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First Bishop of Ontario; Fourth Metropolitan of All Canada.

John Travers Lewis was born in Cork, Ireland in 1825. He obtained B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1847, and was ordained deacon in 1848 in Cambridge. He was ordained priest in 1849, and was curate of Newton Butler in County Fermanah, Ireland until 1850. He was an S.P.G. Missionary in West Hawkesbury, Ontario until 1854, when he became the Rector of Brockville. He was consecrated Bishop of Ontario in 1862. He was active in getting the British Association for the Advancement of Science to meet in Montreal and helped to found the Women's Auxiliary in 1885. He married Ada Maria Leigh in 1889, and was elected President of the House of Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, at Montreal, thus becoming Metropolitan of Canada and Archbishop of Ontario. He resigned this office in 1900, and passed away aboard the S.S. Menominee en route to England in 1901.

He held multiple honourary degrees from multiple colleges, including: LL.D. (1856), M.A., B.D., D.D. (all 1862) Trinity College, Dublin; LL.D. (1857), University of Trinity College, Toronto; D.C.L. (1858), D.D. (1895) University of Bishop's College, Quebec; and D.D. (1901), Oxford University, England.

Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1892, Kenneth Leslie was an author, journalist, poet, and political activist. He attended Dalhousie University for his B.A., and the University of Nebraska for his M.A. He also studied at Harvard. He was a political activist in the 1930s and 40s, establishing an anti-Fascist journal called the Protestant Digest (later called The Protestant). He also circulated a comic book, called The Challenger, that challenged Fascism. From 1934 onward, he published poetry collections such as Windward Rock, Lowland's Low, Such a Din!, and By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems, for which he received the Governor-General's Award in 1938. The Protestant was discontinued in 1953, but Leslie continued to publish periodicals, such as One, New Christian, Man, and New Man.

Leslie's first wife was Elizabeth Moir, with whom he had four children. He and his family travelled to Paris before settling in New York City in the late 1920s. After he and Moir divorced, he married Marjorie Finley Hewitt in 1934. Leslie and Hewitt were married for twelve years, when Hewitt filed for divorce c. 1946. Leslie then married his secretary, Cathy, who eventually left him for his nephew, a man closer to her own age. In 1960, Leslie suffered a stroke. Despite this, he drove to California to comfort the widow of an old friend, Nora Steenerson Totten. He and Totten married soon after, and lived the rest of their lives together. Leslie passed away in 1974.

John Leblanc was a journalist with the Canadian Press. Born in Cape Breton in 1911, he began working for the Sydney Post in 1929. Sometime before 1943, he accepted a post with the Canadian Press, which took him to Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. In 1967, he was transferred to CP's London Bureau, and returned to Toronto in 1972. He retired in 1976, returning to Sydney and writing editorials and columns in the Cape Breton Post. He passed away in 1986 in Cape Breton.

Fifth Bishop of Qu' Appelle.

Edwin Hubert Knowles was born in Ceylon in 1874, and educated in England and Canada. When he came to Canada in 1891, he was a homesteader in Northwest Territories, then a teacher in Saskatchewan until 1903. He was ordained deacon in 1905, then priest in 1906, and served as curate, then incumbent, at Buffalo Lake, Saskatchewan until 1909. He received and LL.B. from the University of Manitoba that year, and became the incumbent of Kamsack, Saskatchewan, as well as the Chaplain of Kamsack's Masonic Lodge. He held these positions until 1911, when he became the secretary of the Diocese of Qu'Appelle. He also served the role of Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Qu'Appelle until 1935, as well as Canon of Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Qu'Appelle, 1914 - 1918; Chaplain to the RCMP of Regina, 1917; Archdeacon of Qu'Appelle, 1918 - 1935; Treasurer of the Diocese of Qu'Appelle, Regina, 1919 - 1921; and Vice-President of the Archaeology Society of Regina. In 1935, he was consecrated Bishop of Qu'Appelle, a post held until 1950, when he resigned. He received honourary degrees from St. Chad's College, Regina (D.D., 1931), and St. John's College (D.D., 1935). He passed away in 1962.

The King's University League was formed in 1924 to do the preliminary work of the 1926 Building Endowment Fund Campaign, and to help pay for the running expenses of the College while the campaign was being set up. At the end of 1924, official management of the KUL was given to President Moore·by the Board. The 1925 Executive consisted of KUL President A. Handfield Whitman, Vice President Major J.P. Edwards, Treasurer George E. Mahon and Secretary R. L. Nixon. The KUL appears in the Calendars from 1924-25 until 1931-1932.

Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton; Second Bishop of Fredericton.

Hollingworth Tully Kingdon was born in London, England in 1835. He gained a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1858, and was ordained deacon the following year in Buckingham. He was curate of Sturminster-Marshall, Dorset until 1863, and was ordained priest in 1860. He obtained a B.A. from Cambridge in 1861. In 1863, he became curate of Devizes, Wiltshire, until he took on the role of Vice-Principal at Sarum Theological College in 1864, a position he held until 1869. He was then curate of St. Andrew's Church in London until 1878, when he became Vicar of Good Easter, Essex. In 1881, he was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton, and was granted an honourary D.D. from Cambridge. He received two more honourary D.D.'s, one from the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, in 1885, and one from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1890. He succeeded to the See of Fredericton in 1892, and received an honourary D.C.L. in 1893. He passed away in 1907 in Fredericton.

Coadjutor Bishop of Newfoundland; Third Bishop of Newfoundland (with Bermuda); Coadjutor Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness; Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness; Primus of Scotland.

James Butter Knill Kelly was born in Standish, Lancashire in 1832. He obtained a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1854, and an M.A. in 1858. In 1855, he was ordained deacon, then priest in 1856. He was curate of Abington, England from 1855 to 1856, then became Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Sodor and Man until 1864. He was the Registrar of the Diocese, as well as Vicar of Kirkmichael, Isle of Man, from 1860 to 1864. He then moved to Newfoundland and became Incumbent of St. John's, until he was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop in 1867. He travelled throughout the diocese with the Bishop of Newfoundland, Edward Feild, including Bermuda, which was part of it at the time. He found travel difficult, and resolved that when he succeeded Bishop Feild, he would also have a Coadjutor to help him with his duties. Unfortunately, when he did become Bishop in 1876, he was unable to find anyone to fill the role, and resigned a year later. He moved back to England and became Vicar of St. Chad's in Kirkby, until 1880. From 1879 to 1884, he was Commissary for the Bishop of Chester, and in 1880, became the Archdeacon of Macclesfield, England. In 1884, he became the Commissary for the Bishop of Salisbury, until he was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness in 1885. He also held the position of Provost at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Inverness, and he succeeded to the See of Moray, Ross, and Caithness in 1886. In 1901, he became the Primus of Scotland. He resigned in 1904, and lived in retirement until 1907, when he passed away in Inverness.