William Lochhead was born in Perth, Ontario, and educated at McGill (B.A. 1885) and Cornell (M.A. 1895). After teaching in secondary schools and at the Ontario Collegiate Institute in Guelph, he joined the faculty at Macdonald College in 1905 as a Professor of entomology and zoology; his major research specialty was economic entomology. He retired as Emeritus Professor in 1925.

Douglas Grant Lochhead was born on March 25, 1922, in Guelph, Ontario.

He was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer, and educator. He graduated from McGill University (B.A., 1943) and was accepted into Medical school, but instead, he joined the Canadian Army. His experiences in the Canadian military formed the basis for his 1984 book, "The Panic Field: Prose Poems". He studied English at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1947) and Library Science at McGill University (B.L.S., 1951). Lochhead served as a librarian at Victoria College (now the University of Victoria, 1951-1952), Cornell University, New York (1953), Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia (1953-1960), York University, and the University of Toronto, where he was also a professor of English. He was the Director of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and its writer-in-residence until his retirement in 1990. He published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 1959 to 2009. In 1976, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1977, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. He was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry in 1981 and won the 2005 Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize and the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts.

In 1949, he married Jean St. Clair Beckwith (1924–1991). He died on March 15, 2011, in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Joseph Albert Lobley was born on February 10, 1840, in Liverpool, England.

He was a Church of England clergyman and educator. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1863) and was ordained priest in 1864. He served as vicar at Hamer, near Rochdale (1867-1873) and in 1873, Ashton Oxenden, Anglican bishop of Montreal, invited him to come to Canada as principal of the proposed Montreal Diocesan Theological College. The Montreal college opened under Lobley’s guidance on Sept. 22, 1873. He also taught the entire course in theology. In 1877, he left for Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, where he stayed as administrator, professor, and rector until 1885. He returned to England and served first as organizing secretary in Cambridge (1886-1887) and later as vicar of Sedbergh.

In 1867, he married Elizabeth Anne Mais (1839-1947). He died on January 6, 1889, in Sedbergh, England.