Frederick William Henshaw was born on July 22, 1822, in Montreal, Lower Canada.

He was a Montreal shipping and produce commission merchant from 1850 until his retirement. He joined the Board of Trade prior to 1869, and for many years he was a member of its council. In 1882-1883, he was president of the Board and in 1885 and 1887, he served on the Board of Arbitration. Throughout his business career, he took a prominent part in the welfare of the commerce of the city. In 1867, he was created a magistrate by Sir George Etienne Cartier and performed many public services in his magisterial capacity. In 1856, he was appointed vice-consul for the Republic of Uruguay and in 1870, he became full consul acting for the whole Dominion of Canada.

In 1850, he married Maria Louisa Scott (1831-1915). He died on June 7, 1906, in Montreal, Canada.

Samuel Henshaw was born on January 29, 1852, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

He was a natural historian and entomologist. He became a member of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1871 and served as its secretary, editor, and librarian from 1892 to 1901. Succeeding Dr. H. A. Hagen, he became an assistant in entomology and librarian of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (1891-1898). From 1903 to 1911, he was curator of the museum (his title was changed to the director), the position he held until November 1927. Henshaw was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Society of Naturalists and American Society of Zoologists. He was one of the founders of the Cambridge Entomological Club, which started publishing Psyche in 1874. Among his publications is the "List of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico" (1885).

Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert was born on June 12, 1831, in Brighton, Sussex, England.

He was the 1st Premier of Queensland, Australia. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1854; B.C.L., 1856; D.C.L., 1862). He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in April 1858. In 1859, Sir George Bowen, governor of the new colony of Queensland, chose Herbert as a private secretary, eventually becoming the Colonial Secretary of Queensland and the 1st and 3rd Premier of Queensland (10 December 1859 – 1 February 1866; 20 July 1866 – 7 August 1866). Afterward, Herbert returned to England and in 1870, he became an Assistant Under-Secretary for the Colonies. In 1871, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the position he held for 21 years with great distinction. In 1882, he was created K.C.B., and in 1892, G.C.B. In the same year, he was appointed chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He left the colonial office in 1892 and in 1893-1896, he was Agent-General for Tasmania. He did active work in connection with the formation of the British Empire League. He became Chairman of the Tariff Commission in 1903.

He died on May 6, 1905, in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, England.

Rev. Andrew Walker Herdman was born on September 5, 1822, in Rattray, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a clergyman. In 1849, he became a pastor at the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Pictou, Nova Scotia where he ministered for thirty years. In 1879, he moved back to Scotland and was inducted into his native Rattray Parish Church as his brother William's successor. He served here until his death in 1894.

In 1849, he married Elizabeth Close (1827-1897). He died on August 17, 1894, in Rattray, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Gerard Edgar Herring was born in 1835 in Cromer, Norfolk, England.

He was a civil servant. He arrived in New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 20, and in 1874, he entered the newly-established Department of Mines as chief clerk. He later served in the position of Assistant Under-Secretary for Mines until his retirement in 1894. He was prominently connected with the municipal affairs of Ryde and Gladesville for many years.

In 1862, he married Jane Wiseman (1836-1873) and in 1879, he married Caroline Estella DeLange (1852-1935). He died on February 9, 1915, in Gladesville, New South Wales, Australia.

Edward Osborne Hewett was born on September 25, 1835, in Southsea, Hampshire, England.

He was a British army officer, military engineer, and college commandant. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and served in the Crimean War in 1854-1855. After taking courses in military surveying and engineering, Hewett was employed at Dover on the construction of forts. In 1857, he was posted to the West Indies as a commanding engineer. Promoted captain in 1860, he became an assistant instructor at the Royal Military Academy. In 1861, he arrived in British North America, where he was appointed commanding engineer west of Hamilton, Ontario and was in charge of the 18th Company, with headquarters in London, Ontario. He was responsible for selecting military positions and directing surveys for purposes of defence. In 1863, Hewett was posted to Pictou, N.S., and then to Halifax to work on the design and construction of new fortifications. In 1876, he opened the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and served as its first Commandant until his resignation in 1886. He was responsible for drafting the curriculum and he chose the Royal Military College's motto, "Truth, Duty, Valour". He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in the 1883 Birthday Honours.

In 1864, he married Catherine Mary Biscoe (1842–1923). He died on June 3, 1897, in Woolwich, Kent, England.

William Henry Hicks was baptized on February 12, 1817, in Portsmouth, England.

He was an educator. He studied at the London training school of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, graduating about 1839. He then taught at Bowyer School, Clapham, London, before joining the evangelical Colonial Church and School Society, formed in 1851 to maintain Anglican parochial schools in British North America. In 1853, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, and founded a normal school at St. George’s Church. The school soon relocated to a building on Rue Bonaventure. He disapproved of the use of monitors and he advocated mixed schools. In 1856, he helped organize the Lower Canada Teachers’ Association. The success of Hicks’s school earned him an invitation to make it the nucleus of the recently established McGill Normal School. He accepted, and the new school opened its doors on March 3, 1857. The principal of McGill College, John William Dawson became principal of the normal school, and Hicks was given the chair of English literature. Hicks lectured on education throughout the province, was inspector of model schools under the Colonial Church and School Society, and contributed to the Journal of Education for Lower Canada (Montreal) from 1857 to 1879. In 1864, he was elected a vice-president of the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers. In 1870, he became the principal of McGill Normal School.

In 1843, he married Isabella Barrow (1823- ). He died on August 7, 1899, in Montreal, Quebec.

Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay was born on January 31, 1814, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish geologist and author. In 1827, after the death of his father, he had to take a clerkship in a cotton broker's office. Unhappy, he found consolation in literature and science, especially geology. In 1840, he produced a geological model of Isle of Arran, an island off the coast of Scotland, and presented it to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Glasgow. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) was impressed with his model and recruited him for a position on the British Geological Survey. Ramsay served in this position for forty years. He became a Professor of Geology at the University College in England in 1848. In 1849, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1851, he was appointed Professorship of Geology at the Royal School of Mines and in 1856, he was elected President of the Geological Section of the British Association. In 1857, he represented the British Geological Society to the American Association for Advancement of Science visiting Canada and Northeastern United States. In 1862, he became President of the Geological Society and received its Wollaston Medal. He received the Royal Medal from the Royal Society in 1879. In 1881, he was knighted by Queen Victoria. He published numerous papers on geology, e.g., “Geology of Arran" (1841), “On Glacial Origin of Certain Lakes in Switzerland” (1862), “The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain” (1863), and “The Geology of North Wales” (1881).

In 1852, he married Mary Louisa Williams (1825-1917). He died on December 9, 1891, in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales.

Hew Ramsay was born in 1811 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

He was a bookseller and publisher. He studied Scottish law and worked at the office of a writer to the Signet. In 1832, he moved to Montreal, Quebec. Together with his brother-in-law Andrew Armour, they conducted a bookselling and publishing firm Armour & Ramsay, a large business with branches in Kingston, Hamilton, and Toronto. They published the Montreal Gazette from 1836 to 1843. They were queen’s printers to the Special Council from 1838 to 1840. After their partnership dissolved in 1850, Ramsay conducted the Montreal business until he died in 1857. His son Robert Anstruther Ramsay (1846-1887) was a surgeon.

In 1842, he married Agnes Hunter Armour (1817–1889). He died on February 22, 1857, in Montreal, Quebec.

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born about 1846, the son of Hew Ramsey (1810-1856), a Montreal bookseller and publisher.

He was an advocate. He graduated from McGill University (B.C.L, 1862; B.A., 1863; M.A., 1866). His son Robert Anstruther Ramsay (1887-1975) was a surgeon.

In 1877, he married Catherine Hamilton Duff. He died on January 15, 1887, in Montreal, Quebec.