Edward King was born in Norfolk and educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. Though he practised law, a private fortune enabled him to pursue a literary career for most of his life. He was an antiquarian, but his major obsessions were public policy and religion, and he wrote a large number of proposals and tracts on subjects ranging from naval education to the angelic ancestry of John the Baptist.

Physicist Louis Vessot King was born in Toronto, and graduated with a B.A from McGill in 1905 at the age of nineteen. Encouraged by Ernest Rutherford to continue his study of physics, King went to Cambridge where he received his B.A. in 1908. In 1915 he was awarded a D.Sc. from McGill. King's long teaching career at McGill began in 1910 with his appointment as sessional Lecturer in physics. He became Assistant Professor in 1913, Associate Professor in 1915, and was Macdonald Professor of Physics from 1920 until his retirement in 1938. King's major research and publishing interests lay in fog alarm research, applications of electromagnetism, heat convection, and radiation. He developed the gyromagnetic electron theory, invented the hot-wire anemometer and worked on methods of submarine detection during World War I. He passed away in 1956.

Moses King was born on April 13, 1853, in London, England.

He was an editor and publisher of travel guidebooks. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. After working for several years, he returned to school and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1879 and Harvard College in 1881. He published his first guidebook while still in college, titled “Harvard and Its Surroundings.” After college he held a series of jobs in the publishing industry, working for Science magazine, Bradstreet's magazine, and Rand-Avery Co. From 1878 onward, he steadily published travel guidebooks and in 1888, he formally established the Moses King Corporation. He published numerous King's illustrated publications about Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and other places in the U.S. The books received positive reviews and were published in several editions.

In 1881, he married Bertha M. Cloyer (1860–1941). He died on June 12, 1909, in New York, New York, and is buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts.