Mark Steven Morton was born on December 31, 1963.

He is a Canadian writer. He is the author of the books "Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities" (1996), “Cooking with Shakespeare” (1996), co-authored with Andrew Coppolino, "The End: Closing Words for a Millennium" (1999), "The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex” (2004) and “Dirty Words: The Story of Sex Talk” (2005).

Harry Stafford Morton was born in Port Greville, NS, on 18 August 1905, the son of Charles Stewart (1876-1955) and Maie Howard (Stafford) Morton (1879-1931). He studied at St. Andrew's College in Toronto, Ontario, from 1918 to 1921 and Dalhousie University (BA, 1925; MSc, 1927). He studied medicine at the University of London. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1935 and was added to the Medical Register of the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1937. In 1938 he joined the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as a surgeon commander with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve until the end of the Second World War. He retired as a surgeon captain in 1945. Thereafter, he taught at McGill University Medical School and served as Chairman of the Surgical Fellow Training Program from 1946 to 1964. He was a honourary attending surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital from 1937 to 1970. From 1960 to 1969, he was the chief surgeon at Queen Mary’s Veterans Hospital in Montreal. Morton founded the Quebec Tumour Registry and was Chairman of the Cancer Committee of the Quebec Medical Society. He was made a patron of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999 and served as the Chairman and Chief Examiner of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Colin Morton was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario.

He is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Descant, The Fiddlehead, Arc, Grain, The Malahat Review, Ascent, The North American Review, and other publications. He was a member of the performance group First Draft, which recorded, published, and performed across Canada in the 1980s. More recently, his poetry has explored aspects of world history. His book “The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major” (2009) is a poetic documentary about the exile in Canada of Lakota chief Sitting Bull and his relationship with Major James Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police. In 1986 and 2001, he won the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry.

He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Alexander Morton was born on September 11, 1854, New Orleans, Louisiana.

He was a naturalist and museum director. He moved to Australia as a child with his father Thomas William Morton, who migrated to Queensland as general manager of the Manchester Queensland Cotton Co. Alexander was a seaman for about two years. He visited England and Europe briefly but returned to Australia to study the natural sciences. He was a curator's assistant at the Australian Museum, Sydney (1877-1882) and took part in expeditions to New Guinea (1877), the Solomon Islands (1881), and Queensland and Lord Howe Island (1882). In 1884, he became Curator of the Royal Society of Tasmania's museum and its library in Hobart (renamed the Tasmanian Museum, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens in 1885). By 1891, he had reorganized the museum, using the latest British Museum labelling methods, and evolved a highly regarded system of classification and arrangement. He was made Director of both the Tasmanian Museum and Botanical Gardens in 1904. He was also honorary secretary of the Royal Society from 1887 to 1907. He helped establish the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Launceston and acted as an honorary curator in 1891-1896. As general secretary of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (Hobart, 1892), he edited its reports and papers. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, London (1889).

In 1884, he married Caroline Eliza Mills (1856-1914). He died on May 27, 1907, in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia.