Romyn Hitchcock was born on December 1, 1851, in St. Louis, Missouri.

He was a research botanist, chemist, and educator. He attended Cornell University and graduated from Columbia School of Mines in 1872. He was an assistant professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Penn., (1872-1874) and engaged in testing heavy guns at the government arsenal in Springfield, Mass. (1874-1877). He taught chemistry and toxicology at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College (1876-1877) and served as an editor of the American Quarterly Microscopical Journal and the American Microscopical Journal (1878-1886). From 1883 to 1886, he was a curator of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. He was professor of English at the Koto Chu Gakko, a Japanese Government school in Osaka (1886-1889), and oversaw the photographic work of the U.S. eclipse expedition to Japan in 1887. He also served as U.S. commissioner to China for the World Columbian Exposition (1887-1889). He later conducted botanical research. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Microscopical Society of England and a member of the American Chemical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the New York Microscopical Society.

In 1875, he married Emma Louise Bingham (1852–1933). He died on November 30, 1923, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Born in Vienna in 1922, Walter Hitschfeld received his B.A.Sc in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1946 and his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from McGill University in 1950. He joined the staff of McGill's Physics Department in 1951. In 1961 he became Professor of Meteorology and Physics. Since 1962 Dr. Hitschfeld was Professor of Meteorology (Canada Steamship Lines). From 1964 to 1967 he was Chairman of the Meteorology Department, and from 1967 to 1971 Vice-Dean of Physical Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Then, in 1971, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and Vice-Principal of Research, and served this position until 1980. In 1981 Dr. Hitschfeld accepted the invitation to become Director of McGill International. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a member of the Canadian Association of Physicists, the Canadian Meteorological Society, of which he was President from 1973 to 1974, the American Meteorological Society and the Society of Sigma X. Dr. Hitschfeld authored more than 20 articles on cloud physics and related subjects, and received Darton Prizes for meteorological research in 1960, 1962 and 1963. To honour Dr. Hitschfeld's authority in cloud physics and radar meteorology, the Environmental Earth Sciences Library was named after him. Dr. Hitschfeld died in 1986 in Montreal.

Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, was born on February 24, 1880, in London, England.

He was a British Conservative politician and author. He was educated at Harrow School and New College, Oxford (B.A., 1903; M.A., 1910) and entered Parliament for Chelsea in 1910, retaining the constituency until 1944. During World War I, Hoare was a military officer, serving in missions to Russia (1916–1917) and Italy (1917–1918). After the war, in 1922, he became Secretary of State, holding the post until 1929 and helping to build Britain’s Royal Air Force. Hoare and Lady Maud travelled by air whenever possible, including the first civilian flight to India in 1927. By 1929, there were regular scheduled routes to India and Cape Town. From 1931 to 1935, as Secretary of State for India, he had the immense task of developing a parliamentary pilot of the bill, which gave India limited home rule and became the Government of India Act 1935. In 1935, he became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. After the outbreak of the Italo–Ethiopian War, he developed with Pierre Laval of France the so-called Hoare–Laval Plan for the partition of Ethiopian land between Italy and Ethiopia (then Abyssinia). The proposal drew immediate and widespread denunciation, forcing Hoare’s resignation on December 18, 1935. In 1936, he returned to the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, then served as Home Secretary from 1937 to 1939 and was again briefly Secretary of State for Air in 1940. He was part of the inner council that developed the Munich Pact in 1938 and became one of its staunchest defenders, further marking him as an appeaser, to the ultimate damage of his reputation. He also served as British ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944. On his retirement in 1944, he was made Viscount Templewood of Chelsea. He held several foreign honours, e.g., Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion of Czechoslovakia, Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star of Sweden, Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark, and Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands. He authored several books, e.g., "India by Air" (1927), “The Fourth Seal” (1930), “Ambassador on Special Mission” (1946), “The Unbroken Thread” (1949), “The Shadow of the Gallows” (1951), “Nine Troubled Years” (1954), and “Empire of the Air” (1957).

In 1909, he married Lady Maud Lygon (1882–1962). He died on May 7, 1959, in London, England.

Rev. William Kirk Hobart was born c. 1832.

He was a clergyman and author. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1860; L.L.D., 1872) and was ordained in 1861. He served as a curate of Derry and Raphoe diocese in Londonderry and a rector of Killanny in Ireland. He was a recognized expert in Greek medical literature. He wrote a treatise, "The Medical Language of St. Luke" (1882), dedicated to the Archbishop of Dublin.

In 1872, he married Annie E. Millar (1836–1913). He died on August 24, 1902, in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland.