Auckland Campbell Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes was born on June 21, 1879, in London, England.

He was a British academic, soldier, politician, and diplomat. He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa between 1901 and 1902. He was educated at George Watson's College, in Edinburgh. He then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating in 1903. From 1906 to 1909, Geddes was an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University. In 1909 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. From 1913 to 1914 he was a Professor of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. From 1913 to 1914, he was a Professor of Anatomy at McGill University. His academic career was interrupted by World War I during which he served as a Brigadier General in the War Office. In 1917, he was elected Unionist Member of Parliament for Basingstoke, a seat he held until 1920. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1917 and served under David Lloyd George as Director of National Service from 1917 to 1918, as President of the Local Government Board from 1918 to 1919, as Minister of Reconstruction in 1919 and as President of the Board of Trade from 1919 to 1920. Geddes was appointed Principal of McGill University in 1919 but never undertook his official duties. He resigned in 1920 when he was appointed British Ambassador to the United States which he served until 1924. He returned to public service during World War II when he served as Commissioner for Civil Defence in the County of Kent. In 1942, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Geddes, of Rolvenden in the County of Kent.

In 1906, he married Isabella Gamble Ross. He died on June 8, 1954, in Chichester, Sussex, England.

Gary Geddes was born on June 9, 1940, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He is a Canadian poet, writer, and professor. He studied at the University of British Columbia (B.A.) and the University of Toronto (M.A., Ph.D.). Geddes founded two literary presses in Ontario, Quadrant Editions, in 1981 and Cormorant Books, in 1986. He taught English and Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, for twenty years (1978–1998). Then he returned to the West Coast, where he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University (1998–2001). He also taught English at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and the University of Victoria, as well as serving as a writer-in-residence at Green College (UBC) and the Vancouver Public Library. In 2007, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Royal Roads University and, in 2008, the fifth annual Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. In 2018, he received Freedom to Read Award presented annually by The Writers Union of Canada in recognition of work that is passionately supportive of free expression. The literary critic George Woodcock described him as Canada's best political poet. Geddes has written and edited over thirty-five books, including seventeen books of poetry, as well as fiction, non-fiction, drama, translation, criticism, and anthologies, e.g., "Snakeroot" (1973), "Sailing Home: A Journey through Time, Place & Memory" (2001), and "Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care" (2017). He lives on Thetis Island, British Columbia.

Charlotte Leonora Geddie was born on March 10, 1822, in Merigomish, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

About 1840, she married John Geddie (1815–1872), a clergyman, one of the pioneer missionaries of the South Seas. In 1846, she accompanied her husband to the New Hebrides, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean and landed on the island of Aneityum, inhabited by cannibals. Their missionary work among the islanders continued for many years, instructing and converting them, and frequently risking their lives in their endeavours to propagate the gospel. In 1856, their daughter Charlotte Anne joined them at Aneityum, helping her mother to teach the native women.

She died on January 1, 1916, in Malvern, Stonnington City, Victoria, Australia.

Rev. John Geddie was born on April 10, 1815, in Banff, Scotland.

He was a clergyman, one of the pioneer missionaries of the South Seas. In 1816, his family emigrated and settled in Pictou, Nova Scotia where he attended the Pictou Academy. In 1838, he was ordained as pastor of a congregation at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. He studied the work of the London Missionary Society and in 1846, he was sent as a missionary to New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) landing on the island of Aneityum, inhabited by cannibals. His wife joined him and their missionary work among the islanders continued for over 20 years, instructing and converting them in the hope of eliminating some of their practices such as cannibalism, infanticide, and the sacrifice of the wives after the death of their husbands. He translated the Scriptures into two of the native languages, and after long laborious application, he produced the translation of the New Testament.

In 1839, he married Charlotte Leonora MacDonald (1822-1916). He died on December 14, 1872, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.