John Lang Morris was born on March 24, 1835, in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, son of Col. Hon. William Morris (1786-1858), Receiver-General for Canada and brother of Alexander Morris (1826-1889), Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.

He was a lawyer. He was educated at Montreal High School and at McGill University (B.C.L., 1859). He was called to the bar in 1859 and practised his profession in Montreal with Judge Torrance, T. W. Richie, and Sir William Rose, with whom he was connected until his death. In 1887, he was created a Queen's Counsel. In commercial, civil, and ecclesiastical law, he was regarded for many years as one of the greatest exponents in the province.

In 1860, he married Agnes McCulloch (1832–1900). He died on April 1, 1906, in Montreal, Quebec.

Hon. Alexander Morris was born on March 17, 1826, in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, son of Col. Hon. William Morris (1786-1858), Receiver-General for Canada.

He was a lawyer and politician. He attended local schools, then went to Scotland and attended Madras College, St. Andrew's, and the University of Glasgow. Upon his return to Canada, he entered the firm of Heward and Thorne, commission merchants of Montreal, then he articled in law in Kingston. He attended McGill University, where he obtained his B.A., M.A., B.C.L., and D.C.L. In 1851, he entered the Montreal law office of Badgley and Morris and was called to the bar of Upper Canada. In 1861, Morris was elected as a Conservative member for Lanark in the Legislative Assembly of Canada West and held this seat until 1867. He was a member of the federal Parliament for Lanark from 1867 to 1872, and from 1869 to 1872 was Minister of Inland Revenue. In 1872, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba, and later in that same year was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, a position he held until 1877. He was also appointed Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Manitoba, a position he held from 1873 to 1875.

In 1851, he married Margaret Olive Cline (1826–1915). He died on October 28, 1889, in Toronto, Ontario.

David Morrice was born on August 11, 1829, in St. Martins, Perthshire, Scotland.

He was a textile tycoon and philanthropist. He was educated in Scotland. He engaged in mercantile business in Dublin, Ireland, in Liverpool, London, and Manchester, England. He came to Canada in 1855, first locating in Toronto and later in Montreal, where he established the firm of D. Morrice & Co., in the general merchandise line, and manufacturers' agents, controlling over 40 cotton and woolen mills (Canadian Cottons, Ltd.). He was also President of Montreal Freehold Investment Co., President of Penmans, Ltd., Director of the Bank of Montreal; Director of the Royal Trust Co., and Director in the Dominion Textile, Ltd. He was one of the original members of the Board of Trade of Montreal and the chairman of the Presbyterian College's Board of Trustees. He donated a substantial sum of money to allow for the College's expansion in 1880. The new building was named "Morrice Building" in his honour.

In 1860, he married Annie Stephenson Anderson (1841–). He died on December 19, 1914, in Toronto, Ontario.

Henry Albert Morrell was born on January 23, 1830, in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine.

He was a brick manufacturer at Pittsfield, Maine. He was also a man of good literary attainments, well known by his nom de plume "Juniper". He contributed numerous articles on topics of the day to the Pittsfield Advertiser.

In 1851, he married Sarah Jane Springer (1830-1862) and in 1869, he remarried Marada Jane Mills (1851–1904). He died on February 3, 1912, in Pittsfield, Maine.

William Felix Edmund Morley was born on September 25, 1920, in London, England.

He was a librarian, bibliographer, and author. He served with the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1946 and came to Canada in 1947. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1952; B.L.S., 1953) and Queen’s University (M.A., 1982). From 1953 to 1954, he was Chief Librarian at YM-YWHA, Montreal, Quebec. He also served as Chief Librarian and Archivist at the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Montreal (1954-1959). From 1959 to 1964, he was Bibliographer at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Morley came to Queen's University in 1964 and served as Curator of the Special Collections Unit, Douglas Library, until his retirement in 1985. His many bibliographical publications include “The Atlantic Provinces: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island “ (1967), “La province de Quebec” (with André Beaulieu, 1971), “A Bibliographical Study of Major John Richardson” (1973), and “Ontario and the Canadian North” (1978). Morley also edited a revised version of Freda Farrell Waldon’s “Bibliography of Canadiana published in Great Britain, 1519-1763” (1990). In 1957, he became a member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC). He served as its Vice-President from 1968 to 1971, President from 1972 to 1973, and was on Council in 1974 and 1975. Morley was a member of the Canadian Historical Association, the Ontario Historical Society, and the Kingston Historical Society. In 1977, he received the Tremaine Medal for services to bibliography and Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. In 2003, Morley and his second wife, Beth Watters Morley, created and endowed the Watters-Morley Prize of the BSC. He was made an honorary member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada in 2007.

He died on December 19, 2017, in Kingston, Ontario.