Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield, was born on January 31, 1856, in London, England.

He was a British landowner and bank director. He was educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1876). A great temperance campaigner, he also served as Justice of the Peace and County Alderman for county Stafford. He succeeded his father as the 3rd Earl of Lichfield on January 7, 1892.

In 1878, he married Lady Mildred Coke (1854–1941). He died in a shooting accident on July 29, 1918, in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.

William A. Libbey was born on March 27, 1855, in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, a son of William Libbey (1820-1895), a wealthy New York City merchant, and Elizabeth Conklin Marsh (1825-1907), and a brother of Jonas Marsh Libbey (1857-1922), a businessman and editor and proprietor of the Princeton Review.

He was an American professor of physical geography at Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton in 1877, where he was responsible for the adoption of orange and black as the school colours, he went on the Princeton scientific expedition to the West. He continued his studies in Berlin and Paris and in 1879, he received his doctorate in geology from Princeton University. In 1880, he was appointed as director of the Elizabeth Marsh Museum of Geology and Archaeology as well as an associate professor of physical geography. In 1883, he became a full professor and continued to teach physical geography classes. In the 1912 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal as a member of the U.S. Olympic Rifle Team. He also served as a president of the American Rifle Association and was a colonel in the New Jersey National Guard.

In 1880, he married Mary Elizabeth Green (1859–1931). He died on September 6, 1927, in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey.

Jonas Marsh Libbey was born on April 8, 1857, in Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, a son of William Libbey (1820-1895), a wealthy New York City merchant and Elizabeth Conklin Marsh (1825-1907), and a brother of William A. Libbey (1855-1927), a Princeton University professor.

He was an American businessman, lawyer, editor, and publisher. He graduated from Princeton University in 1877 (B.A.) and did postgraduate work at the University of Berlin (1878) and University of Leipzig (1879), becoming editor and proprietor of the Princeton Review (1877-1885). He then attended Oxford University (1885) and New York Law School (1891-1893). He was active in the field of economics and industrial investigation. The US government commissioned him its agent in 1895 to investigate the industrial conditions in England. He was a member of the American Social Science Association, the New England Society, and the New York Historical Society. He was one of the founders of the Authors' Club of New York in 1882.

He died tragically falling off the 25-story Municipal Building on February 1, 1922, in New York, New York.