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James Alexander Corry was born at Millbank, Perth County, Ontario, on 29 November, 1899. He graduated in law from the University of Saskatchewan in 1923 with the highest standing in his year. Chosen Rhodes scholar for Saskatchewan, he took a B.C.L. at Oxford. In 1927, Dr. Corry returned to the University of Saskatchewan where he was a professor of law specializing in administrative law for nine years. In 1936, Dr. Corry was appointed Hardy Professor of Political Science at Queen's University where he served as Vice-Principal (1951-1961) and Principal (1961-1968). Dr. Corry wrote several books including Democratic Government and Politics which was first published in 1946 and has appeared in several editions. Dr. Corry was also a frequent advisor in government affairs. In 1944, he was made a member of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1968 became a Companion of the Order of Canada. He married Alice Madeline Russell in 1934 and they had two daughters. James Corry passed away on 26 December 1985.

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Y. Cosineau was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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Playwright John Coulter was born in 1888 in Belfast. He attended the School of Art and Technology in Belfast, and Manchester University. Upon returning to Ireland, he taught school in Belfast and Dublin until 1919. His early plays were produced in Belfast, Dublin, and London, and he moved to London in 1920, where he wrote for BBC radio. In 1924 he became editor of The Ulster Review, and in 1927, managing editor of John Middleton Murry’s journal The New Adelphi. In London, he met his Canadian wife, the poet, Olive Clare Primrose, and moved with her to Canada in 1936. In later years they divided their time between Ireland and Canada. His most famous work is his trilogy of plays about Louis Riel, published 1950-1960. He died on 1 December 1980.

George Gordon Coulton was born at King's Lynn in 1858. After some early schooling at Lynn and at the lycee at St.Omer (France) he was sent to Felsted school. In 1877 he went to St.Catherine's College, Cambridge as a scholar and went down with an aegrotat degree. After a brief period as a preparatory schoolmaster he read for holy orders, was ordained deacon in 1883 and priest in the following year.However after a short period he felt himself unable to continue and accepted posts is various public schools, with a happy interval of sixteen months in a private school in Heidelberg(Germany). Overwork while at Dulwich College brought on a breakdown in 1895. On his recovery he joined a friend who ran a coaching establishment at Eastbourne where for the next thirteen years he worked happily in conditions which gave him freedom to pursue his own studies. By this time he had determined to devote his energies to the serious study of medieval life and thought, and in particular to the working of the ecclesiastical system and he began to put out such books as From St.Francis to Dante (1906) and Chaucer and His England (1908) into which he poured some of the considerable knowledge he had acquired. His growing reputation was enhanced by the appointment as Birkbeck Lecturer in ecclesiastical history conferred on him by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1910, and as a result of this he decided to migrate to Cambridge to set up as a free-lance lecturer and coach the following year. In 1919 he was elected into what was then the sole university lectureship in English, and a little later in the same year he was made a Fellow of St.John's College. From then onwards, save for the years 1940-44 when he was a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto, his life was spent in Cambridge where he produced an unending flow of works and enjoyed a growing reputation both as a scholar and as an ever-ready adviser to those who sought his aid in matters historical. Coulton received the honorary degree of D.Litt. from Durham University (1920) and of LL.D. from Edinburgh (1931) and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1942). He was elected a Fellow of the British Association in 1929 and an Honorary Fellow of St.Catherine's College in 1922. He died at Cambridge in 1947.

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