Henry Julian Lyall was born on February 6, 1855, in Gayton Le Wold, Lincolnshire, England.

He was an educator. He studied at Lincoln School, Bonn University, and Christ's College, Cambridge (1876-1877). In 1881, he was Principal of McTavish School in Montreal, Quebec. In 1883, he became a founding headmaster of Lincoln College, Sorel, Quebec (1883-1888). In 1890, he moved to the United States and worked as a teacher in New York and Vermont.

In 1881, he married Edith Mary Earnshaw (1858–1887). He died on April 29, 1924, in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont.

Steve Luxton was born in 1946 in Coventry, England.

He is a Canadian poet. His family moved to Canada in 1957. He studied at the University of Toronto and Syracuse University. He taught English Literature at John Abbott College, St.-Anne-de-Belle-Vue, Quebec, and Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He was an original editor of Matrix and The Moosehead Review and co-owner and editor of the Montreal publishing company started by Louis Dudek, DC Books, from 1987 to 2012. He left to focus on creating his own work. Luxton was also a founding member of the now-defunct Montreal Storytellers, an oral storytelling group that performed in both Canada and the U.S. He is the author of several collections of poems, e.g., "The Hills that Pass By" (1987), "Luna Moth and Other Poems" (2004), "In the Vision of Birds: New and Selected Poems" (2012), and "The Dying Meteorologist" (2019).

Luxton lives near Ayer's Cliff, the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

Sonia Sophie Von De Guern was born on June 6, 1869, in Tiflis, Tiflis Guberniya, Russian Empire.

She married Alfred Lorand Lustig (1865-1935) on July 10, 1897, in New York City, New York. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Hyde Park, Norfolk, Massachusetts in 1900.

She died on December 27, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island.