Charles Cesarie Glackmeyer was born on June 22, 1820, in Montreal, Quebec.

He served as Montreal's City Clerk from 1859 to 1891. He wrote and contributed to many laws and charters publications, e.g., “The By-Laws of the City of Montreal: With an Appendix” (1865) and "Appendix to the Charter and By-Laws of the City of Montreal: Containing Amendments to the Charter and By-Laws Passed Since the Last Publication of the Municipal Laws in 1865" (1870).

In 1848, he married Marie Reine Josephine Duvernay (–1899). He died on April 9, 1892, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. Solomon Washington Gladden was born on February 11, 1836, in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania.

He was an American Congregational pastor, a leader in the Social Gospel movement, and an author. At 16, he worked as an apprentice at the Owego Gazette. In 1854, he became part of the temperance movement and decided to become a minister. He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts in 1859. He was ordained in 1860 and started his first position at the State Street Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York, followed by a call to the Congregational Church at Morrisania, New York (1861-1866), and a pastorate in North Adams, Massachusetts (1866-1871). In 1871, he became the religious editor of the New York Independent, a position that has earned him national recognition. In 1875, Gladden became pastor of the North Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, and in 1882, he moved on to the First Congregational Church in Columbus, Ohio where he served for 36 years. He furthered his national reputation as a religious leader and as a community leader by his preaching, lecturing, writing, and active involvement. He was one of the first leading U.S. religious figures to support the unionization of the workforce; he also opposed racial segregation. In 1885, he took part in forming the American Economic Association and served on its Council. He was a prolific writer, with 66 books and pamphlets to his credit, as well as a number of hymnals. By life’s end, he had received 35 honorary doctorates and lectured, among other places, at Notre Dame, Yale, Oxford, and Harvard.

In 1860, he married Jennie O. Cohoon (1840–1909). He died on July 2, 1918, in Columbus, Ohio.

Amateur artist Elizabeth Gladstone was born in London. She was the daughter of British chemist John Hall Gladstone, Fullerian Professor at the Royal Institution who was best known for the application of optical phenomena to chemical problems; he also ordered the elements known at the time by atomic weight. She lived in Kensington until her marriage in 1896 to Henri Bach after which she moved to France and was known as Madame Bach Gladstone. Her watercolours, many of which are of Kensington, are signed. E.A.G. She donated 67 paintings to the Kensington Library in 1933. Her older sister Florence was also a water colourist and local historian. Her much younger half-sister Margaret, born in 1870 from her widowed father’s second wife, married Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

Florence Gladstone was, like her sister of artist Elizabeth Gladstone, a water colour enthusiast, but she is best known as a Kensington local historian. Her book “Notting Hill in Bygone Days” published in 1924, went through many editions. An album of her water colour sketches painted in the 1870s, was auctioned at Mallam’s in Oxford in 2013. A school for girls on Worthington Road in North Kensington bore her name from 1951 to 1958, when it became a boys’ school.

Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, was born on January 7, 1854, in London, England, son of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), a UK Prime Minister (1868-1894).

He was a British Liberal politician. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, and lectured in history at Keble College, Oxford (1877–1880). In 1880, he entered politics as a private secretary to his father and the same year, Gladstone was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Leeds, a post he held until 1910. He served as Lord of Treasury (1881), Financial Secretary to the War Office (1886), Under-Secretary of the Home Office (1892–1894), First Commissioner of Works (1894–1895), Chief Whip to the Liberal Party (1899–1906), and Home Secretary (1905–1910). In 1910, he was appointed 1st Governor-General of South Africa and also the High Commissioner. Gladstone was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and raised to the peerage as Viscount Gladstone, of the County of Lanark, in 1910. Upon his return from South Africa in 1914, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and spent much of the First World War being involved with various charities, e.g., the War Refugees Committee and the South African Hospital Fund. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1917.

In 1901, he married Lady Dorothy Mary Paget (1876–1953). He died on March 6, 1930, in Ware, Hertfordshire, England.

John Hall Gladstone was born on March 7, 1827, in London, England.

He was a British chemist and philanthropist. He was educated privately before studying chemistry at University College London and at the University of Giessen, Germany. On his return to London in 1850, he was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry in St. Thomas's Hospital, and in 1853, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served on the Royal Commission on Lighthouses, Buoys, and Beacons (1859-1862) and on the Gun Cotton Committee (1864–1868). During 1874–1877, Gladstone held the Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry at the Royal Institution and was first President of the Physical Society, of which he was one of the founders. He was also President of the Chemical Society from 1877 to 1879. He helped lay the foundation of modern physical chemistry.

In 1852, he married Jane May Tilt (1830–1864) and in 1869, he married Margaret Thompson King (1844–1870). He died on October 6, 1902, in London, England.