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.

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.

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

Samuel Spahr Laws was born on March 23, 1824, in Wheeling, West Virginia.

He was an American theologian, professor, businessman, and inventor. In 1848, he graduated as a class valedictorian from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He also studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1854, he became a professor at Westminster College, and in 1855, he was elected to the position of its president. At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, he was arrested and tried for treason after refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to the federal government. As a Virginia native, Laws was a southern sympathizer. He was jailed for 3 months in a St. Louis, Missouri prison and was released on the condition that he leave the U.S. He spent 1862 teaching in Paris, but in 1863, he returned to the U.S., settled in New York, and found a job as manager of New York City's Gold Exchange. As an amateur electrician, he invented the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the electric stock ticker tape machine. Laws served as president of the University of Missouri (1876-1889) and in 1889, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he continued to write books and manage his investments. In 1893, he accepted a teaching position in Columbia, South Carolina at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where he taught until his retirement in 1898. Following retirement from his teaching career, he lived in Richmond, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and finally Asheville, North Carolina.

In 1860, he married Anna Maria Broadwell (1825–1917). He died on January 9, 1921, in Asheville, North Carolina.