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Robert Nichols was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. Following his military service in World War I, he went to the United States as the representative of the Ministry of Information in the British diplomatic mission. From 1921 to 1924 he held Lafcadio Hearne's chair of English literature at Tokyo Imperial University. Nichols published poetry, including Invocation, 1915; Ardours and Endurances; Fisbo, 1934; and Such was my Singing, 1942, drama Guilty Sould, 1922; Wings over Europe, 1929 and a novella, Under the Yew, 1929.

Eleanor (Ellie) Nichol, née Hiebert, is a Canadian poet, writer, and printer. In 1968, she met a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor, and creative writing teacher, Barrie Philip Nichol, known as bpNichol (1944-1988), at Therafields, a therapeutic organization, and they married in 1980. Together they wrote books of poetry, "A Bouquet as Thanks" (198?) and "One Thread: Two H's" (1987). They also published "Le Chien Bleu" (1985) and “Clouds and Water; An Exhibition of Works on Fabric and Paper” (1981). In 2012, she published the book "Refuting a.k.a. bpNichol."

Barrie Phillip Nichol, "bpNichol," was born on September 30, 1944, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor, and Professor of Creative Writing at York University in Toronto. He first received international recognition in the 1960s for concrete poetry. The first major publications included “Journeying & the returns (1967), a purple box containing visual & lyrical poems and “Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer” (1969), a book of concrete poetry. He won the 1970 Governor General's Award for poetry with not one but four publications: the prose booklet, “The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid,” a collection of lyrical poems, “Beach Head,” a box of concrete poetry cards, "Still Water," and “The Cosmic Chef,” a boxed anthology of Canadian concrete poems Nichol edited. He performed sound poetry in solo concerts, with various other performers, and as part of the group The Four Horsemen. In the early 1980s, Nichol programmed on a primitive Apple IIe "First Screening" (1993), a set of computer concrete poems. During the 1970s and 80s, he was a contributing editor of a literary magazine, Open Letter. In the 1980s, he also wrote for several children's television shows, e.g., Fraggle Rock, The Raccoons, Under the Umbrella Tree, Care Bears, and Babar. His best-known work, “The Martyrology” (1972-1992), is an open-ended, lifelong poem that investigates language. The bpNichol Chapbook Award, a prize for excellence in Canadian Poetry in English, was established in 1986 by Phoenix Community Works Foundation.

In 1980, he married Eleanor Hiebert. He died on September 25, 1988, in Toronto, Ontario.

Thomas Wodehouse Leah, 2nd Baron Newton, was born on March 18, 1857, in Hillington, Norfolk, England.

He was a British diplomat and Conservative politician. He was educated at Eton (1870-1874) and Christ Church, Oxford (1876-1879). In 1879, he was accepted into the Foreign Office and served as an attaché at the British Embassy in Paris from 1881 to 1886. In 1886, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for his home constituency of Newton, a seat he held until 1898 when he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Newton and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cheshire in 1901. In 1915, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him Paymaster-General, with special responsibility for representing the War Office in Parliament when the Secretary of State for War was unable to attend. The same year he was admitted to the Privy Council. In 1916, Lord Newton became Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He became controller of the newly established Prisoner of War Department, and in this position, he negotiated the release of thousands of British prisoners of war. He was also the author of two biographies, “Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons” (1913) and “Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne” (1929). In 1941, he published his memoirs, “Retrospection.”

In 1880, he married Evelyn Caroline Bromley-Davenport (1859–1931). He died on March 21, 1942, in London, England.