Alfred Cort Haddon was born on May 24, 1855, in London, England.

He was a British anthropologist, ethnologist, and author. He studied zoology at Cambridge University (B.A., 1879; M.A., 1882; Sc.D., 1897). He also studied marine biology in Naples, France. In 1879, he was appointed as Curator in Zoology and Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge. He became Professor of Zoology at the College of Science in Dublin (1880-1901) where he founded the Dublin Field Club in 1885. In the 1880s and 1890s, he went on expeditions to the Torres Strait Islands, New Guinea, and Borneo to study coral reefs and marine zoology. He brought home a large collection of ethnographical specimens, found today in the British Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. He also became interested in anthropology, publishing many papers dealing with the indigenous people. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899. In 1900, he was appointed lecturer in ethnology at the University of Cambridge, and reader in 1909, a post he held until his retirement in 1926. After WWI, he founded the School of Anthropology at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was president of Section H (Anthropology) in the British Association meetings of 1902 and 1905. He was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, of the Folk Lore Society, and of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. He contributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Dictionary of National Biography, and Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.

In 1881, he married Fanny Elizabeth Rose (1857–1937). He died on April 20, 1940, in Cambridge, England.

Joseph Hadfield was born in 1759 in Bonchurch, England and died in 1851. Hadfield moved to America while in his youth. He was a cotton merchant and a personal friend of James McGill, and documented the commercial fur trade in Canada in the late 18th century.

George Hadrill was born in London, England, in 1848. He joined the staff of the Montreal Board of Trade in 1877, was made assistant secretary in 1880, and secretary in 1886, a position he held for over 28 years. He died in 1902.

Alfred R. Haemmerle was a Russian citizen. His ancestors, Dutch-Alsatians by origin were driven out of France during the French Revolution and settled on the shores of the Black Sea. His great-grandfather, Jean-Charles Haemmerle, was the pioneer builder of the port and City of Odessa. Alfred's father, Jean Haemmerle (1824-1894), a wealthy exporter of grain and wool built the Port in Berdiansk, South Russia and became the Lord Mayor of the City. Alfred R. Haemmerle was born in 1875 in Berdiansk, graduated with B.Sc.from the Russian college, and was also educated in France and Germany. He started his career in Russian commercial banks and five years later he opened his own import-export business. He accumulated land and was the Director of the largest Farm Implement Plant in Russia.In 1907 Alfred was one of the organizers of the Central Bank of Mutual Credit Societies in St. Petersburg, and from 1909 to 1916 he acted as assistant manager. He became president of the Credit Bank in Habarofsk, Eastern Siberia, and represented Eastern Siberia in the Standing Committee of the Council of Russian Trade, Exchanges and Agriculture. The largest part of his capital was made as a broker in precious metals. The Russian Revolution of 1917 forced him to leave the country with his wife Amy (1887-1957) and son Anatole (1908-1986). After travelling through Vladivostok and Tokyo he finally settled in Montreal in 1920. He became Canadian citizen in 1928. Throughout the Second World War he served the Postal Censorship Board in Ottawa using his language skills. Anatole was briefly at McGill, where he helped to establish the McGill Light Aeroplane Club in 1926. After serving the Army in the war he moved to Massachusetts, where he was employed in insurance.