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.
D.O. Hebb, one of the outstanding psychologists of this century, was born in Nova Scotia July 20th, 1904. He was educated at Dalhousie (B.A., 1925) and McGill (M.A. 1932). He taught briefly in public schools. While recovering from a serious illness, he read the works of Pavlov and Karl Lashley and became interested in psychology. He studied under Lashley in Chicago and at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. Hebb then conducted research on brain-damaged patients with Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute (1937-1939), and after teaching at Queen's (1941-1942), went to the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology as research fellow (1942-1947). In 1947 he came to McGill as Professor of psychology, serving as chairman of the department (1948-1959), Vice-Dean for biological sciences (1964-1966), and finally Chancellor of the University (1970-1972). He passed away on August 20th, 1985.
