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Mathematician and theologian Archibald Duff received his B.A. from McGill in 1864 and his M.A in 1867. From 1869 to 1872 he studied at Andover Theological Seminary and thereafter in Germany. From 1875 to 1877 he lectured in mathematics at McGill and in Hebrew at McGill and the Congregational College. In 1877, he joined the staff of the Airendale Independent College in Bradford, England, where he taught until his retirement in 1929. He published two books on Old Testament theology, and obtained his LL.D. from McGill in 1881.

Frederick Temple Hamilton Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, was born on June 21, 1826, in Florence, Italy.

He was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society, diplomat, author, and Governor-General of Canada. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, but he left after only two years without obtaining a degree. In 1841, he succeeded his father as Baron Dufferin. In 1856, he set off on a journey around the North Atlantic and published a successful book about his travels, "Letters from High Latitudes". In 1860, he chose the career of a public servant and was appointed a British commissioner to Syria where his skilful diplomacy maintained British interests. After his success in Syria, Dufferin served in the Government of the United Kingdom as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Under-Secretary of State for War. In 1872, he became Governor-General of Canada. During his six-year term, Prince Edward Island was admitted to Confederation, and several well-known Canadian institutions, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Intercolonial Railway were established. Lady Dufferin was also very active during her husband's successful career. He served as ambassador to Imperial Russia from 1879 to 1881 and to the Ottoman Empire (1881-1884). In 1884, he reached the pinnacle of his diplomatic career as Viceroy of India. In 1888, he published the "Report on the Conditions of the Lower Classes of Population in Bengal". He also served as ambassador to Italy (1888-1891) and to France (1891-1896). In 1888, he became Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Ava being an ancient Burmese capital. Dufferin was also President of the Royal Geographical Society and Rector of the University of Edinburgh and the University of St. Andrews. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL. D) from the University of Glasgow in 1901.

In 1862, he married Hariot Georgina Rowan Hamilton. He died on February 12, 1902, in Clandeboye, Northern Ireland.

Harriet Georgina Rowan-Hamilton Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was born on February 5, 1843, in Dublin, Ireland.

She was known for her success in the role of "diplomatic wife" to Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. She and their children travelled with him to Canada upon his appointment as Governor-General (1872-1878), where her assistance in turning Rideau Hall into a centre of social activity included literary readings and presentation of plays. Next, she joined him as he served as ambassador to Russia (1879-1881) and to the Ottoman Empire (1881-1884) where she received the Grand Crescent of the Turkish Order of the Chefakat in 1883, followed by the Persian Order of the Sun in 1887. In both St. Petersburg and Constantinople, as at all their embassies, the couple were known for their hospitality. In 1884, she followed her husband to India where she initiated Queen Victoria's plan to improve medical care for women in British India. Lady Dufferin established the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India, known as the Countess of Dufferin Fund. It aimed to provide medical tuition to doctors, hospital assistants, nurses and midwives, medical relief through dispensaries, female wards, female doctors, and female hospitals. She received the Crown of India in 1884 and the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert in 1895. She published her memoirs, based on the letters she had written to her mother, "Our Viceregal Life in India" (1889), "My Canadian Journal" (1891), and "My Russian and Turkish Journals" (1916). She was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1917.

In 1862, she married Frederick Hamilton Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). She died on October 25, 1936, in Chelsea, London, England and is buried in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Dennis Duffy was born in 1938 in Illinois, USA.

He is a Canadian novelist, essayist, literary critic, and educator. He studied at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1962; Ph.D.; 1964) and served as a principal of Innis College, University of Toronto, until 1984, but worked there until 2000. There he established the Mary Ann Duffy Award, named after his late wife, to honour student volunteerism. In 2001, he helped found the Vic One program for first-year students at Victoria College, where he serves as a Professor Emeritus of English. His post-retirement energies in the Vic One program made him a co-winner of the Northrop Frye Award for combining teaching with research. He contributes reviews to the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and the New York Times and is a frequent CBC commentator on literature and the arts. He published "Marshall McLuhan" (1969), "Gardens, Covenants, Exiles: Loyalism in the Literature of Upper Canada/Ontario" (1981), "Sounding the Iceberg: an Essay on Canadian Historical Novels" (1986), "A Tale of Sad Reality: John Richardson's Wacousta" (1993), and "Evergreen Playland: Road Trip Through British Columbia" (2008).