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Robina Alison Lizars was born on October 10, 1853 in Stratford, Ontario, to Daniel Home and Esther (née Longworth) Lizars. Sometimes known as Ruby, Robina married widower Robert Smith, a Stratford lawyer, on July 25, 1876. Robina and Robert had two sons:
Home Robert Smith (July 1877 - Feb. 1935)
Bruce Longworth Smith (b. Aug. 1879)
Robert accepted an appointment as a Judge in Manitoba in July 1884; Robina and her sons, as well as Robert's three children by his late wife, remained in Stratford so that the children could continue their schooling there. When Robert died suddenly in January 1885, Robina and her two sons moved back to the Lizars family home.

Robina's younger sister, Kathleen MacFarlane Lizars, was born on March 12, 1857. Educated in Toronto and in Scotland, Kathleen briefly worked as a personal secretary for British Columbia Premier John Robson. In 1892, after three years in British Columbia, Kathleen moved back to the family home in Stratford.

In 1896, the sisters published their first of three successful books, In the Days of the Canada Company. This first work was a biography of the founder of the Huron Tract, John Galt, and a history of the Canada Company in the area. Written more for entertainment than as a factual historical narrative, the book was based, in part, on researched anecdotes and reminiscences. In 1897, the Lizars published a history of the 1837 rebellions, Humours of '37. Their third work, Committed to His Charge: a Canadian Chronicle, was published in 1900. Committed to His Charge was written as a romantic novel, but also served as a social commentary.

Kathleen continued writing independently, publishing The Valley of the Humber in 1913. Robina was an accomplished musician and well-known music teacher, at one time serving on the executive of the Ontario Music Teachers' Association. Robina Lizars Smith died in 1918, and Kathleen Lizars died in 1931.

Morley Thomas was born in 1919 in Talbotville.

Morley (and future wife Clara) attended Western from 1937 to 1941. Morley majored in math and physics and went on to become a Meteorologist for the Government of Canada. Morley played on the football team and is one 1 of 2 remaining members of the 1939 Western Championship football team still living. Morley played rugby/football from 1937 to 1941, and was also on the Western Hockey team in 1941.

Dr. Vesey Agmondisham Brown was a physician and amateur artist. Brown was born in Limerick, Ireland on 3 June 1824, the third of six children, to John-Southwell Brown and Margaret-Anne Vesey. Brown attended the Medical School of Trinity College at the University of Dublin in 1844 before completing training at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, England in October, 1848. He was appointed to the British Army as Assistant Surgeon in 1849 and was attached to the reserve battalion of the Twenty-third Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), which was ordered to London, Ontario in May, 1850. He became licensed to practise “physic, surgery and midwifery” in the Province of Canada a year later.

When the Twenty-third Regiment moved to Toronto in May of 1852, Brown remained in London and served as the physician in charge of enrolled pensioners. By 1856 he was also serving as physician to the Great Western Railway Company. He married Mary Jane Massingberd, daughter of Anglican Reverend Hompesch (sometimes Edward) Massingberd in that same year. They resided on Kent Street. For the majority of his medical career he worked as a general practitioner and surgeon out of the family's London home. He was also a proficient amateur watercolour artist painting landscapes mainly in the London and Port Stanley area. Brown died in London on September 4, 1895 at the age of 71.

Albert Augustus Phipps was born on 1 July 1847. He was the son of Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps and Margaret Anne Bathurst. He died on 16 January 1875 at age 27. He served in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, in London, Ontario, among other places ca. 1867. See http://www.thepeerage.com/p8624.htm. He was the Prince Consort Albert's godchild. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_godchildren_of_members_of_the_British_Royal_Family#Albert.2C_Prince_Consort.

Born 1918 in Woodstock. Served in RCN 1941-45. Elected MP for Oxford in 1953, re-elected in 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1972. Died in 1973 at Woodstock.

Alan Noon worked as a specialist in photography at the University of Western Ontario between 1962 and 2012. In addition, he worked on a number of historical photograph collections such as the Hines and Henry Studio Collections. During the latter part of his service, he created, and contributed content to, The Way We Were series in the Western News.

Christopher John Willis was a professor of Chemistry at the University of Western Ontario. Born in 1934, he received his MA and PhD from Cambridge University in England. He joined the Chemistry Department at Western in 1961 and specialized in inorganic chemistry. He served as Associate Chair of the Department from 1994 to 1997 and briefly as Acting Chair in 1995. Willis retired in 1999, at which time he was named Professor Emeritus.

Daughter of Ina Matilda (Bucke) and Edwin Seaborn.

Born July 2, 1867. Died 1920. Son of Thomas Frazer Kingsmill and Anne (Ardagh) (Burris) Kingsmill. Henry Ardagh Kingsmill married Inez Ethelyn Smith (1870-1956), an American singer, in 1902. They had two children: Sidney Ardagh and Eleanor.

He graduated with a medical degree from Western University in 1895, and served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. His name is on a campus plaque honouring Western University's soldiers of WWI. He died during a soldier's flu epidemic in 1920 at the age of 53.