 1, 1844, in Stellarton, Nova Scotia.

He was a mining engineer, geologist, and author. He was educated at King’s College in Windsor, Nova Scotia (B.A, 1865; M.A., 1874; D.Sc., 1903). He also studied at the Royal School of Mines in London, England. In 1872, Poole was appointed inspector of mines in Nova Scotia, a position he held until 1878. He was the General Manager of the Acadia Coal Company from 1878 to 1901. In 1901, he resigned and joined the Geological Survey of Canada as a part-time geologist. He participated in surveys of New Brunswick coal seams and the Nanaimo–Comox coalfield of Vancouver Island. He was interested in natural history (entomology, meteorology, botany, and ornithology) and contributed numerous articles to the Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science and the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. From 1902 to 1905, he was president of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science and became a part-time lecturer in the School of Mining and Metallurgy at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He retired to England.

In 1876, he married Florence Hope Gibson Gray (1848–1923). He died on March 31, 1917, in Guildford, England.