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.

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.

Abner Kingman, Jr., was born in Boston in 1856. He came to Montreal in 1875 to join the firm of Robert C. Adams and Company. He was made partner in 1879; in 1882, the name changed to Kingman and Company, and in 1901 it was acquired by the Dominion Coal Company. Kingman served as director of many large companies. During WWI, he lived in London, England, where he worked full-time as the Executive Chairman for the Canadian Young Men's Christian Association Overseas. He died in Montreal in 1930.

Luci King-Edwards (née Friesen) is a writer, editor, and former bookstore owner.

She graduated from McGill University (M.A., 1975). With her husband Adrian King-Edwards, she co-founded and co-owned the Montreal used books bookstore The Word from 1973 to 2009. Since 2011, she has been a member of the Print Co-op at Iota Press in Sebastopol, California.