Sir Edmund Walker Head was born on February 16, 1805, in Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent, England.

He was a British politician and diplomat. He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford, and in 1830, he was made a Fellow of Merton College. He was an Oxford scholar and tutor who published several books, e.g., “The Story of Viga Glum” (1866), which he had translated from the original Icelandic. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863. In 1847, Head was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (1847–1854). While Lieutenant Governor, he authorized the creation of an engineering faculty at the University of New Brunswick. This was the first such programme in what would become Canada. In 1854, he was appointed Governor-General of the Province of Canada and served until 1861. During his time in office, there was some controversy over his refusal to grant a dissolution to the Reform ministry at the time of the "Double Shuffle". He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1857, and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1860. Sir Edmund Head Hall is the name of the engineering building at the University of New Brunswick. Edmundston, New Brunswick, is named after him.

In 1838, he married Lady Anna Maria Yorke (1808–1890). He died on January 28, 1868, in London, England.

Tanfield George Headley was born on January 5, 1827, in Cambridge, England.

He was a solicitor and clergyman, educated at Trinity Hall of the Cambridge University. As a solicitor, he practised at Cambridge and at the Manor House, Petersham, Surrey (1860-1905). In 1869, he was ordained deacon and served at St. Peter's Church, Great Windmill Street in London. He wrote the book "Elementary and Primary Views of Religion" (1871).

In 1858, he married Elizabeth Hyde (1833–1869) and in 1879, he married Sarah Marianne Chittenden (1852–1927). He died on February 17, 1905, in Richmond, Surrey, England.

Robert Donald Hoskin Heard was born in St. Thomas, Ontario in 1908. He received his BA and MA (1930) from University of Toronto. From 1930 to 1933 he was an 1851 Research Fellow while he studied for his PhD (1932) in Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He spent one year at Oxford before returning to University of Toronto as a Banting Research Foundation grantee. He was an assistant professor at Dalhousie from 1937 to 1942. He was invited to join the McGill University Department of Biochemistry in 1942 where he remained until his death in 1957.

He pioneered work in synthesis of steroids containing radiolabelled isotopes. He authored many papers such as “A study of the oxidation of 3:4-dihydroxyphenyl-N-methylalanine with reference to its possible function as a precursor of adrenaline.” The Biochemical Journal. 27: 36-53 (1933).

William Heard was born on February 18, 1818, in Bideford, Devon, England.

He was a merchant. He arrived in Prince Edward Island in 1841.

In 1844, he married Maria Richards (1817–1883) and in 1888, he married Elizabeth Jory Thomas (1846-1918). He died on February 29, 1896, in Charlottetown, Queens, Prince Edward Island.

Nellie Lloyd Jones Heath was born on November 1849, in Tennessee, USA.

In 1880, she married Daniel Collamore Heath (1843-1908), an educator and founder and president of D. C. Heath and Company, a Boston textbooks publishing company (1885).

She died on March 29, 1917, in Newtonville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.