Charles Kingsley was born near Dartmoor and educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He took holy orders, and eventually held canonries at Chester (1869) and Westminster (1873). His enormous literary output is varied, comprising poetry, fiction, history, and children's literature (The Water Babies, 1863). His profound concern with social reform is reflected in pamphlets and in his novel Alton Locke (1850), while his enthusiasm for patriotic historical fiction produced Westward Ho! (1855) and Hereward the Wake (1866). Kingsley was Professor of modern history at Cambridge from 1860 to 1869, where his controversy with John Henry Newman provoked the latter's Apologia. Kingsley also published numerous sermons.

George Templeman Kingston was born on October 5, 1816, in Oporto, Porto, Portugal.

He was a meteorologist, author, professor, and public servant. In 1830, after elementary schooling in England, he went into the Royal Navy as a midshipman and won a gold medal for mathematics at the Naval College in Portsmouth. In 1842, he left the Navy and became a student in mathematics at Cambridge (B.A., 1846; M.A., 1849). In 1852, he moved to Canada to become the first principal of a Nautical College in Quebec. When the school closed in 1855, he was appointed Professor of Meteorology at the University of Toronto and director of the magnetic observatory in Toronto, a position he held until 1880. From 1855 to 1864, Kingston published the annual mean meteorological results at Toronto in the Canadian Journal and a number of papers in both the Canadian Journal and the British American Magazine. He was also vice-president of the Canadian Institute. Because of his role in promoting and organizing the national meteorological service, Kingston is called the “Father of Canadian Meteorology."

In 1851, he married Harriette Malone (1828–1909). He died on January 21, 1886, in Toronto, Ontario.

Son of the 10th Lord Kinnaird, Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird was a British principal of the Football Association and a leading footballer considered by some as the first football star. He played in nine FA Cup Finals, a record that stands to this day. His record of five wins in the competition stood until 2010.
Kinnaird also served as president of The FA for 33 years.[1] For his contributions to football and the FA Cup, he was given the FA Cup trophy itself to keep in 1911 when a new trophy was commissioned.
He was an all-round sportsman, twice winning a blue at tennis, in 1868 and 1869, while at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was first in an international canoe race at the 1867 Pari Exhibition . He was Cambridge University swimming and fives champion and won the Eton College 350 yards race in 1864.
In 1875, he married Mary Alma Victoria Agnew (1854–1923), the daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet, and Lady and Lady Mary Noel, and they had seven children
Outside of sport he was president of the YWCA and the YMCA in England, a director of Barclays Bank and Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1907-1909. He was Honorary Colonel of the Tay Division Submarine Miners, a Volunteer unit of the Royal Engineers based in Dundee. He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1914. This gave him the Post Nominal Letters "KT" for Life.

Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, was born on July 8, 1814, in Rossie Priory, Perthshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish banker and Liberal politician. He rose to become managing partner of Ransom, Bouverie & Co., a banking firm. He continued in this role once he was elected to Parliament for Perth (1837-1839; 1852-1878). In 1847, Kinnaird represented the British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, in distributing relief to the Scottish poor. He was treasurer of the Highland Emigration Fund. In 1868, he was elected as President of the National Bible Society of Scotland. He was also a keen farmer and, in 1862, installed a Turkish bath for cattle at his Millhill Farm at Inchture, raising the temperature higher than usual and successfully using it in the treatment of distemper.

In 1843, he married Mary Jane Hoare, 10th Countess Kinnaird (1816–1888). He died on April 26, 1887, in London, England.

Samuel Kinns was born on November 14, 1825, in Colchester, Essex, England.

He was an educator, clergyman, Christian apologist, and author. He was educated at Colchester grammar school and then privately. In 1856, he founded a boys' school, The College, Highbury New Park. He remained its proprietor and principal until 1885. In 1859, he became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and received a Ph.D. from the University of Jena, Germany. In 1885, he was ordained deacon in the Church of England. Ordained priest in 1886, he became vicar of Holy Trinity, Minories, retiring in 1899. Kinns came to public notice in 1882 when he published "Moses and Geology", a detailed attempt to harmonize the creation account of Genesis with the latest scientific theories of discovered fossil remains. It evoked criticism from scientific and biblical experts and he gave lectures in his defense. Since 1878 he lectured in the British Museum on the support of biblical history by the Egyptian and Assyrian monuments. This became the subject of his second popular book, "Graven in the Rock" (1891).

He died on July 14, 1903, in London, England.