Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, was born on January 7, 1854, in London, England, son of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), a UK Prime Minister (1868-1894).

He was a British Liberal politician. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, and lectured in history at Keble College, Oxford (1877–1880). In 1880, he entered politics as a private secretary to his father and the same year, Gladstone was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Leeds, a post he held until 1910. He served as Lord of Treasury (1881), Financial Secretary to the War Office (1886), Under-Secretary of the Home Office (1892–1894), First Commissioner of Works (1894–1895), Chief Whip to the Liberal Party (1899–1906), and Home Secretary (1905–1910). In 1910, he was appointed 1st Governor-General of South Africa and also the High Commissioner. Gladstone was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and raised to the peerage as Viscount Gladstone, of the County of Lanark, in 1910. Upon his return from South Africa in 1914, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and spent much of the First World War being involved with various charities, e.g., the War Refugees Committee and the South African Hospital Fund. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1917.

In 1901, he married Lady Dorothy Mary Paget (1876–1953). He died on March 6, 1930, in Ware, Hertfordshire, England.

John Hall Gladstone was born on March 7, 1827, in London, England.

He was a British chemist and philanthropist. He was educated privately before studying chemistry at University College London and at the University of Giessen, Germany. On his return to London in 1850, he was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry in St. Thomas's Hospital, and in 1853, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served on the Royal Commission on Lighthouses, Buoys, and Beacons (1859-1862) and on the Gun Cotton Committee (1864–1868). During 1874–1877, Gladstone held the Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry at the Royal Institution and was first President of the Physical Society, of which he was one of the founders. He was also President of the Chemical Society from 1877 to 1879. He helped lay the foundation of modern physical chemistry.

In 1852, he married Jane May Tilt (1830–1864) and in 1869, he married Margaret Thompson King (1844–1870). He died on October 6, 1902, in London, England.

Beamsley Glasier was a British army officer born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the child of Stephen Glasier and Sarah Eveleth. He married Ann Stevens on 17 April 1739 in Newbury Massachusetts. They had two children together, a son and a daughter. He joined the military sometime before 1745. He began as an ensign in the 5th Massachusetts Regiment, moving up to the rank of captain in August 1745, adjutant general in Lake George, New York (then called Fort William Henry), lieutenant-colonel in the New York Regiment, and then colonel in 1756. He was commander of Fort Herkimer (in Herkimer, N.Y.) in 1757. Glasier was an active member of the Saint John River Society (also called the Canada Company), who surveyed and planned for the settlement of Nova Scotia. He also participated in the founding of a Massachusetts outpost on the Saint John River that later grew into the colony of New Brunswick. Glasier was commandant of Michilimackinac (Mackinac City, Michican) from 26 July 1768 to 24 May 1770. In 1772 he was in Albany County, New York. He was promoted to major in 1775. He also served in the West Indies and the southern American colonies, especially Florida and Georgia. He retired to the estate that he had acquired in Nova Scotia. He died in August 1784.

George F. Glassco of Hamilton, Ontario, was the father of McGill graduate Gordon Bond Glassco (B.Sc. 1905), who served with the 2nd Universities Company of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry; and eventually in air-craft production and anti-submarine work.