Douglas Grant Lochhead was born on March 25, 1922, in Guelph, Ontario.

He was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer, and educator. He graduated from McGill University (B.A., 1943) and was accepted into Medical school, but instead, he joined the Canadian Army. His experiences in the Canadian military formed the basis for his 1984 book, "The Panic Field: Prose Poems". He studied English at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1947) and Library Science at McGill University (B.L.S., 1951). Lochhead served as a librarian at Victoria College (now the University of Victoria, 1951-1952), Cornell University, New York (1953), Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia (1953-1960), York University, and the University of Toronto, where he was also a professor of English. He was the Director of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and its writer-in-residence until his retirement in 1990. He published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 1959 to 2009. In 1976, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1977, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. He was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry in 1981 and won the 2005 Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize and the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts.

In 1949, he married Jean St. Clair Beckwith (1924–1991). He died on March 15, 2011, in Sackville, New Brunswick.

William Lochhead was born in Perth, Ontario, and educated at McGill (B.A. 1885) and Cornell (M.A. 1895). After teaching in secondary schools and at the Ontario Collegiate Institute in Guelph, he joined the faculty at Macdonald College in 1905 as a Professor of entomology and zoology; his major research specialty was economic entomology. He retired as Emeritus Professor in 1925.

Arthur Rolland Boyd Lockhart was born in Richmond, Quebec. He was educated in Cowansville and graduated from McGill University with a B.A. before heading to Teacher's College, Columbia University, where he attained his M.A. He was principal at several high schools, including Cowansville, Buckingham, Huntington and Sherbrooke, before becoming the lecturer in elementary education and mathematics at the Macdonald College School for Teachers, McGill University. It was a post he would hold for 24 years until he retired in June, 1943. Lockhart held an Order of Scholastic Merit, second degree, and was an honorary life member of the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers.

James R. Lockhart was born in Bristol, New Brunswick. He enrolled at McGill University around 1912, but left off his studies at the outbreak of the First World War. He was a Private in the original unit that staffed the No. 3 Canadian General Hospital formed by McGill University in France. There, he met his first wife, Nursing Sister Anne Elliot from Wingham, Ontario, whom he married in 1922. Lockhart returned to McGill as a medical student in 1918 and graduated in 1921. During his early career, he practiced in Edmundston, NB, and Wingham, ON. In the 1930s, Lockhart established a medical practice in Carleton County, New Brunswick, where he participated in founding a private hospital in the village of Bath. He remarried twice and died 1980.

Charles Dealtry Locock was an English essayist, translator of Swedish poetry, and writer on chess and croquet. He also edited the poetry of Shelley.

Henry Cabot Lodge was born on May 12, 1850, in Beverly, Massachusetts.

He was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman. In 1872, he graduated from Harvard College. In 1874, he graduated from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1875, practising in Boston. After traveling through Europe, Lodge returned to Harvard, and in 1876, became one of the first recipients of a Ph.D. in history. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878. In 1881, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He served in the US Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy. His successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations and his reservations against that treaty influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.

In 1871, he married Anna Cabot Mills Lodge (1851–1915). He died on November 9, 1924, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was born on June 12, 1851, in Penkhull, Staffordshire, England.

He was a British physicist, educator, and author. In 1865, he left his schooling and entered his father's business (Oliver Lodge & Son) as an agent for B. Fayle & Co. selling Purbeck blue clay to the pottery manufacturers until 1873. He obtained a scholarship to the Royal College of Science, London (1872-1873). Lodge studied advanced mathematics at the University of London (B.Sc., 1875; PhD. in science, 1877). He lectured at Bedford College, London (1879-1880), and in 1881, he became Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the newly founded University College, Liverpool. In 1900, he was appointed the first principal of the new Birmingham University, remaining there until his retirement in 1919. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". His experiments led to the invention of practical wireless telegraphy or the radio. He served as President of the Liverpool Physical Society (1889-1893) and President of the British Association (1912–1913). He was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1898 and was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours. In 1898, he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the U.S Patent Office. In 1901, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. He believed the mind lives on after death and wrote 40 books on this and related subjects including "Raymond, or Life and Death" (1916), which gained popular interest, especially in the paranormal world.

In 1877, he married Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall (1851–1929). He died on August 22, 1940, in Lake, Wiltshire, England.