Mary Lawrance Kearse (1781-1845) was a British botanical illustrator who specialized in flowers. She also taught botanical illustration.

Frederick Lawford was born on August 14, 1821, in Antwerp, Belgium.

He was educated at the Royal Academy School in London and by 1841, he articled in the office of Sir Charles Barry, one of the most important architects in London during the first half of the 19th century. He assisted him as clerk of works on the construction of his prize-winning design for Parliament Buildings at Westminster in London. In 1849, he formed a firm with the Irish-born architect Richard W. Heneker, also a pupil of Barry (1849-1855). In 1855, they both emigrated to Montreal, Quebec. Lawford was asked by John W. Hopkins and James Nelson to join them as a partner and their new firm was renamed Hopkins, Lawford & Nelson. It proved to be an intellectual powerhouse of new architectural ideas, and, during the next four years, they became one of the most influential architectural offices in eastern Canada. They received commissions in Kingston, Montreal, Ottawa and elsewhere. Lawford brought his scholarly knowledge of British architecture and their collective body of work from 1855 to 1859 had dignity and presence rarely attained in 19th century Canada. Even after the departure of J.W. Hopkins in late 1859, Lawford & Nelson continued to collaborate for another six years on many exemplary ecclesiastical and commercial works in Montreal and surrounding towns which set a new standard for refined and sophisticated architectural design.

In 1856, he married Annie Shaw Adamson. He died on August 11, 1866, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, a victim of a typhoid epidemic.

Anne Lawford was the mother of John Bowring Lawford, who left a substantial legacy to McGill University. She was the daughter of Charles Adamson Low, of the firm of Hamilton and Low at Hawkesbury and later resided in Montréal.

Andrew Bonar Law was born on September 16, 1858, in Rexton, New Brunswick.

He was a British Conservative politician. In 1870, after the death of his mother, he moved to Scotland to live with an aunt. He attended the High School of Glasgow. In 1874, at the age of 16, he left school to become a clerk at Kidston & Sons and, in 1885, a managing partner with William Jacks, an iron merchant. He attended night lectures at Glasgow University, which sparked an interest in politics and debating. He joined the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association. With an inheritance that gave him financial independence, Law entered politics. In 1900, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Glasgow Blackfriars. He had a reputation for honesty and fearlessness and was well regarded as an effective speaker. These qualities promoted him to Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1902. In 1911, he became head of the Conservative Party and, after the outbreak of the First World War, he formed a coalition government with Herbert Asquith. From 1915 to 1916, he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies and from 1916 to 1919, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Law became the only Canadian to be Prime Minister of Great Britain from October 1922 to May 1923 when he resigned due to ill health.

In 1891, he married Annie Pitcairn Robley (1866–1909). He died on October 30, 1923, in London, England.