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Robert Unwin Harwood was born in Sheffield, England. He came to Canada to work for the family-owned wholesale hardware house of John Harwood and Co. of Montréal. In 1823 he married the eldest daughter of Michel Eustache Gaspard Alain Chartier de Lotbinière. When his wife inherited the seigneury of Vaudreuil in 1829, Harwood exchanged trade in Montréal for management of the estate. In 1832 he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. After 1840 he did not actively participate in politics until 1847 when he stood for election in Vaudreuil as a Reform candidate. He was defeated then and again in 1851 and 1854. Harwood was finally elected to the assembly from Vaudreuil in 1858. In 1860 he resigned his seat and won election to the Legislative Council for Rigaud.

English antiquarian and archaeologist Frederick William Hasluck headed for the British School in Athens after graduating with a first class degree in Classics from Kings’ College in London in 1904. His excavations in Greece included several involving ancient bridges; he later became assistant director (1911-1915) as well as librarian (1906-1915). In 1913, he married Margaret Hardie and the two spent the spring together in Konya in Turkey (ancient Iconium); though based at the School in Athens, they also worked in the Balkans. Hasluck wrote extensively, especially about Christianity within the Islamic Turkish Empire. The managing committee of the BSA, influenced by a former colleague, fired Hasluck in 1915. The couple remained in Athens, helping with British wartime intelligence, but the following year they moved to Switzerland where Hasluck entered a tuberculosis sanatorium and died four years later.

Sylvester Hassell was born on July 28, 1842, in Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina.

He was an educator, scholar, writer, and Primitive Baptist preacher. He was educated at the Williamston Academy and then attended The University of North Carolina (LL.D., 1861, honorary M.A., 1867) where he was president of the Philanthropic Society. Afterward, he returned to Williamston to assist his father Cushing Biggs Hassell (1808-1880), a merchant and esteemed Primitive Baptist minister. He chose education as a career, teaching at Williamston Academy (1865-1868) and Delaware State Normal College (1869-1871). He was principal of William Collegiate Institute at Wilson (1872-1886). He succeeded his father as moderator of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Association (1880-1928) and agreed to revise and complete his unfinished manuscript "History of the Church of God from the Creation" (1886). He was pastor at Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church (1880-1928) and an associate editor of The Gospel Messenger, the monthly magazine of the "Primitive Baptist Faith and Order". In 1896, he purchased the monthly and moved it to Williamston.

In 1869, he married Mary Isabella Yarrell (1848–1871) and in 1876, he married Francis Louise Woodward (1859–1889). He died on August 18, 1928, in Martin County, North Carolina.