Marmaduke Matthews was born on August 29, 1837, in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England.

He was a landscape painter. He attended Cowley School, Oxford, England, where he studied watercolour painting under T. M. Richardson. He also studied art at London University, England. In 1860, he moved to Canada and settled in Toronto, Ontario. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and the Rocky Mountains. He worked under William van Horne, then-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and made several cross-country trips to Canada's west (1887, 1889, and 1892). He was one of the founders of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In Toronto, he is remembered as the creator of Wychwood Park in 1874. His works are part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

In 1864, he married Cyrilda Jane Bernard (1843-1931). He died on September 24, 1913, in Toronto, Ontario.

George Frederick Matthew was born on August 12, 1837, in Saint John, New Brunswick.

He was a civil servant, geologist, paleontologist, curator, and author. He attended the Saint John Grammar School and entered public service in 1853 as a clerk in the provincial Treasury Department. He was appointed chief clerk of the Saint John customs service in 1879 and surveyor of customs in 1893, a position he held until his retirement in 1915. In 1857, he helped found the Steinhammer Club, the direct precursor of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. Matthew became the first curator of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. He also worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. He was a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada and published more than 200 scientific papers. He received honorary doctorates from Laval University and the University of New Brunswick and was awarded the Geological Society of London's Murchison Medal in 1917.

In 1868, he married Katherine Mary Diller (1842-1923). He died on April 14, 1923, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and is buried in Gondola Point, New Brunswick.