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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.