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Numaticist and collector Howland Wood was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1877 and graduated from Brown University in 1900. Wood became a member of the American Numismatical Society in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed Curator, remaining in this position until his death in 1938.
Birkett, H. S. (Herbert Stanley), 1864-1942
Aldenham, Alban George Henry Gibbs, 1846-1936
Sir Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham, was born on April 23, 1846, in Naples, Italy.
He was a British Conservative Party politician and peer, the son of Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham (1819-1907). He was educated at Eton College and studied at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1870, M.A., 1881). At the 1892 general election, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held the seat until his resignation from the House of Commons on February 14, 1906, by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He succeeded to the title Baron Aldenham on September 13, 1907. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
In 1873, he married Bridget Beresford-Hope (-1896). He died on May 9, 1936, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.
Stephen Scobie is a critic, author and poet who was born in Carnoustie, Scotland in 1943 and emigrated to Canada in 1965. Scobie was co-chair along with Douglas Barbour of the League of Canadian Poets between 1971 and 1973. Scobie won the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1980 for McAlmon's Chinese Opera and the Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism in 1986. He received a PhD at the University of British Columbia and later taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Victoria in the English Department. Scobie is a founding editor of Longspool Press and his critical writings include works on Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet bpNichol and Bob Dylan. He has written over 20 collections of poetry and in 1995 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sir Sandford Arnot Fleming was born on January 7, 1827, in Kirkcaldy, Fife County, Scotland.
He was a Canadian civil engineer, scientist, and surveyor. He studied surveying in his hometown before immigrating to Canada in 1845. He began accumulating railway experience during the 1850s and 1860s when he served as Chief Engineer of various railways in Upper Canada and Nova Scotia. He also designed Canada's first postage stamp, the three-penny beaver, issued in 1851. In 1867, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Inter-Colonial Railway, which was to link Nova Scotia to central Canada as part of the Confederation Pact. In 1871, he was made Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in charge of supervising the construction of the railway that would extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Fleming led a gruelling cross-country survey expedition to pick a route for the railway. This surveying mission across Canada gave him the idea for a standard system of time zones. He proposed the system we use today, which was adopted in 1884, and he is known for this as the "Father of Standard Time." In 1880, he took the position of Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and held it for 35 years. He played a pivotal role in increasing the importance of science at Queen's. He was vice president of the Ottawa Horticultural Society and in 1888, he became the first president of the Rideau Curling Club. In 1897, he was knighted by Queen Victoria. Fleming was designated a National Historic Person in 1950, on the advice of the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board.
In 1855, he married Ann Jane "Jeannie" Hall (1831–1888). He died on July 22, 1915, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Fisher, H.A.L. (Herbert Albert Laurens), 1865-1940
Canadian writer Constance Beresford-Howe was born in 1922 and attended McGill University (B.A. 1945 and M.A. 1946). She received a PhD from Brown University in 1950 and taught English literature and creative writing at McGill in Montreal and Ryerson University in Toronto until her retirement in 1988. She authored 10 novels including, "The Book of Eve" (1973).
Mayo, William James, 1861-1939