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A.P. (Arthur Parry) Eardley-Wilmot was a British naval officer born on 24 April at Berkswell Hall in Warwickshire, England. He was the fourth son of Elizabeth Emma Parry and Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Baronet, MP for Warwickshire and Governor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). He joined the Royal Naval College on 7 August 1828, and was first deployed in 1830. His early assignments included postings in south-east Asia, southern China, and the Sandwich Islands. He was promoted to the rank of Mate in 1834, Lieutenant in 1840, and Acting -Captain in 1847. Notably, Eardley-Wilmot held the post of Commodore Commanding West Coast of Africa between 1862 and 1865. This was a command created to disrupt the trans-Atlantic slave trade following the 1807 Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. He married Charlotte Louisa Mackenzie Wright on 28 July 1868. They had a daughter together named Flora. Eardley-Wilmot died on 2 April 1886, with the title of Vice-Admiral.

John Earls was born in 1838, in Ireland.

He was one of the best-known railway officials in Canada. In 1862, he joined the Grand Trunk Railway as a clerk in the office of the Western General Freight Agent, Toronto. In 1866, he became the corresponding freight clerk at Portland, Maine. In 1871, he returned to Toronto as chief clerk to General Freight Agent. In 1877, he was promoted to Assistant General Freight Agent of the Western Division in Toronto and in 1884, he was made District General Freight Agent for the Great Western Railway and the Grand Trunk section west of Toronto. He was one of the founders of the General Freight Agents Association of Canada and served as its president in 1893. He was instrumental in creating a joint and uniform classification of the merchandise and was the chairman of the Canadian Joint Freight Classification Committee.

In 1870, he married Sarah Ann Montgomery (1848-1875). In 1876, he remarried Lucy Jane Murphy (1852–1878) and in 1881, Sara Jane Cheffey (1857-1932). He died on June 3, 1917, in Toronto, Ontario.