John Clarence Webster was born 21 October 1863 in Shediac, New Brunswick where he did his primary studies. He graduated from Mount Allison College of Sackville, NB in 1882 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1883, he began his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Masters in Surgery in 1888. During the course of his medical training he went to Leipzig and Berlin. He worked as an assistant in the Department of Midwifery and Diseases of Women at the University of Edinburgh until his return to Canada in 1896. He settled in Montreal and was appointed Lecturer in Gynecology at McGill University and Assistant Gynecologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1899, he accepted an offer to fill the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush Medical College, affiliated with the University of Chicago. He also pursued work in Hospital at the Presbyterian Hospital, the Central Free Dispensary, and at the St Anthony’s and St Joseph’s Hospitals of that city. He retired from active work in 1920. During his career he won several prizes, scholarships and honours. He also contributed as a collaborator to various medical journals and, while in Chicago, was one of the Editors-in-Chief of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Besides medicine, Webster was deeply interested in History and in his later years was active in the preservation of historic sites in Canada and served for seven years as chairman of the National Historic Sites and Monuments of Canada board.

James Claude Webster was born on October 17, 1830, in London, England.

He was a lawyer, judge, and barrister. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1854. Webster was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of its council. He served as Secretary of the Athenaeum Club, London. His article "Inns of Court" appeared in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

In 1857, he married Georgiana Susan Hardcastle Spry (1833–1882), and in 1884, he remarried Frances Juliana Hooman (1852–1938). He died on October 25, 1908, in Torquay, Devon, England.

Arthur Douglas Webster was born on April 30, 1857, in Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia.

He was a physician. He graduated from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine in 1878. Soon afterwards, he settled in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1884 and practiced medicine for sixty years. Before World War I, he served as Volunteer Medical Officer of the 4th Battalion Royal Scots. On the outbreak of the war in 1914, he was appointed Medical Officer of the 1st Edinburgh Battalion and later 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th Battalion Royal Scots. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services rendered during the war.

In 1881, he married Mary Wilks Parsons Logan (1856–1933). He died on March 15, 1841, in Edinburgh, Scotland.