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Second Bishop of Cariboo.

George Anderson Wells was born in Salmon Cove, Newfoundland in 1877, and educated in Newfoundland, Quebec, and Manitoba. He was private from 1901 to 1902 with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles during the South African War, and in 1910, obtained a B.A. from the University of Manitoba. He was also ordained deacon that year, and was curate of St. Thomas' Church, Winnipeg. He would then be made curator of St. Mar's Church in Minnedosa, Manitoba, which he held from 1910 to 1914. He was ordained priest in 1911. He enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914, serving as Chaplain and Senior Chaplain, earning the Auxiliary Forces Officer's Decoration in 1916, and being appointed by his Gracious Majesty, King George V, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order St. Michael and St. George in 1917. After the war, he became rector of St. Luke's Church in Victoria, British Columbia for a year, then of St. Margaret's Church, Winnipeg, again for a year. In 1921, he became Warden of St. John's College, Winnipeg, and held that position until 1934. From 1923 to 1934, he was honourary clerical secretary of the Provincial Synod of Rupert's Land. In 1924, he received an M.A. from the University of Chicago, in Education and Hellenistic Greek. During this time, he also served as Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Rupert's Land. He was a member of the Council and Board of Studies of the University of Manitoba, and lectured there on Religious Education, as well as Practical Theology at St. John's College. From 1926 to 1934, he was a member of Manitoba's Provincial Board of Education, and was a trustree of the Manitoba Canteen Fund. In 1932, he received an honourary D.D. from St. John's College. He was consecrated Bishop of Cariboo in 1934, and remained in this position until 1941, when he resigned. He was Chaplain of the Fleet, Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, and in 1947, was Assistant Bishop of Toronto. He passed away in 1964.

Fourth Bishop of Toronto; Fourth Metropolitan of Ontario (and Archbishop of Toronto).

James Fielding Sweeny was born in London, England in 1857. He was educated in Montreal, and attended McGill University, obtaining a B.A. in 1878. After he was ordained deacon on 1880, he became incumbent of St. Luke's Church. He received an M.A. from McGill in 1881, and was ordained priest the same year. In 1882, he became rector of St. Philip's Church in Toronto, where he stayed until 1909. During this time, he received an M.A. (ad eundem), a B.D., and a D.D. (ad eundem) from the University of Trinity College, and was made a canon of the Cathedral of St. Alban the Martyr, Toronto. He also served as Archdeacon of Simcoe, Toronto from 1905 to 1907, then of York and Simcoe from 1907 to 1909. He was consecrated as Bishop of Toronto in 1909, and was elected Metropolitan of Ontario and Archbishop of Toronto in 1932. He resigned the See of Toronto that year, and passed away in 1940.

Sweeny received several honourary degrees over the course of his life, including a D.C.L. (1914) from the University of Bishop's College; a D.D. (1917) from Wycliffe College; a D.D. (1919) from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia; and an LL.D. (1921) from McGill University.

First Bishop of Brandon.

Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1875, Wilfred William Henry Thomas was educated in Burgh and Canterbury, and ordained deacon in 1898. He was then curate of Christ Church Cathedral, Hamilton until 1899, when he was ordained priest in Smith's Falls. He became rector of St. Luke's Church in Winnipeg until 1901, when he moved to Selkirk, Manitoba to be rector there. He remained in this post until 1916. That year, he became archdeacon of Eastern Manitoba. He was consecrated bishop of Brandon in 1924, which he held until his resignation in 1950. He passed away in 1953. Thomas received an honrourary D.D. from St. John's College, Winnipeg, in 1923.

Fourth Bishop of Moosonee; Sixth Metropolitan of Ontario.

John George Anderson was born in g Stoneywool, on the Isle of Harray, in the Orkeys, Scotland, in 1866. He was educated in St. Andrews, Manitoba, and would go on to attend St. John's College in Winnipeg, where he obtained a B.A. in 1886 and a B.D. in 1888. He was ordained deacon in 1889 in Portage La Prairie, then priest in 1890 in Winnipeg. He worked as a missionary for a year in Ontario from 1889 to 1890, then was incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Dynevor, Manitoba, from 1890 to 1909. He was consecrated Bishop of Moosonee in 1909, and was granted an honourary D.D. from St. John's College. In 1940, he was made Metropolitan of Ontario, and he passed away three years later, in 1943.

Fourth Bishop of Quebec.

James William Williams was born in Hants, England in 1825. He obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1851, and was ordained deacon in 1852. He served as curate first in High Wycombe, Bucks, and then in Huish Champflower, Somerset, and married Ann Maria Waldren in 1854. He became Assistant Master at Leamington College, Leamington that same year, and was ordained priest in 1855, staying in Leamington until 1857. He received an M.A. from Oxford in 1855 as well. From 1857 to 1863, he was Professor of Belles Lettres at the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec, and in 1863, he was consecrated Bishop of Quebec. He received an honourary D.D. from the University of Bishop's College. He passed away in 1892.

The Alumni Association of the University of King's College was founded in 1846 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at the request of the College's Board of Governors, to save the College from financial and administrative collapse. Subsequently incorporated in 1847 by Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature, it is the oldest alumni association in Canada.

Originally, the university was supported by grants from the British Crown (£1000 per year), the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (£500 per year), and the Province of Nova Scotia (£400 per year). These grants were withdrawn over the years, starting with the Crown's in 1833, then the SPG's in 1846, and the Province's in 1851. On May 28, 1846, the Board of Governors created the Alumni, forming it from a committee of various "alumni and friends" of King's College who were already actively engaged informally in soliciting patrons overseas.

The College, with no funds beyond tuition and other fees levied for the first time in its history, urged its graduates and associates to come to its rescue. The Alumni became a body corporate by An Act to Incorporate the Alumni of King's College, Windsor, S.N.S. 1847, c.53. This statute was revised during the following decades, e.g., An Act to amend the Act to Incorporate the Alumni of King's College, Windsor, S.N.S. 1882, c.64, which altered the requirements and implications of the annual subscription fee paid by members to the Association. Although heavily revised, the original statute is still in force. Revisions to the Nova Scotia statutes relating to the Board of Governors caused the number of Alumni seats on the Board of Governors to fluctuate as circumstances demanded.

After being organized into a cohesive and legally-authorized society, the Alumni Association sought not only to raise funds for the College, but also carried on the tasks of drafting and administering all College examinations; funding and planning building projects on campus; acquiring books, artifacts, instruments and apparatus for the College Library and Museum; and administering most of the scholarships and prizes offered to students at both King's College and the Collegiate School in Windsor. Foremost among Alumni activities, however, has long been the Annual Dinner, which has been held since 1846. In fact, the Association's first purchases related to the dinner: solid silver flatware adorned with ivory handles from an importer of luxury goods in Halifax, and 10 cases of champagne, in addition to further cases of liquor, all of which were shipped from Halifax in carriages. When not in use, the cutlery was stored in the largest available safety deposit box at a bank in Windsor. Other early assets were significant, such as 2,000 acres of wild land in Pictou County and houses in Halifax that the Alumni leased to tenants, and demonstrate the importance of the Alumni in King's 19th century affairs.

The Association's first members were largely "friends" of the College who were not graduates of King's, although Inglis' son, Bishop John Inglis - arguably the most distinguished graduate of King's first Encaenia - was instrumental in the formation of the Association and in soliciting its first funds for the College. Such was the importance of the Alumni's fund-raising that for the entire 19th century, the Association was the only body within the College, aside from the Governors, entitled to review King's books and accounts, courtesy statements of which the were sent to the Alumni annually. Likewise, the Association furnished the Board with its own financial statements.

More information on the Alumni Association can be found in the finding aid linked below, as well as at https://ukings.ca/alumni/.

Craven Langstroth Betts was born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1853, and lived in Staten Island, New York City, USA. He wrote and published poetry and poetry collections such as The Perfume Holder, A Garland of Sonnets, The Two Captains, and Tales of a Garrison Town New York. He died in 1941 in California, USA.

Molly Beresford was born in Dollar, Clarkmanshire, Scotland in 1885. She emigrated to Canada c. 1905, and attended Dalhousie University, then Columbia University. In 1924, she won second prize in the Dennis Verse competition for Dalhousie students with the poem "Our Little Life." She became head of the English department at the Provincial Normal College for Teachers in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1929. She passed away in 1960.