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John Strachan, Anglican clergyman, bishop, and educator, was born on 12 April 1778 at Aberdeen, Scotland, and died on 1 November 1867 in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Aberdeen Grammar School and King's College, Aberdeen, but turned to teaching after his father died in 1794. In the fall of 1796 Strachan returned to Aberdeen and graduated with an A.M. in March 1797. In 1799 Strachan accepted a teaching position in Upper Canada, arriving at Kingston on 31 December.

He began tutoring the children of prominent townspeople, including those of Richard Cartwright. In 1803 Bishop Jacob Mountain ordained Strachan as a deacon, and he became a
priest in 1804. He was given the mission at Cornwall, where he soon began taking students and set up a school. In 1807 he married Ann Wood McGill, the widow of Andrew McGill, a member of a prominent Montreal mercantile family, and they had nine children, James McGill, Elizabeth (died in infancy), George Cartwright, Elizabeth Mary, John, Alexander Wood, two daughters who died in infancy, and Agnes (who died at 16).

In 1811 Strachan received an honorary D.D. from the University of Aberdeen (in 1829 he received an LL.D. from St Andrews University). The same year, he advised James McGill of
Montreal to leave his extensive property to the cause of education; provisions were made that led to the founding of McGill University. Also in 1811, Strachan was offered the rectorship of York (Toronto) and the chaplaincy of the garrison and of the Legislative Council.

Strachan arrived at York in June 1812, just as the United States and Great Britain were going to war, and he played a pivotal role during two successful invasions by U.S. forces, negotiating the terms of capitulation. He was made an honorary member of the Executive Council in 1815 and then served as a regular member from 1817 to 1836 and as a member of the Legislative Council from 1820 to 1841. In 1822 Strachan, who was headmaster of the York Grammar School, became president of the newly established General Board of Education. Interested in establishing a university in Upper Canada, Strachan travelled to England in 1826 and in 1827, when he obtained a royal charter for the University of King's College. Strachan was appointed archdeacon of York in 1827.

In 1839 the Diocese of Quebec was split and Strachan became bishop of the new Diocese of Toronto. After many difficulties King's College was finally opened in 1843. However, the Church of England's influence on the new university had been reduced well in advance of the opening, and in 1842 Strachan, foreseeing future difficulties, had founded the Diocesan Theological Institution at Cobourg for the training of clergy. In 1848 he resigned as president of King's College, which was secularized and brought under government control the following year, becoming the University of Toronto on 1 January 1850. Strachan then set about to found an Anglican university and after another trip to England to raise funds and obtain a charter, the cornerstone of the University of Trinity College was laid on 30 April 1851. Classes began in January 1852. Strachan accepted the election of a coadjutor bishop in 1866. He died the following year.

The Trinity College Literary Institute was founded in 1854 with the amalgamation of the Debating Society and The Union. The student debating society of the Diocesan Theological Institute at Cobourg started sometime between 1842 and 1849. The first extant minutes from 20 April 1849 refer to the "yearly proceedings" being closed. This statement implies that it had existed at least since the Fall of 1848. The "Cobourg Star" dated 5 April 1848 reports the founding of a debating society in the town the previous evening. However, it is not mentioned as being associated with the Theological Institution. There is also some reason to believe that the Society was founded early in 1846, when the Diocesan Theological Institute was reorganized and expanded. By the summer of 1849, the Society had eighteen members and was holding weekly debates. A room was set aside for it at Cobourg, heated in winter by a wood stove. A student Union was formed shortly after the opening of Trinity College on Queen Street (1852) in Toronto.

The Trinity College Literary Institute is one of the student governments of Trinity College and has constitutional authority over specific traditional events held at the College by the students, most notably the regular debates. According to the constitution, "[t]he objects of the Institute shall be the fostering of cultural activities and the encouragement of public speaking."

According to the revised and amended "Constitution of the Trinity College Literary Institute" of 1974, all graduates and undergraduates of Trinity College are Active Members of the Trinity College Literary Institute, popularly known as The Lit. Honorary Members consist of Former Members of the Institute, the Provost, Professors, Lecturers and Fellows of Trinity College and anyone elected as such by a vote of two-thirds of the Members present at an Ordinary meeting. Life Members consist of former members of Trinity College who have paid a requisite fee.

The Lit enables several legislated committees or curatorial positions (some now obsolete), namely: The Opposition Committee, The Debates Committee, The Constitution Committee, The St. Hilda's Open House Committee, The Conversazione Committee, The Junior Common Room Curator, The Magazine Committee, The Rigby Room Curator, The TCLI Dinner Committee, The Art Committee, and The Music Committee. The Lit also awards the Trinity College Literary Pendants, the 4T5 Debating Trophy, the Literary Institute Trophy, and the
Ashley Awards.

The permanent officers are the Honorary President, the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, and the Treasurer. The Lit is governed by a Council consisting of a Prime Minister, Government House Leader, Clerk of the House, Keeper of the Mace, and two Councillors who are First Year students.

[Sources: "Constitution of the Trinity College Literary Institute" revised and amended 1974;
"The Reminiscences of Arthur Jarvis"; "A History of Trinity College Toronto 1852-1952"]

Beatrice Mary Scott Turner, educator and volunteer, was born about 1899 in Millbrook, Ontario. She was the daughter of Henry Allen Turner Jr (died 1951), a graduate of Trinity Medical College, and Alice Jane Scott. Turner received her early education in Millbrook and entered Trinity College in 1915. After graduating with a BA in 1919 she lived in Hamilton and taught at Kingsthorpe, a private girls’ school. She then returned to Millbrook to care for her mother and while there took an active interest in the community, especially her church and the local branch of the Red Cross. She eventually settled in Toronto and was active in the St Hilda’s College Alumnae Association and was Year Group Convenor for the years prior to 1922. She kept the Alumnae well informed of College activities either personally or by correspondence as well as keeping Convocation up to date with news of alumnae. In 1975 she was elected to the Corporation of Trinity College. She was involved in the Altar Guild and the Women’s Auxiliary at the Church of St Alban the Martyr and worked closely with St Andrew’s Japanese Congregation. She was made a life member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Diocese of Toronto and was an active member of the Diocesan Chancel Guild. At the time of her death she was a member of Christ Church, Deer Park. She died at Toronto on 12 August 1978.

Beatrice Mary Scott Turner, educator and volunteer, was born about 1899 in Millbrook, Ontario. She was the daughter of Henry Allen Turner Jr (died 1951), a graduate of Trinity Medical College, and Alice Jane Scott. Turner received her early education in Millbrook and entered Trinity College in 1915. After graduating with a BA in 1919 she lived in Hamilton and taught at Kingsthorpe, a private girls‟ school. She then returned to Millbrook to care for her mother and while there took an active interest in the community, especially her church and the local branch of the Red Cross. She eventually settled in Toronto and was active in the St Hilda‟s College Alumnae Association and was Year Group Convenor for the years prior to 1922. She kept the Alumnae well informed of College activities either personally or by correspondence as well as keeping Convocation up to date with news of alumnae. In 1975 she was elected to the Corporation of Trinity College. She was involved in the Altar Guild and the Women‟s Auxiliary at the Church of St Alban the Martyr and worked closely with St Andrew‟s Japanese Congregation. She was made a life member of the Women‟s Auxiliary of the Diocese of Toronto and was an active member of the Diocesan Chancel Guild. At the time of her death she was a member of Christ Church, Deer Park. She died at Toronto on 12 August 1978.

James Allan Walters, BA, MD, DPM (London, Eng.), FRCP (C), was born in Napanee, Ontario, on 21 July 1906, the son of Charles Augustus Walters and Stella Grace Wagar. He received his early schooling there and went to Queen’s University 1925-26 before attending Trinity College where he obtained his BA in 1930. He received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1933 and was on staff at the Ontario Hospital in Whitby in 1934. The ten years after graduation were spent in postgraduate training in neurology and psychiatry in Canada and England. He served as a major during the Second World War and in early 1943 he was appointed to #1 Canadian Neurological and Psychiatric Hospital in Basingstoke, England, and in 1944 to Northwest Europe.

In 1945 Walters returned to the University of Toronto as attending physician on the Neuropsychiatric Service at the Toronto General Hospital and later to the Psychiatric Division of the Wellesley Hospital. His chief interests were in Parkinson’s Disease and the new concept of psychogenic regional pain which he first described in 1959 and which became the major focus of his later work. Throughout these scientific studies, and for over thirty years of consulting practice, he was known for his sense of humour, kindness, and great understanding.

During his lifetime, Walters received a number of honours including Honorary Fellow at Trinity College in 1978, the Ontario Medical Association Glenn Sawyer Award in 1979, the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and an Academy of Medicine (Toronto) Honorary Life Membership award in 1975.

Walters was an active member of the Trinity College Friends of the Library, the Corporation of Trinity College and the year 3T0. In the 1950s he established the Kathleen and
Allan Walters Bursary Fund which, over the years, has provided scholarships and bursaries to many students in the Faculty of Arts.

In June 1936 Walters married Kathleen Jane Wark who died 12 December 1977. In 1980 he married Anne Hewitt Thompson (née Amys). He died on 26 February 1986 after a brief illness.

Three generations of Mortimers were graduates of Trinity College and went on to have distinguished careers in law in Los Angeles, California, and later in Toronto.

Charles White Mortimer became a lawyer in California in 1883 and was made British vice-consul at Los Angeles the same year. He was born in Adelaide, [Middlesex County] Ontario, on 20 April 1852, son of the Reverend Arthur Mortimer and Mary Frances White. He was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto’s Trinity College (BA 1875, MA 1887). He married Annie Marie Griffin and they had two sons, Charles Gordon (1890-1916) and Arthur Beresford (1889-1956), who both served in the First World War. He died in 1920.

Charles Gordon Mortimer, barrister-at-law and soldier, was born in 1890 in Los Angeles, California, and died on 21 October 1916 in action at Malta. He was educated at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and later at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. After completing his law studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, he was called to the bar on 22 May 1914. His plan to practice law in British Columbia was interrupted when war was declared. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery and is commemorated at the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.

Arthur Beresford Mortimer, lawyer and soldier, was born on 13 May 1889 in Los Angeles, but spent most of his life in Toronto. He attended Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, and Trinity College, obtaining a BA in 1911. He was at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1911 to 1913 and returned to Canada to attend Osgoode Hall Law School. He served in the First World War from 1915 to 1919 as a captain in the Canadian Artillery. On 28 December 1916 he married Flora MacIvor, and they had five children: Phoebe, Elizabeth, Charles Stewart, Grania, and Maureen. He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1919 and was created a King's Counsel in 1945. He practiced with Ross & Holmstead and Manning, Mortimer & Kennedy. He died in 1956.

Charles Stewart MacIvor Mortimer, lawyer, Anglican clergyman, and soldier, was born ca.1925. He saw service during the Second World War and then attended Trinity College, Toronto, obtaining his BA in 1948. He returned to Trinity College, to study in the Faculty of Divinity in the early 1990s and obtained a BD. He died on 18 September 2008 in Toronto.

Arthur Beresford Mortimer, lawyer and soldier, was born on 13 May 1889 in Los Angeles but spent most of his life in Toronto. He attended Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, and Trinity College, obtaining a BA in 1911. He was at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1911 to 1913 and returned to Canada to attend Osgoode Hall Law School. He served in the First World War from 1915 to 1919 as a captain in the Canadian Artillery. He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1919 and was created King's Counsel in 1945. He practised with Ross & Holmstead and Manning, Mortimer & Kennedy. On 28 December 1916 he married Flora MacIvor, and they had five children: Phoebe, Elizabeth, Charles Stewart, Grania, and Maureen. He died in 1956.

Charles Gordon Mortimer, barrister-at-law and soldier, was born in 1890 in Los Angeles and died on 21 October 1916 in action at Malta. He was educated at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and later at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. After completing his law studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, he was called to the bar on 22 May 1914. His plan to practise law in British Columbia was interrupted when war was declared. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery and is commemorated at the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.

Walter Bayne Geikie, doctor and educator, was born on 8 May 1830 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the son of Reverend Archibald Geikie, who brought his family to Canada in 1843. Geikie began to study medicine in 1849 with Dr. John Rolph in Toronto, Ontario, and was licensed by the Medical Board of Upper Canada (Ontario) in July 1851. After spending two years on a full post-graduate course at Jefferson College in Philadelphia, he took his MD and returned to Canada. He practised in Bond Head from 1851 until 1955 when he moved to Aurora in the County of York and set up a large and successful practice. He married Frances Miriam Woodhouse in February 1854. They had six children, two of whom died in infancy. The four who survived were Walter Woodhouse, Archibald James, Annie Laura, and Frances Ethel.

In October 1856, Dr. Rolph, Dean of the Victoria Medical Faculty at Victoria College in Cobourg until his death in 1970, asked Dr. Geikie to join the department as a professor. Geikie accepted and the two doctors made a partnership agreement in 1857. Dr. Geikie lectured on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. During these years, Dr. Geikie also taught Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, Principles and Practice of Surgery, and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, the latter at Toronto General Hospital. In 1867 Dr. Geikie returned to Great Britain to do post-graduate work and take the examinations of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Just before his death in 1870, Dr. Rolph resigned his position at Victoria Medical Faculty and Dr. Geikie resigned shortly thereafter. He then joined the Medical Faculty of Trinity University. By 1871 Trinity Medical Faculty, which had existed previously from 1850-56, was re-established as a department of Trinity University. Dr. Geikie became Dean in 1878 and continued in that capacity, as well as being on the consulting staff of the Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, until 1903. That year, after expressing his opposition to the College's amalgamation with the University of Toronto Medical Faculty, Dr. Geikie resigned. His health failed gradually over his final years and he died in Toronto on 12 January 1917. He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Robert Gordon Sutherland was an Anglican clergyman and scholar who received a BA from Trinity College in 1875 and an MA in 1877. Sutherland was born on 27 August 1845 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was educated at King Edward’s School in Birmingham, England, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge. He arrived in Canada in 1866 and entered Trinity College, Toronto, where he received a BA and an MA.

Sutherland was ordained deacon at St Stephen’s Church, Toronto, in 1870 and priest at All Saints, Whitby, in 1871.

Sutherland was curate of Christ Church and All Saints Church in Hamilton from 1873 to 1876, became rector of St Mark's in Hamilton in 1877, was made a canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Hamilton in 1885, and was a sub-dean of the Diocese of Niagara. He was elected delegate to the Provincial Synod in 1886. He lectured widely on Shakespeare and according to the Trinity University Review, in its April-May 1913 issue, a course of lectures on Shakespeare's heroines he delivered at Trinity College on the Saturdays in Lent had the distinction of being almost, if not quite, the best money-making course that has ever been given.

Sutherland married Jane Bennetts of St. Anstell, Cornwall, England, on 24 November 1869 at Bruce Mines, Ontario.
Robert Gordon Sutherland died on 27 November 1921 in Hamilton, Ontario.

Francis Wright Beare, educator and clergyman, was born 16 August 1902 in Toronto, Ontario and died in Toronto on 20 May 1986. The son of George and Ellen (Orr) Beare of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Beare was educated at Harbord and Oakwood Collegiate Institutes in Toronto. He received his BA in 1925 from University College, University of Toronto, with the Gold Medal in Classics. He studied at the Universities of Paris and Chicago. From 1931 to 1933 he studied (chiefly papyrology) as a foreign member of the Institute Francais d’Archéologie Orientale in Cairo. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1945.

He studied theology at Knox College, University of Toronto, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he was Assistant Minister, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,Toronto. He became an Anglican priest in 1947; from 1955 to 1965 he was Honorary Assistant, Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto.

In 1946 Beare became Professor of New Testament Studies at Trinity College, a position he held until his retirement in 1968. In 1980 he received his DD (honoris causa) from the College. He published extensively, including monographs on The Epistle to the Philippians (1959), The Earliest Records of Jesus (1962) and The Gospel According to Matthew (1981).

Professor Beare married Marion Gurd in 1932; after her death he married Marianne Pleus in 1973.

Christine Brown was a fourth year student in anthropology in 1996-97 at Trinity College Toronto.

Florence Elizabeth Westacott, was born in March 1877, apparently in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of George Westacott and Alice Sheen. She entered Trinity College in 1903 and graduated with a BA in 1906 and an MA in 1907. She published poems in the Westminster Magazine, the Globe, and in a small volume, The City Dweller and Other Poems (1935). She won the Victorian Order of Nurses contest for best play in 1934 for Someone Steps In. In 1935 she won the Lady Roddick prize for best sonnet at the Canadian Authors Association poetry competition in Montreal.

Florence Elizabeth Westacott died on 26 February 1966 in Toronto Ontario after a lengthy illness.

Richard Homan Harris (1829-1908) was born in Cork, Ireland. He taught for a time near Cork and also in Montreal and area, having relocated after his family had immigrated to Montreal. He next studied at Trinity College, Toronto, graduating with honours in 1860 from a double course in arts and theology. He was ordained deacon on 14 October 1860 by Bishop John Strachan. Harris chose the mission field, serving parishes in Orillia (Ont.) and region, as well as Omemee, and later Brighton and Weston. While working in Orillia, he met and married Collinette De Grassi, and they had two children. Widowed in May 1874, the following June he married Olivia Colter Cottingham, and they had three children. At the time of his death, he was residing in Toronto. He was buried in Orillia.

Collinette Virginia Beaumaris Harris (1872-1955), daughter of Richard Homan Harris and Collinette De Grassi, was one of the first graduates of the Church of England Deaconess Missionary Training House in Toronto. She served as a missionary in Egypt for 16 years. At the time of her death, she was a resident of Hamilton, Ont. She was buried in Orillia.

William McMurray, clergyman, was born 19 September 1810 in Portadown, Northern Ireland, the son of Bradshaw and Mary McMurray. The family moved in 1811 to York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario). At the age of eight William McMurray became a pupil of John Strachan. On completion of his studies at Strachan's school, he took in private pupils. In 1830 he commenced theological training under Strachan and served as a catechist in Mimico, Weston, Thornhill, and York Mills. In 1832 the Society for Converting and Civilizing the Indians and Propagating the Gospel among the Destitute Settlers in Upper Canada sent McMurray, not yet of canonical age for ordination, to act as catechist and lay reader at Sault Ste Marie. He was also appointed Indian agent by Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne.

In August 1833 McMurray was ordained Deacon by Bishop Charles James Stewart of Quebec at Frelighsburg [Quebec], Lower Canada. On his return to Sault Ste Marie McMurray was married for the first time, 26 September 1833, to Charlotte Johnston, daughter of trader John Johnston and granddaughter of an Ojibwa chief (she was also known as Onge-Buno- Quay). They had three sons and a daughter.

With Charlotte interpreting for her husband, McMurray was able to translate the catechism into Ojibwa. His rendition was printed in 1834 and his efforts created converts who spread the Gospel at Michipicoten. However, a rift developed between McMurray and Angus Bethune of the Hudson's Bay Company, which was also established at Michipicoten, when McMurray's advice to the natives was to the detriment of company business. He argued that their work manning the company boats interrupted their instruction, prevented them from working the land for crops, required them to work on Sundays, and paid less than they could earn by fishing.

In 1837 Sir Francis Bond Head succeeded Sir John Colborne as Lieutenant Governor and promptly stopped government interference with the native population of Sault Ste Marie. His family ill and his position compromised, McMurray resigned in 1838 and became curate to the ailing John Miller at Ancaster and Dundas. Strachan, now Bishop of the diocese of Toronto, ordained McMurray priest on 12 April 1840. McMurray became rector of Ancaster and Dundas in May of 1841.

In 1852 Trinity College opened in Toronto and McMurray was deputed to tour the United States and solicit funds for the new Anglican institution. His efforts were appreciated by the college and by donors. Columbia College in New York City awarded him an honorary DD. On this and subsequent trips the following year, McMurray succeeded in raising ten thousand dollars for Trinity College. Trinity bestowed an honorary LLD on him in 1857. McMurray was delegated by Trinity's council to tour England for building funds in 1864 and preached to a crowd of seven thousand in St. Paul's Cathedral (London) on the necessity of early religious education. He netted nearly four thousand pounds in donations.

In 1857 he had been made rector of Niagara-on-the-Lake and built an impressive rectory. However, the county seat was moved to St. Catharines shortly thereafter and the congregation was reduced by more than half. In 1867 the parish was forced to issue fifteen debentures to cover the debt of the rectory and McMurray took twelve of those himself. In this personal financial crisis he sought assistance from friends he had made in England. McMurray replaced his friend Thomas Brock Fuller as rural dean of Lincoln and Welland when Fuller replaced Alexander Neil Bethune as archdeacon of Niagara. McMurray had solicited votes in favour of Alexander Neil Bethune for the bishopric at Kingston. Fuller, elected to the See of Niagara, collated McMurray as archdeacon in 1875.

McMurray was married for the second time to Amelia Baxter on 4 November 1879. He died 19 May 1894 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Archibald Hope Young, educator and historian, was known as “Archie” to generations of Trinity College students. Born 6 February 1863 in Sarnia, Canada West, to Archibald and Annie (née Wilson) Young, he attended Sarnia Public, Private, and High Schools before going to Upper Canada College 1878-1882, where he was Head Boy in his final year. He matriculated at the University of Toronto in 1882 as a Prince of Wales Scholar and graduated with a BA in Modern Languages in 1887. He was also the president of the University of Toronto Modern Language Club 1886-1887. He received a BA ad eundem in 1892 from the University of Trinity College, and his MA in 1893. He also studied for a period of time at the University of Strasbourg. In 1916 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, by the University of King’s College.

Before coming to Trinity College, Young was the assistant master in Drummondville High School 1884-1885 and an assistant junior master in Upper Canada College 1887-1889. He was also a Modern Languages master 1887-1892 and an assistant housemaster 1889-1891. Young first became associated with Trinity College in 1892, when he was hired as a lecturer on Modern Languages and Philology. He held this position until 1900, when he was promoted to Professor of Modern Languages and Philology. In 1905, he became Professor of German, a post he held until his retirement in 1931, when he became Emeritus Professor of German. In 1911-1912 Young was Acting Professor of French, and in 1920-1921 he was a lecturer on Church History. He also served for one year as a University of Toronto lecturer on Italian 1909-1910. Upon his retirement he was appointed Research Fellow in Canadian History.

Young also held a number of administrative positions at Trinity College. He was the Librarian 1896-1902, the Clerk of Convocation 1901-1902 and 1903-1922, the Trinity College Registrar 1903-1914 and the Trinity University Registrar 1907-1914 (the two positions were combined in 1914), and the Dean of Residence 1914-1922. In 1904, upon the college’s federation with the University of Toronto, for which he was an advocate, Young was elected by the Trinity faculty to act as a representative on the university’s Senate. He was re-elected to this position until 1923. He also served as editor for the Trinity University Yearbook 1896-1914. Upon the creation of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire in 1913, Young began to act as its corresponding secretary, having attended the Congress the previous year. Young was the principal organizer of Trinity College’s jubilee celebrations in 1902. Naturally, he was also an ex officio and an elected member of both Corporation and Convocation.

In 1903 Young attended the International Congress of History Studies in Rome. In 1910 he was elected as president of the Modern Languages section of the Ontario Educational Association. In 1913 Young became a Non-Resident Life Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, and in 1919 he became a member of the St. Andrew’s Society. Young was the historiographer of the Diocese of Toronto starting in 1914 and also served for a time as president of the Ontario Historical Society. In 1920-1921 Young served as a member of the executive of the University of Toronto Alumni Association.

Always one to take an active role with students, Young served as chairman of the Trinity University Review Board of Management from 1914 until his death. He was named honorary president of the Trinity Glee Club in 1905, and in 1906 he founded the Deutscher Klatsch Club to assist students in attaining proficiency in conversational German, an organization which lasted until the outbreak of the First World War. During the war, he wrote to Trinity students and alumni who were involved in the war effort and organized care packages to be sent to them at Christmas. At the time of Young’s death, Provost Cosgrave wrote the following in the midsummer edition of the Trinity University Review: “[Graduates of Trinity College] will think most gratefully of [Young’s] influences upon them in the most critical and formative years of their lives and of his continued interest in them after they had left college. His greatest pleasure was to gather a group of graduates for tea in his room or in the Board Room and recall the days when they were students at Trinity. He wrote annually or oftener to hundreds of his former students expressing his interest in their concerns and telling them what was passing at Trinity College.”

Young valued his time at Upper Canada College, too, which he demonstrated by his permanent connection to it in the years after he left. For years he acted as a member of Corporation and the Board of Governors. He was also the corresponding secretary and treasurer for the Upper Canada College Old Boys Association. In 1917 he edited The Roll of Pupils of Upper Canada College Toronto: January 1830 to June 1916, and in 1923 he edited The War Book of Upper Canada College Toronto (1914-1919). He was also a member of the Governing Body of Trinity College School.

Young published widely on the history of Upper Canada and the Church of England in Canada, usually in the form newspaper and journal articles or reviews. His larger works included The Revd. John Stuart, D.D., U.E.L. of Kingston, U.C. and his Family: A Genealogical Study and he edited The Parish Register of Kingston, Upper Canada 1785-1811. In 1922, along with Professor W.A. Kirkwood, Young edited the War Memorial Volume of Trinity College, Toronto, which listed every member of the college who served in the First World War. Young never married and had no children, and lived for most of his life at Trinity College. Much of the latter half of Young’s life was spent writing biographies of John Strachan and John Stuart, but these were left incomplete when he died in Toronto 6 April 1935.

Willam Bertal Heeney, writer and Anglican clergyman, was born 18 February 1873 in Danford Lake, Quebec, and died in 1955. He was the son of Henry Heeney and Eleanor Jane Walsh. He was educated at Lachute Academy and then attended McGill University, where he received a BA in 1899. In 1900 he graduated from the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. He obtained a BD in 1915 from the University of Manitoba and a DD in 1929. He married Eva Marjorie Holland, daughter of R.H. Holland of Montreal, with whom he had a
son, Arnold, and a daughter.

In 1900 Heeney was ordained deacon. He was ordained priest in the following year and was rector of Christ Church, Belleville, from 1901 to 1905. Heeney moved to St George’s, Newport, Rhode Island, and lived there until 1908. He subsequently spent a short time in Barrie, Ontario, before becoming the chaplain of the 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers.

Heeney was the president of the Manitoba Children’s Aid Society, a member of the Executive Council General Synod, a member of the council of St. John’s College, and was made honorary canon of St. John’s Cathedral, Winnipeg. In addition, Heeney also served as the president of the Winnipeg Art Association, governor of the University of Manitoba, and held various administrative positions related to the Province of Rupert’s Land (notably, archivist and commissioner of the Diocese of Rupert’s Land). He was chairman of the Archive’s Committee of the General Synod, authored histories and fiction, and edited several church publications. He served as rector of St Luke’s Church, Winnipeg, from 1909 until his retirement in 1942, when he moved to Montreal. Heeney died in Ottawa on 12 April 1955.

John Ambery, academic, was born in April 1828 in Manchester, England, and died in 1878 in England. He attended the Manchester Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Upon graduation, he was appointed Professor of Classics in St. Andrew's College, Bradford, England. In 1856 John Ambery left England and was appointed Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Toronto. Two years later he moved to the Toronto Grammar School as classical master. He also held the position of Inspector of Grammar Schools and was a member of the Council of Education. Ambery returned to Trinity in 1863, holding the dual post of Professor of Classics and Dean of Residence until 1875, when he was compelled by ill health to resign.

In 1858 he married Henrietta Frederick Foster, youngest daughter of Colonel Colley Lyons Lucas Foster. They had four children: Ellen Marian, Charles Clayton, Edward Foster, and John Willis. In 1876 he was appointed to the Chair of Classics at Bishops College, Lennoxville, Quebec, In 1878 he returned to England.

[Source: Biographical sketch of John Ambery by his son, Edward Foster Ambery in F2067, Irving
H. Cameron fonds, Trinity College Archives.]

David Thorburn Symons, lawyer, was born on 9 September 1862 in Toronto, Upper Canada. He was the son of John Symons and Isabel Thorburn. He attended Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto, where he obtained a B.C.L. in 1886. He was called to the bar in 1884, was made King’s Counsel in 1908 and practised as a member of the firm of Kingstone, Symons & Kingstone. He was elected chairman of convocation of Trinity College in 1901. In 1931 Symons was elected Chancellor of the Diocese of Toronto and held that position until 1949. Symons also served as Vice-President of the Bishop Strachan School for a number of years.

He married Frances Rebecca Bond (b. 1874) in September 1901 and they had six children: David Martin, John Thorburn, Katharine Patricia, Beatrice Mary and Isabel Frances.Their youngest son, Douglas Bond Symons, died in 1943 while serving with the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

David Thorburn Symons died on 14 May, 1952 and Frances Rebecca Bond died on 13 October, 1954.

Edwin (“Eddie”) Hilyard Charleson, lawyer, was born 25 November 1904 in Ottawa, Ontario and died there on 5 July 1998. The son of Thomas Phillips Charleson and Florence Almon Smith, he attended the Ottawa Collegiate Institute and matriculated at Trinity College, Toronto, in 1922. He graduated in 1926 with a BA and stayed on as Graduate in Residence for one more year. He graduated from the University of Toronto Law School and was called to the bar in 1929. A member of Phi Delta Phi, the International Legal Honor Society, Charleson practiced in Ottawa.
He was a life time member of St. George's Anglican Church and served the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa as Diocesan Solicitor for many years. In the community of Ottawa-Carleton, he was active as Honorary Solicitor for numerous charitable organizations, including the Ottawa Boys' and Girls' Club and the Rotary Club of which he was past president. As a lifelong member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he was prominent in local and national executives and served as an early member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was predeceased by his wife, Roberta Lockhard Henderson, whom he married in 1948.

George Richard Wilson Knight, professor, writer, critic, actor, Shakespearean expert, was born on 19 October 1897 at Sutton, Surrey, England to George Knight and Caroline Louisa Jackson. Knight attended Dulwhich College, London, from 1904 to 1914. Upon graduation, he worked as a clerk at the Phoenix Insurance Company and then at Alliance Assurance Company until 1916. At the age of 19, Knight enlisted in the army as a motorcycle despatch rider and was deployed to Mesopotamia in1917 (present day Iraq). His battalion was not transferred back to England until 1920. On his return to civilian life he became a mathematics master, teaching at the preparatory schools Seaford House and St. Peter’s in Sussex between 1920 and 1922.

In January of 1922, Knight began his studies of English at St. Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. He earned a second class from the Honour School of English Language and Literature in the summer of 1923. In the autumn of the same year, he took up the position of a mathematics master at Hawtreys School in Kent where he remained until 1925. In 1926 Knight became the Senior English Master at Dean Close School in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His time at the school marks the beginning of his active involvement in theatre productions of Shakespearean plays and his publication of scholarly work as well as novels and short stories. The bulk of his writings pertain to the study of Shakespeare and spiritualism, with a few works dedicated to the study of Byron and Powys. He continued to teach at the school until his appointment as Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Trinity College, Toronto in 1931.

At Trinity College, Knight continued his involvement with the theatre, both directing and acting in numerous Shakespearean plays at Hart House Theatre. In 1934 he was appointed President of the Shakespearean Society in Toronto. In 1940, he returned to England where he gave recitals on
Shakespeare. In 1941, he was became a temporary war replacement at Stowe School, Buckingham, teaching mathematics, geography and English. In 1946 Knight was appointed as a Reader in English at the University of Leeds where he taught a two-year course on World Drama. He also was also a member of the Leeds University Union Theatre Group from 1949, participating in numerous productions of Shakespearean drama. In 1956, he was given a chair as a Professor of English at the University where he remained until his retirement in 1962.

After 1962, Knight continued to publish a variety of academic and biographical material, as well as tour universities in the UK, United States and Canada with guest lectures recitals. In 1965 he was given an Honorary Fellowship at St. Edmund College, Oxford and was awarded Honorary Degrees at the Universities of Sheffield and Exeter in 1966 and 1968 respectively. He lived in Exeter, Devon until his death on 20 March 1985.

Irving Heward Cameron was a Toronto physician who was born on 17 July 1855 to Chief Justice Sir Matthew Crooks Cameron and Charlotte Ross Wedd. Cameron attended Upper Canada College, Toronto, and then obtained an MB at the University of Toronto and the Toronto Medical School in 1874. Cameron practised medicine in Toronto and served as a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto and Chief Surgeon at Toronto General Hospital until his retirement in 1920. During the First World War Cameron served as a surgeon in the Duchess of Connaught’s Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Kent, England. Cameron was elected president of the Canadian Medical Association in 1898, served as a councillor at the Toronto Academy of Medicine, and a member of the consulting stuff at the Hospital for Sick Children. He was president of the Toronto University Alumni Association and of the Toronto Branch of the British Medical Association (and a senator of that association). He was also a member of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a founder and editor of the Canadian Journal of Medical Science and authored many articles.

In 1900 Cameron received an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in London and in 1905 received fellowship in the Royal College, Edinburgh, and a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, from the same institution.

In 1876 Cameron married Elizabeth Wright. They had a son, Matthew Crooks Cameron, and daughter, Mrs S. Temple Blackwood. Mrs Cameron died in 1902 and in 1920 Irving H. Cameron married Jessie Elizabeth Holland.

Irving Heward Cameron died in December 1933 in Toronto, Ontario.

Rivers Keith Hicks (RKH), university professor, was born in 1878 in Highbury Terrace, London, England, to Rivers Hicks (1854-1940) and Edith (Barcham) Hicks (1857-1904). The family moved soon after to Surrey. He was brother to Graham Barcham (b. 1879), Peter Rivers (b.1881), Ruth (b.1882), Edith (b.1883), Gilbert (b.1885), Louisa (b.1887), and John (b.1891).
RKH was educated at Cranleigh School, Surrey, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took the Mathematics tripos in 1901. He was assistant master at Routenburn School, Ayrshire, 1901, Cranleigh School, 1901-4, and Highgate School, London, 1904-7.

In 1907, RKH came to Canada and was an assistant master at Upper Canada College until 1911. He obtained an MA from Harvard in 1912. He was an instructor at Harvard and Dartmouth during that time. He returned to Canada to become an associate professor of French at Queen’s University, Kingston, in 1916. He left in 1925 to serve as special investigator for the Canadian Committee on Modern Languages and helped produce the two-volume report Modern Language Instruction in Canada (1928).

In 1927, RKH became Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity College, Toronto, and was named the first W.R. Brock Professor of French. He taught old French, philology, Renaissance literature, and eighteenth-century Literature. He became Registrar in 1943 and Dean of Arts in 1949, holding both positions until 1953. He wrote a number of textbooks, including The Reading Approach to French (1930), A New French Reader (1937), an abridged version of Prosper Mérimée’s Columba (1931), and an abridged version of Valentine Bonhoure’s Le Trésor de Châteauvieux (1935) as well as several standardized grammar tests incorporating the new approaches advocated in the committee’s report. He published an English translation of the first French play ever produced in Canada in 1608, Marc Lescarbot’s Théâtre de Neptune (1947). He also published an English translation of French-Canadian folk songs, Douze chansons canadiennes (1958). He had an interest in poetry and drama, serving as an honorary president of the Trinity College Dramatic Society, a member of the Board of Syndics of Hart House Theatre, and a director of the Crest Theatre. He died on 27 March 1964 in Toronto.

In 1911, RKH met Marjorie Ogilvy Edgar (1886-1951), daughter of Sir James David Edgar (1841-1899) and Matilda Ridout (1845-1910). They married in 1913. Marjorie was an amateur actress and writer, and an avid golfer and badminton player. She died on 21 May 1951 in Toronto. They had five children: John Edgar, Anthony Rivers, Douglas Barcham, Maud Jocelyn, and Michael Keith.

John Edgar Hicks, chartered accountant, was born circa 1914. He attended Lakefield Preparatory School and Upper Canada College and as a teenager worked as a caddy in Jasper, Alberta. He attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario until 1941. He worked for the Bank of Montreal, 1931-1932, and for Welch Anderson, Chartered Accountants, 1932-1939, before working for Tropical Oil Company in Colombia, 1939-1941. He developed an interest in aviation, joining the RCAF. He married Catherine (Kiki) Bethune. They had eleven children. He died in 1999 in Chemainus, British Columbia.

Anthony Rivers Hicks, naval officer, business executive, was born ca.1916. He attended Upper Canada College and entered Trinity College in 1933, graduating with a BA in 1938. He was in active service with the Royal Canadian Navy from August 1940. Later in life, he became an executive with the Sun Life Company and lived in Montreal. He married Jeanne Sargent and they had two children. He died in 1998 in Montreal.

Douglas Barcham Hicks, diplomat, was born in 1917. He attended University of Toronto Schools and the University of Toronto, graduating in 1939 with a BA. He was employed by the Department of External Affairs beginning in 1944 and served in important diplomatic posts in a number of African states in the 1970s, including high commissioner to Ghana, 1968-1971, and ambassador to Ethiopia, 1975-1978. He married Elizabeth Maud Stones and they had four children, three daughters and one son. He died in 1984 in Ottawa.

Maud Jocelyn Hicks, broadcaster, teacher, and writer, was born circa 1925. She attended Havergal College, 1942-1943, and then Trinity College, 1945-1946. She married John Smart and then John MacLean. She had three sons. She died in 2008 in Oakville.

Michael Keith Hicks, clergyman and civil servant, was born ca.1927. He attended University of Toronto Schools and then Trinity College, obtaining a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1950. He worked for the government of Canada and lives in Ottawa with his wife Barbara Findlay. They have three daughters.

John Edgar Hicks, chartered accountant, was born circa 1914. He attended Lakefield Preparatory School and Upper Canada College and as a teenager worked as a caddy in Jasper, Alberta. He attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario until 1941. He worked for the Bank of Montreal, 1931-1932, and for Welch Anderson, Chartered Accountants, 1932-1939, before working for Tropical Oil Company in Colombia, 1939-1941. He developed an interest in aviation, joining the RCAF. He married Catherine (Kiki) Bethune. They had eleven children. He died in 1999 in Chemainus, British Columbia.

Douglas Barcham Hicks, diplomat, was born in 1917. He attended University of Toronto Schools and the University of Toronto, graduating in 1939 with a BA. He was employed by the Department of External Affairs beginning in 1944 and served in important diplomatic posts in a number of African states in the 1970s, including high commissioner to Ghana, 1968-1971, and ambassador to Ethiopia, 1975-1978. He married Elizabeth Maud Stones and they had four children, three daughters and one son. He died in 1984 in Ottawa.

Rivers Keith Hicks (RKH), university professor, was born in 1878 in Highbury Terrace, London, England, to Rivers Hicks (1854-1940) and Edith (Barcham) Hicks (1857-1904). The family moved soon after to Surrey. He was brother to Graham Barcham (b. 1879), Peter Rivers (b.1881), Ruth (b.1882), Edith (b.1883), Gilbert (b.1885), Louisa (b.1887), and John (b.1891).

RKH was educated at Cranleigh School, Surrey, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took the Mathematics tripos in 1901. He was assistant master at Routenburn School, Ayrshire, 1901, Cranleigh School, 1901-4, and Highgate School, London, 1904-7.

In 1907, RKH came to Canada and was an assistant master at Upper Canada College until 1911. He obtained an MA from Harvard in 1912. He was an instructor at Harvard and Dartmouth during that time. He returned to Canada to become an associate professor of French at Queen’s University, Kingston, in 1916. He left in 1925 to serve as special investigator for the Canadian Committee on Modern Languages and helped produce the two-volume report Modern Language Instruction in Canada (1928).

In 1927, RKH became Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity College, Toronto, and was named the first W.R. Brock Professor of French. He taught old French, philology, Renaissance literature, and eighteenth-century Literature. He became Registrar in 1943 and Dean of Arts in 1949, holding both positions until 1953. He wrote a number of textbooks, including The Reading Approach to French (1930), A New French Reader (1937), an abridged version of Prosper Mérimée’s Columba (1931), and an abridged version of Valentine Bonhoure’s Le Trésor de Châteauvieux (1935) as well as several standardized grammar tests incorporating the new approaches advocated in the committee’s report. He published an English translation of the first French play ever produced in Canada in 1608, Marc Lescarbot’s Théâtre de Neptune (1947). He also published an English translation of French-Canadian folk songs, Douze chansons canadiennes (1958). He had an interest in poetry and drama, serving as an honorary president of the Trinity College Dramatic Society, a member of the Board of Syndics of Hart House Theatre, and a director of the Crest Theatre. He died on 27 March 1964 in Toronto.

In 1911, RKH met Marjorie Ogilvy Edgar (1886-1951), daughter of Sir James David Edgar (1841-1899) and Matilda Ridout (1845-1910). They married in 1913. Marjorie was an amateur actress and writer, and an avid golfer and badminton player. She died on 21 May 1951 in Toronto. They had five children: John Edgar, Anthony Rivers, Douglas Barcham, Maud Jocelyn, and Michael Keith.

Michael Keith Hicks, clergyman and civil servant, was born ca.1927. He attended University of Toronto Schools and then Trinity College, obtaining a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1950. He worked for the government of Canada and lives in Ottawa with his wife Barbara Findlay. They have three daughters.

Maud Jocelyn Hicks, broadcaster, teacher, and writer, was born circa 1925. She attended Havergal College, 1942-1943, and then Trinity College, 1945-1946. She married John Smart and then John MacLean. She had three sons. She died in 2008 in Oakville.

Charles Rudolph Feilding, clergyman, educator, and administrator, was born in Whitford, North Wales, on 16 January 1902 to John Basil Feilding (1868-1942) and Emily Margaret (née Tod) Feilding (d. 1955). After living in North Wales and then in London, England, Feilding emigrated with his family to Canada in 1912, living initially in St. Williams in Norfolk County, Ontario. He was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and at Barrie Collegiate before attending McGill University and King‟s College, Halifax, graduating with a BA in 1925. Feilding was ordained deacon and priest in the Episcopal Church of Scotland in 1929. He then studied at the General Theological Seminary in New York as a fellow and tutor, studying the New Testament under Dr. B.S. Easton and beginning a lifelong interest in moral and pastoral theology and training. He also began clinical training and therapy by working closely with psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. He graduated in 1935 with a Doctor of Sacred Theology (STD). In the same year, Feilding became the rector of St. Mary‟s Episcopal Church on Staten Island. He married Ann Truslow, daughter of Ernest Truslow of Southport, Connecticut, on 20 August 1935.

In 1940 Feilding returned to Canada as Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Director of Field Education at Trinity College. In 1943 he became a founder of the Toronto Graduate School of Theological Studies, the forerunner of the Toronto School of Theology (1970). In 1946 he became Trinity College‟s first Dean of the Faculty of Divinity. In this position, Feilding instituted a variety of changes to the teaching of theology, including the introduction of a tutorial system, fewer lectures and more seminars, and an emphasis on training through field work.
In 1957 Feilding co-founded the Toronto Institute for Pastoral Training with Dr. J.A. MacFarlane. Upon his resignation as Dean of Divinity in 1961, Feilding took a sabbatical. As a “visiting fellow” at Yale University, he researched trends in church ministry education. This work would result in his 1966 publication, Education for Ministry. Feilding returned to Trinity College to teach in 1964. Around this time he became the secretary for the Commission on Marriage and Related Matters of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada and would play a significant role in the drafting of a new Canon on Marriage (approved in 1965, confirmed in 1967). Along with H.R.S. Ryan, Feilding produced two commentaries on the new Canon, On Marriage in the Church (1965) and Marriage in Church and State (1965). Feilding would continue to serve on the Subcommittee on Marriage and Related Matters through the 1970s.

In 1965, Feilding formed the Canadian Council for Supervised Pastoral Education (now the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education) with the Reverend A. MacLachlan. The council provided accreditation for training programs. Feilding retired from teaching in 1970 and was appointed Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Trinity College. At this time he became involved with the Canadian Urban Training Programme for Christian Service. In 1972, he directed a study on the role of women in the Parish of St. Thomas in Toronto. Feilding was an early spokesman for the ordination of women in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Charles and Ann Feilding had two children: Goodith Mary Feilding, born on 26 August 1936, and Geoffrey Truslow Feilding, born on 21 April 1939. In 1956 Goodith married the Rev. William Brian Danford Heeney (d. 1983); Geoffrey married Martha Anne Corrigan in 1966. Charles Feilding died on 10 September 1978 in Toronto. Ann Fielding died on 3 October 1997.

Francis Herbert Cosgrave, educator and administrator, was born on 11 July 1880 in Kilsallaghan, County Dublin, Ireland and died on 31 January 1971 at Central Park Lodge, Thorncliffe Park, Toronto. He was the son of Frederick Cosgrave and Martha Rogers Bullen. He attended Corrig School, Kingstown Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin where he achieved a B.A. in 1902, a B.D. in 1907, and an M.A. in 1917. He was ordained deacon in 1904 and priest in 1905 at Durham, England.

His first post was as Curate of Christ Church in West Hartlepool, near Durham England from 1904-1907. Cosgrave was appointed lecturer in Hebrew at Trinity College, Toronto in 1907, Professor in 1909, and Dean of Divinity in 1916. He took on work as an assistant at St. Clements church in Toronto from 1923-1926. He was elected as Provost of Trinity College on 21 July 1926, installed on 15 January 1927, and served until 1945. He was a lecturer at Huron College in London Ontario from 1945-1948. He was honorary canon of Toronto from 1959 until his death.

Cosgrave married Annie Leila Metcalf on 4 September 1926 in Grimsby, Ontario. She died in 1966.

George William Allan, administrator and politician, was born 9 January 1822 in Little York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario). He was the son of William Allan and Leah Tyreer Gamble. Allan was educated privately and at Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario. He spent a portion of 1837, the year William Lyon Mackenzie headed a rebellion in Upper Canada, as a private in the "Bank Rifle Corps." He then finished his studies at Upper Canada College and decided to pursue law, passing his law examinations in 1839. He was articled to the office of Gamble & Boulton in Toronto. He was called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1846. Before entering into practice, he travelled abroad, through Europe, parts of Africa, Syria and the Middle East, Turkey and Greece.

Allan was deeply involved in the political life of the city of Toronto, serving as mayor in 1855. He presided over a number of institutions including the Royal Canadian Institute, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, the Historical Society, the Ontario Society of Artists, and the Horticultural Society of Toronto. From 1877 to 1901 Allan served as Chancellor of Trinity College and from 1867 to 1901 he was a Senator (Speaker 1888-1891), sitting as a Conservative. He was a great collector of art and historical objects and in 1848 bought the entire collection of 100 paintings that Paul Kane had painted on his travels throughout the west. In 1858 Allan donated a portion of land in Toronto to the Toronto Horticultural Society which became the Allan Gardens.

Allan married Louisa Robinson, daughter of Sir John Beverley Robinson, then Chief Justice of Upper Canada, on 16 April 1846. Louisa Allan died in 1852 while the couple was in Rome. In 1857 Allan married Adelaide Harriet Schreiber at St. James' Church, Piccadilly, England. They had seven children, Maude, George William, Mary Adelaide, Charles S., Arthur Campbell, Frederick Gamble Bingham, and Audrey Elizabeth Schreiber. George William Allan died on 24 July, 1901 in Toronto.

Willard Gurdon Oxtoby was a scholar of religion and a professor at Trinity College from 1971 until 1999. Oxtoby was born 29 July 1933 in Kentfield, California to Gurdon C. Ox-toby and Miriam Burrell Oxtoby. Willard Oxtoby graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University in 1955. He then attended Princeton University where he re-ceived an M.A. and a Ph.D. in 1962. From 1958 to 1960 he worked in Jerusalem as part of the team that studied the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 1963 he was ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church.

Oxtoby’s first teaching appointment was in the Faculty of Divinity at McGill University where he taught a course on Jerusalem, among others, from 1960 to 1964. Oxtoby then undertook postdoctoral studies in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Comparative Reli-gion at Harvard where he also held a teaching fellowship. From 1966 to 1971 Oxtoby was an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale and from 1971 until his retire-ment in 1999 he was a professor of the study of religion at Trinity College, University of Toronto. While at the University of Toronto Oxtoby founded the Centre for Religious Studies in the School of Graduate Studies and served as its director from 1976 to 1981. Oxtoby also served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Religion at Princeton University from 1971 to 1984 and served as President of the Canadian In-stitute for Advanced Islamic Research from 1984 to 1992. In 1964 Oxtoby was elected to the American Society for the Study of Religion; he served as the Society’s Vice President from 1984 to 1987 and President from 1990 to 1993.

Willard Oxtoby’s publications include The Meaning of Other Faiths (1983), Moral Enlighten-ment: Leibniz and Wolff on China (1992) (with Julia Ching), World Religions: Western Traditions (1996) and World Religions: Eastern Traditions (1996). Oxtoby also edited the American Academy of Religion’s Monograph Series AAR Studies in Religion (1969-1970) and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Pluralism.

In 1958 Willard Oxtoby married Layla Jurji, and they had two children, David (b. 1960) and Susan (b. 1963). Layla Jurji died in 1980 and in 1981 Oxtoby married Julia Ching, a scholar of Chinese philosophy and religion and a professor at the University of Toronto. Julia Ching died on 26 October 2001 and Oxtoby died on 6 March 2003 in Toronto

Rupert Schieder, Professor of English Literature, was born on 8 September 1915, in Fort Frances, Ontario, the son of Francis Joseph and Alice Mary Schieder. His early education was in Atitokan and Port Arthur, after which he attended Trinity College, graduating in 1938. He taught in Princeton, Ontario, and Port Arthur, Ontario, before serving in the RCAF (Radar) from 1942 to 1945. After the war he earned his MA in English from the University of Toronto in 1947. From 1951 to 1948 he taught at the Canadian Services College Royal Roads in Victoria, where he became Head of Department. During this time he completed his doctorate in English at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1954. In 1958 he returned to Trinity College, where he remained until his retirement in 1981, having achieved the rank of full Professor in 1973. After his retirement he taught literary seminars for Trinity graduates through the Office of Convocation.

Professor Schieder’s interest in music led to twenty-five years as head of the Music Committee at Hart House. He was a longstanding member of the Arts and Letters Club, a committee volunteer for the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and an inveterate traveler, visiting former students and friends around the world. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College in 1993. He served on the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Library, and was President from 1985 to 1991. In 1995 he was given an Arbor Award in recognition of his services to Trinity College and Hart House. He died in Toronto on 3 September 2008.

Roger Mervyn Savory, officer and professor, was born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England on January 27, 1925. He was educated at the King’s School in Peterborough, and graduated with a B.A from The Queen’s College, Oxford in 1950. Savory was subsequently hired as a lecturer at The School of Oriental and African Studies and obtained a PhD from The SOAS in 1958. Shortly after his arrival at SOAS, Savory met and married Kathleen Mary Plummer (d. 2010). They were married for 59 years and had two children, Jill Elizabeth (b. 1953) and Julian Roger (b. 1956).

In 1943, Savory was awarded a State Scholarship offered by the War Office and the Ministry of Information for a 12 month intensive course in Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In April 1944, he enlisted in the Intelligence Corps and in March 1945 he was posted to Iran as a 2nd Lieutenant and member of PAIFORCE (Persia and Iraq Force). Savory was attached to the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E), a branch of British military intelligence, and worked for the British Foreign Office. In April 1945 he was transferred to the British Foreign Office and in June of 1946, he was posted to Rasht, the capital of the Caspian province of Gilan, as Acting Consul. From May to September 1947, he was posted as Acting British Consul, Isfahan and, in January 1949, he was appointed to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers in the Intelligence Corps with substantive rank of Lieutenant. Savory was demobilized in September, 1947.

After completing his PhD at The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Savory was invited to Toronto in 1960 by Professor G. M. Wickens to be a Visiting Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Savory was offered a permanent job in the newly established University Department of Islamic Studies which was created in 1961. In 1968, Savory succeeded Michael Wickens as Chairman of the Department, a post he held until 1973. In 1972, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1976, he was cross-appointed to Trinity College in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (the new name of the department) and in Religious Studies and, in 1982, was appointed a Fellow of the College. The same year, he was elected a member of the Governing Council of the University of Toronto, and served until 1987 and as an Executive of the Council from 1983-1987.

Savory retired in 1987 and was appointed Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College. In 2003, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Trinity College. In 2011, he was presented with a Festschrift, edited by one of his students, Dr. Colin Mitchell, who is currently a professor in the Department of History at Dalhousie University. Prof. Savory lives in Toronto.

Percival Hector Gordon was a Canadian lawyer and a justice of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. Gordon was born on 27 January 1884 in Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan (then North-West Territories), to Leslie Gordon and Clara Elizabeth Hector. In 1898 he lost his right arm in a hunting accident. In 1905 Gordon obtained a BA degree from Trinity College and in 1906 received an MA from the University of Toronto. In 1908 Gordon was called to the Saskatchewan bar and in 1927 was appointed King’s Counsel. Gordon also served as the chancellor of the Anglican diocese of Qu’Appelle from 1921 to 1942 and as the chairman of the Canadian Red Cross. Gordon was a representative of the federal government on the Saskatchewan Relief Commission in 1930-1931 and a representative of the provincial government before the Dysart Commission on natural resources in 1933-1934. From 1935 until his retirement in 1961 Gordon served on the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. In 1943 he was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of Manitoba. In 1968 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Gordon married Harriett Sarah Kennedy, daughter of John Robertson Kennedy and Mary Elgie, on 7 October 1908 in Peel, Ontario. They had one child, Helen Jessie Gordon, born on 1 September 1911. Percival Hector Gordon died on 6 April 1975 in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Beverley Jones was a lawyer who was born 11 June 1839 in Brockville, Ontario, one of three children of Sidney Jones and Susan Ford. Jones was educated at Brockville Grammar School and Upper Canada College before graduating with a BA in 1860 and an MA in 1877, both from Trinity College. He was called to the bar in 1864 and began working in the office of his cousins, Jones Brothers. In 1961 he enlisted in the volunteers at Brockville during the Trent Excitement and served in the Queen’s Own Rifles during the Fenian Raid of 1866.

In 1864 Jones joined the Canada Permanent Mortgage Co. as a solicitor and remained in an advisory role there until his death. In 1873 Jones became the bursar of Bishop Strachan
School, a private school for girls in Toronto. Jones served as a delegate to the diocesan synod for nearly 50 years as a representative of the congregation of St. George’s Church. He also served as secretary of the Canada Law Amendment Association, and was one of the founders of the Industrial Schools Association, serving as treasurer for 30 years. Jones was
committed to providing homes for children and established industrial schools for boys and girls, founding the Victoria and Alexandra schools in Mimico and East Toronto. In Jones 1888 drafted the bill known as the Juvenile Offenders Act which provided for a separate trial for juveniles and allowed children under age fourteen to be committed to certain institutions or charitable societies to be taken care of and educated.

Beverley Jones died in Toronto, Ontario in 1934, at age 95.

Beverley Jones was a lawyer who was born 11 June 1839 in Brockville, Ontario, one of three children of Sidney Jones and Susan Ford. Jones was educated at Brockville Grammar School and Upper Canada College before graduating with a BA from Trinity College in 1860 and an MA from Trinity College in 1877. He was called to the bar (Osgoode) in 1864 and began working in the office of his cousins, Jones Brothers. In 1961 he enlisted in the volunteers at Brockville during the Trent Excitement and served in the Queen’s Own Rifles during the Fenian Raid of 1866.

In 1864 Jones joined the Canada Permanent Mortgage Co. as a solicitor and remained in an advisory role there until his death. In 1873 Jones became the bursar of Bishop Strachan School, a private school for girls in Toronto. Jones served as a delegate to the diocesan synod for nearly 50 years as a representative of the congregation of St. George’s Church, served as secretary of the Canada Law Amendment Association, and was one of the founders of the Industrial Schools Association, serving as treasurer for 30 years. Jones was committed to providing homes for children and established industrial schools for boys and girls, founding the Victoria and Alexandra schools in Mimico and East Toronto. In Jones 1888 drafted the bill known as the Juvenile Offenders Act which provided for a separate trial for juveniles and allowed children under age fourteen to be committed to certain institutions or charitable societies to be taken care of and educated. Beverley Jones died in Toronto, Ontario in 1934, at age 95.

Dorothy Jane Metcalf Deane, editor, was born on 26 December 1913 to Harry M. Metcalf and Gwendolyn Metcalf. She attended Grimsby High School before entering Trinity College in September 1931. She graduated with a BA in 1934. An active volunteer in the Trinity community, Dorothy Deane served as a member of Trinity Corporation and Trinity’s Governing Council. In recognition of her service Deane was presented with the University of Toronto Arbor Award in 1995 and the Long-Service Award in 1996 for her volunteer work with St Hilda’s.

She married Edward Franklin Borbridge on 14 October 1939 at St Andrew’s Church in Grimsby, Ontario. Edward Borbridge was born in 1913 and received a BA from Trinity College in 1935 and a law degree from Osgoode Hall in 1937. Borbridge practised law in Peterborough and Toronto until his death in Spring Point, Alberta, in 1942.

After the death of Edward Franklin Borbridge, Dorothy Jane Metcalf married Roger Eric Deane, a geology professor at the University of Toronto. In October 1965 Roger Deane drowned near Tobermory, Ontario, while on a research trip.

Dorothy Jane Deane died on 23 December 2008 in Toronto, Ontario.

Derwyn Randolph Grier Owen, Anglican clergyman and administrator, was born on 16 May 1914, the son of Derwyn Owen and Nora Grier Jellet. He attended Ridley College in St. Catharine's from 1928 to 1932 and then Trinity College, where he took honours in Classics, graduating with a B.A. and the Governor General's Medal in 1936. He studied next at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1936-1938, and the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1940-1941. He was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1942 and completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto the same year, while teaching at Trinity College. In 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian Army and served as chaplain in the Westminster Regiment, 5th Division, on campaigns in Italy and Holland. He returned to Canada in 1946 and resumed his post as lecturer and head of the Department of Religious Knowledge at Trinity. In 1957 he was elected Provost of Trinity College and served in that capacity until 1971 when he resigned to continue teaching. He served as Professor of Religious Studies until his retirement in 1979. Owen published several books, including Scientism, Man and Religion (1952), Body and Soul (1956), Social Thought and Anglican Theology (1980), and Trinity College: Past, Present and Future (1964).

He married Anne Kathleen Armour in 1942, and they had three children: Laurie, David, and Timothy. He died on 23 April 1997 in Toronto, Ontario.

Reginald Sidney Kingsley Seeley, administrator, educator, theologian, and Provost of Trinity College, was born in 1908 in Herefordshire, England. He was the son of the Venerable George Henry Seeley, sometime Archdeacon of Rangoon. He attended Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge. He took both parts of a Classical Tripos then studied theology at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1930 and an M.A. in 1934.

He was made deacon in 1932 and priest in 1933 in Coventry Cathedral, and he served for two years as curate of Rugby Parish Church. In 1934 he returned to Cambridge as Chaplain of St. John's College. He assumed additional duties as organizing secretary of the Cambridge Mission to Delhi (1935), and was also examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol. He came to Canada in 1938 as Professor of Exegetical Theology at St. John's College, Winnipeg, and as canon of St. John's Cathedral in that city. In 1941 he was appointed Warden of St. John's College, and in 1943 became rector of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, and Dean of the Diocese of Ontario.

Seeley was appointed Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College, Toronto, in 1945. In 1952, Seeley oversaw the centenary celebration of Trinity College. His tenure also saw the construction of the chapel, which was consecrated in 1955, and a new residence house at the north-east side of the quadrangle. He was the liaison officer for the Colonial Service of Great Britain, vice-president of the Institute of Public Affairs, and the first president of the Classical Association of Canada. Seeley addressed the public through many radio broadcasts and was the author of The Sign of the Cross: A Meditation on the Place of the Cross in Human Living and The Function of the University.

Seeley married Marjory Peters on 30 July 1955 in St. John's Cathedral, Winnipeg. On 3 Aug 1957 he died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Trenton, Ontario.

Thornton Frank Summerhayes was an Anglican priest who studied at Trinity College. Born in 1874 to William Frank Summerhayes and Thirza Toogood at Wimbledon, Surrey, England, in 1888 he and his family moved to Toronto. From 1888 to 1899 he worked at various law offices in Toronto, starting as an office boy and eventually progressing to law student.

In 1899, Summerhayes enrolled at Trinity College as a student of Theology. While there, he represented Trinity in the Inter-College Debating Union, and served on the editorial board for the Trinity University Review. He graduated in 1904, with an Honours Licentiate in Theology, and also as awarded the Osler Special Reading Prize. Afterwards, he was ordained a priest and began serving at St. Peter’s Church in Cobourg. During his long career he served many churches, including the parish at Gore’s Landing, St. Matthew’s Church in Toronto, Church of the Good Shepherd in Mount Dennis, St. Monica’s Church in Toronto, and St. Saviour’s Church in East Toronto.

From 1919 until 1944 Summerhayes was secretary for the Toronto Diocesan Council for Social Service. He was also acting General Secretary of the Christian Social Council of Canada. A prolific writer, he wrote for the Trinity Review, later producing reports for an International Joint Committee on Palestine in Washington DC, and for a Joint Parliamentary Committee in Ottawa.

Summerhayes married Alice Jupp in 1900 and they had a son, Douglas Thornton Summerhayes. Alice passed away in 1910 and in 1916 he married Ella Beatrice Farr, who died in 1942. Thornton Summerhayes passed away in 1960, and is buried in Toronto.

Frances Isobel Lawson (née Garbutt) was born on 30 April 1910 in Percy Township, Ontario. Lawson worked at Trinity College from the 1960s to the 1980s in the Office of Convocation. For much of that period she was responsible for maintaining records on graduates of the College and compiling the personal notices in the “Convocation Bulletin” (later Trinity magazine) as well as organizing such events as the Theological Education Sunday. She came to know clerical graduates of the College in particular very well.

Frances Isobel Garbutt married Arthur Wendell Phillips Lawson on 17 June 1947 in Toronto, Ontario. He died in 1952 in Ohio. Frances Isobel Lawson died on 17 August 1991 in Toronto.

George Whitaker, Anglican clergyman and educator, was born 9 October 1811 at the Manor Farm, Bratton, Wiltshire, England. He was from a large Baptist family, the eighth child of Philip Whitaker, a farmer, and Anne (née Andrews). His siblings included Alfred (b. 1799), Joshua (b. 1801), Edward (b. 1802), Philip (b. 1803), Emma (b. 1805), Anne (b. 1807), John (b. 1810), and Edwin Eugene (b. 1814).

He attended Frome Grammar School and Charterhouse School and matriculated at Queens’ College, Cambridge 4 July 1829 as a pensioner. He graduated in 1833 with a first class Classical Tripos, with honours in classics and mathematics. He was made a Classical Fellow in 1834, a lecturer in classics in 1835, and received an M.A. in 1836. He became a member of the Church of England, and was baptised at Bratton Parish Church 11 October 1832. He was ordained deacon on 4 June 1837 and priest on 27 May 1838, both instances by the Bishop of Ely.

He left Queens’ College in 1840 upon his appointment as vicar to the college living of Oakington, Cambridgeshire. He married Arundel Charlotte Burton, the daughter of the Rev. Richard Burton, a Baptist missionary, at the Parish Church of St. Saviour, Bath, Somerset 22 October 1844. They had at least eight children, of which George Herbert (b. 1847), Bertha (b.1848), Ernest (b. 1849), Emma (b. 1850), Agnes (b. 1853), Margaret Ann (b. 1856), and Edith Dora (b. 1861) were known to have survived.

In 1851 Whitaker was selected to become the first Provost and Professor of Divinity at the University of Trinity College, Toronto by a panel of four eminent clergymen working at the behest of Bishop John Strachan, known as the Trinity College Committee in London. He arrived in Toronto in November of that year, and his appointment was officially confirmed on 8 December.

Whitaker became involved in the ongoing controversy between the high and low factions of the Anglican Church when his theological teachings were attacked in 1860 by Benjamin Cronyn, Bishop of Huron, on the grounds that they were anti-Protestant. While the accusations were rebuffed, Whitaker and Trinity College remained central in the various factional disputes throughout the 1860s and 1870s.

Whitaker was a candidate for coadjutor bishop to John Strachan in September 1866, but withdrew his name, leading to Alexander Neil Bethune’s election. On 1 October 1875, Bethune appointed Whitaker archdeacon of York. He was a candidate for coadjutor bishop to Bethune in February 1878, but Bethune was ultimately forced to call off the election due to Evangelical lay opposition. In February 1879, upon the death of Bethune, Whitaker was again an unsuccessful candidate in the election to the Bishopric of Toronto. At the beginning of Michaelmas Term of that same year, he announced that he had been offered by the Bishop of Salisbury the rectorship of the parish of Newton Toney, Wiltshire, a living in the gift of his alma mater, Queen’s College. Whitaker left Toronto for England 30 May 1881, and the Rev. Charles William Edmund Body took up the Provostship in October.

George Whitaker died suddenly 27 August 1882 at Devany House, The Close, Salisbury at the age of 70. He is buried at the Parish Church of St. Andrew in Newton Toney, Wiltshire.

[Sources: Headon, C. F. "Whitaker, George" in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 11 (Toronto, 1982), Reed, T. A. (ed.) A History of the University of Trinity College, Toronto, 1852-1952 (Toronto, 1952), Reeves, M. E. “George Whitaker (1811-1882): A Forgotten Native of Bratton” in Wiltshire Archaeological, Magazine, 72/73 (Devizes, 1980): 135-139, Westfall, W. The Founding Moment: Church, Society, and the Construction of Trinity College (Montreal & Kingston, 2002)]

Ethel Blanche Ridley, nurse, was born in 1872 in Belleville, Ontario to father Charles Neville Ridley [1825?-1892?], physician, and to mother Elizabeth Ridley [b. 1838]. She entered St. Hilda’s College, University of Trinity College, Toronto, in 1891 and graduated with a B.A. in 1895. She enrolled as a nurse-in-training in New York. By 1897 she was a registered nurse and in 1898 and 1899 she served as a nurse with the United States Army in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

In 1900 she joined the staff of the “Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled” (later New York Orthopaedic Hospital) and served until the outbreak of the First World War. Ridley returned to Canada in August 1914 and on 16 September was appointed nursing sister in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (C.A.M.C.). She was stationed at Valcartier, Quebec, for basic training and was promoted to Matron of the No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital of the C.A.M.C.

On 22 September 1914 she sailed on the “Franconia” to England. From 1914 to 1919 she served at a number of military hospitals. She was stationed at Le Touquet, France from 7 November 1914 to 20 November 1915, and at hospitals in England, including Granville Canadian Special Hospital at Ramsgate and Buxton between 1916 and 1917. She was subsequently stationed at the Canadian Head Quarters of the Lines of Communication in France in 1918. Ridley was made Matron, Principal Matron, and Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian military nursing staff and received several decorations, including the Star (1914), the Royal Red Cross (1916). She was mentioned in dispatches and appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire in 1918, receiving the C.B.E. in 1919 at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace. She retired from military service later that year.

In 1920, Ridley returned to New York City and rejoined the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, serving as Directress of Nurses from 1924-1942. In 1944 Ridley returned to Canada and settled in Gananoque, Ontario, where she died in 1949.

[Source: George E. Mills, nephew of Ethel Blanche Ridley; A. H. Young, W. A. Kirkwood, eds. The War Memorial Volume of Trinity College, Toronto (Toronto: Printers Guild, 1922); David B. Levine, “The Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled: William Bradley Coley, Third Surgeon-in- Chief, 1925-1933,” HSS Journal 4.1 (2008), 1–9.]

Cyril Frederick Washington was a student at Trinity College from 1920-1924/5. Washington was born in Canterbury, England on February 2nd 1902, the only child of Edith Margaret and Henry Robert Washington. The family immigrated to Canada in 1903 and settled in Russell, Ontario, near Ottawa. Washington attended Ottawa CI for high school, and entered Trinity College at age 18.

Throughout his life, Washington showed a passion for classics. As an undergraduate, he studied languages and classics, although he was also heavily involved in College life. He was head of his year (1920-1923), and served as President of the Trinity Literary Institute in its 1923-1924 year. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in 1924, and was Valedictorian of the University. In 1926, he attended the Ontario College of Education. He married Jean Frances Malcolm (1905-1973), a teacher from Stratford, on July 1st, 1932.

Washington served as principal of Walkerton District High School from 1935 – 1962, where he also taught classics. As principal, he lead the school through restructuring of school districts, and oversaw the transition to a larger, modern building in order to accommodate the new generation of baby boomers in the early 1950s.

Washington was president of the Ontario Classics Association from 1952-1954, the first secondary school educator to do so. The OCA promotes the teaching of classic civilizations and languages in Ontario, Coincidentally the OCA shares a long history with Trinity College, starting from its inaugural 1944 meeting held in a Trinity boardroom.

Washington passed away in 1964, and was buried in the Walkerton Cemetery, Bruce County, Ontario.

Elizabeth Mildred Boyes, was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1919, the daughter of Mrs. C.M. Johnston. After attending Regina Central Collegiate Institute, she entered Trinity College, Toronto, in 1937, residing in St. Hilda’s College. Graduating in 1941 with a BA, she married George Harold Boyes. Mildred Boyes died 16 July 1987 in Toronto, Ontario. [Source:Trinity Convocation Bulletin, Summer 1987]

George Grey Falle, professor of English literature, was born on 12 May 1915 in Montreal to Georges Hoyles Falle and Janet Alice Pettigrew. He attended McGill University where he obtained a BA in 1935 and an MA in 1937. He then studied late 17th century literature with a particular emphasis on Dryden, receiving his PhD in 1952. The title of his doctoral thesis was ‘The Place of Letters in English Thought and Criticism between Hobbes and Locke: A Study in Critical Commentary.’ From 1941 to 1945 Falle served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Falle was a lecturer at McGill University, 1945 to1948, a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin, 1948 to 1951, and instructor and assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, 1951 to 1954. He became assistant professor at Trinity College 1954, associate professor in 1961 and professor in 1968.

Falle was secretary of the Combined Departments of English, University of Toronto, 1964 to 1966 and chairman 1968 to 1970. He was a visiting fellow at King's College, Cambridge, in 1966, and chairman of the Music Committee at Hart House at the University of Toronto from 1966 to 1970. At the University of Toronto he was on the Library Committee; MA Committee; Programme Committee; Woodhouse Prize Committee in 1974, and a member of Senate. At Trinity College he was an active member of the Executive Committee of Corporation, sitting on its Policy and Planning Committee and the General Committee of Faculty Council and Academic Standards. He was Chairman of the Board of Stewards, and the Study Group. He served as President of the Johnson Society, Central Region. In honour of Falle a scholarship in undergraduate English was set up in his name at Trinity College.

Falle published Three Restoration Comedies (1964), several articles and essays and was assistant editor of Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Madame d'Arblay, Vols. V and VI.

George Grey Falle died on 11 December 1984 in Toronto, Ontario.

On 5 June 1897 a group of alumnae decided that there were now enough graduates of St Hilda’s College (namely 22) to form an alumnae association. The first official meeting of the St Hilda’s College Alumnae Association (SHCAA) took place on 17 November 1897. The objectives of the association set out at that meeting were to assist (1) in placing the College on a self-supporting basis, (2) in acquiring a suitable building for the College, (3) in providing a scholarship fund, (4) in fostering among graduates a spirit of interest in College affairs. It was also agreed that women who had been students at the College would be eligible to be associate members of the association. The annual fee was to be 50 cents (June 1898) but it was also urged that members donate one book a year to the library and in 1900 the association agreed to furnish one room in the new building which opened in 1938. The association’s constitution was revised many times over the years as it developed more and more activities. The association was represented in various other organizations and was active in raising funds through its own social activities (eg teas, lectures, art shows) and through support for the general activities of Trinity College. During the war the association was deeply involved in support of the St. Hilda’s School (Whitby England) which had been evacuated to Canada in 1940. In 1921 the St Hilda’s College Council was created to deal with of the work of the executive committee but in 1965 that council was dissolved and its activities reverted to the SHCAA (see series 2). In June 1981 it was proposed that the St Hilda’s Board of Trustees (whose function was to deal with monies specifically linked to St Hilda’s) be more formally constituted. The SHCAA remained active during subsequent decades but as of 2016 it is dormant.

The Divinity 150 Project (Div 150) was started in 1987 by co-directors William Westfall and Thomas McIntire. Its goal was to research the biography, education, and professional careers of the students who had studied divinity at the Diocesan Theological Institute at Cobourg and at Trinity College to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Trinity College’s Faculty of Divinity in 1992. The project concluded in 1993 with a colloquium on the theological and social formation of the clergy in Canada.

A number of research assistants working on the project. Meredith Hill was responsible for studying divinity students from 1914 to 1960 and female students prior to 1969, while Robert Black researched students from 1842, when the Diocesan Theological Institute at Cobourg was founded, to 1914. Wendy Fletcher conducted oral history interviews of living graduates with help from the Reverend John Bailey in Vancouver. William Westfall worked on a history of the Diocesan Theological Institute and collected essays on the history of the Anglican clergy to publish with this work. A number of students also helped with the input of data into a database that allowed for the analysis of the ecclesiastical, regional, social, and economic profile of Trinity Divinity students.

The project used a number of sources for its research. Current students and living graduates were asked to complete a biographical research form and a survey of attitudes, influences, and assessments, and Wendy Fletcher conducted oral history interviews of select graduates. Research on deceased students used college admission, matriculation, and degree records, Crockford’s Clerical Dictionary, local and provincial directories, and various archival sources. The project was funded by Trinity College, the Anglican Foundation, the Cassidy Fund, the University of Toronto Department of History, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York University, the Lilly Endowment, and the Divinity Associates.

The Divinity 150 Project also organized a number of celebratory events to mark the sesquicentennial. Events included a Service of Recollection and Thanksgiving for 150 Years of Theological Education, held in Trinity College Chapel on 23 April 1992, a march to Old Trinity, a trip to Cobourg, and an exhibit of artefacts and documents. The project also sold commemorative mugs to alumni.

In the autumn of 1946, Trinity College’s Arts and Letters Club became the umbrella organization that coordinated the coeducational recreational activities of several of the College's academic departments. Academic staff and students participated in meetings held by various groups loosely affiliated with a specific faculty. These included meetings of those in the community who were interested in Fine Art, Music, Literature or Philosophy as well as other arts endeavours.
The meetings of the Philosophy discussion group were spearheaded by Dr George Edison and were from the beginning very popular. Because of this unexpected popularity, Edison encouraged students to form a Philosophical Society. Thus began the Brett Club in September 1946, named after George Sidney Brett, Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a professor active in the Trinity community from 1919 until his death. He died suddenly at his home on 27 October 1944, remembered fondly by many students still attending the College.
Once formed, however, attendance in the Brett Club seemed to decline almost immediately, possibly because of the requirement that the Club was "restricted to those students genuinely interested in Philosophy" (Review, August 1947). The Brett Club failed to form a Constitution in the 1940s. It became known by the college community at large as "a certain species of cult to which new participants are admitted only upon invitation" (Review, Summer 1949).
The Arts and Letters Club included philosophical discussions that were more accessible. During the 1967-1968 academic session, the Brett Club revived through the efforts of its new President, Derek Allen (BA 1968, Head of Arts 1967-1968 and a Rhodes Scholar). It survived in a variety of forms over the intervening years, holding open and closed meetings about sophisticated philosophical questions and concepts.