Harrold E. Gillingham was a Philadelpjia insurance broker and an enthusiastic collector. His collections included nautical instruments, manuscripts, and especially medals and awards of all sorts. He became one of the foremost American historians of gold and silver smith work, writing many books and articles about medals and awards from all over the world. He served as treasurer of the American Numismatic Society and held several offices with the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia. In 1930 he sold his collection of 4000 orders of chivalry and war medals.

Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet, was born on May 27, 1876, in Montrave, Fife, Scotland.

He was a Scottish Unionist politician. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond; the University of Edinburgh; and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He became a Lieutenant of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, served in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), and was awarded the Queen's medal. He was a member of the Fife county council from 1901 to 1910. He fought in World War I and, after the war, he re-entered politics. Gilmour was elected as a Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire (1910-1918) and Glasgow Pollok (1918-1940). In 1920, he inherited the title Baron Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave. He served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury (1921-1922), a member of the Privy Council in 1922, and Scottish Unionist Whip (1919-1922, 1924). He was appointed as Secretary for Scotland in 1924 and became the first Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926. In 1931, Gilmour became Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and, in 1932, Home Secretary, a post he held until 1935. From 1938 until he died in 1940, he served as Minister of Shipping. He also acted as Rector of Edinburgh University from 1926 to 1929. He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Glasgow (1925), the University of Edinburgh (1927), and the University of St. Andrews (1929).

In 1902, he married Mary Louise Lambert (1878–1919), and in 1920, he remarried Violet Agnes Lambert (1889–1977). He died on March 30, 1940, in London, England.

Edwin Gilpin was a mining engineer and Inspector of Mines for Nova Scotia from 1879.

John Bernard Gilpin was born on September 4, 1810, in Newport, Rhode Island.

He was a physician, surgeon, naturalist, author, and artist. He studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (B.A., 1831) and at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1834). In 1838, he practised medicine in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. In 1845, he travelled to London, England to pass the exam qualifying him as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He set up his practice in Halifax. Although his contributions to the medical profession in Nova Scotia were important, he is chiefly remembered as a naturalist. After his wife's death in 1851, he became deeply engrossed in the study of the fauna of Nova Scotia. He was a founder of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science (later the Nova Scotian Institute of Science) and served as its president (1873-1878). Over the next 20 years, he presented 34 papers on birds, fishes, seals, walruses, moose, beavers, serpents, fossils, and mammalia of Nova Scotia. He also wrote on the Stone Age and on the Indians of the province. His lecture "Sable Island: Its Past History, Present Appearance, Natural History, &c., &c." was published in Halifax in 1858. Gilpin’s papers were frequently illustrated with his own drawings. In 1882, he was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1846, he married Charlotte Smith (–1851). He died on March 12, 1892, in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.