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Dr. Sturton Mathwin "Sam" Davis, a Rear Admiral with the Royal Canadian Navy, Commandant of the National Defense College and Adjunct Professor at the Queen's University School of Public Administration, was born in Birkenhead, England on 18 April 1919. After graduating from the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, he served in the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors during the Second World War. He met his wife, Lois, on a troop ship in Halifax during the war (she had been serving with the American Red Cross), and they married in England. In 1948, they moved to Montreal.

At the outbreak of the Korean War, the Royal Canadian Navy recruited him, and he rose to become director general for ships. He later became Commandant of the National Defense College (at Fort Frontenac), a position he held until his retirement in 1974. That same year, he became Executive Director of the Queen's-Kingston Health Sciences Complex.

Through part-time studies at Queen's University, he had completed six Masters degrees in Engineering, Education and the Arts, as well as his doctorate, by 1979. He became an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Administration in 1985, introducing and coordinating the Health Policy Specialization component of that program. He served on numerous committees throughout his career, including the KFL&A Health Board, the Health Services Restructuring Commission and various committees within Kingston General Hospital.

Dr. Davis passed away on 28 October 1998.

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E.R. Davis was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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Margaret Davis (née Nickle) was born in 1863.

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Christopher Geoffrey Dawber (1943 October 30 - 2012 November 12) was a British-born Canadian accountant and painter known for his advocacy and practical support of artists, especially in tax-related matters. Born in London, England on October 30, 1943, during a wartime air raid, he immigrated to Canada with his working-class parents, who opposed the British class system. He began but did not complete teacher training in the 1960s, during which time he met and married poet Diane Dawber (née Flindall), with whom he had two sons.

Professionally, Dawber worked as an accountant for Nortel/Norcom and later founded a tax advisory service called Art in Taxes, aimed at helping artists navigate Revenue Canada requirements. A narcoleptic, he also painted dream-inspired landscapes and operated a home studio called the Bear and Jackal Studio. In later years, he assisted in securing Trillium funding for his wife’s Health Pursuits Research and Reading Group. Dawber died in Kingston, Ontario.

Diane Elizabeth Dawber, B.A., M.Ed. (Queen's University) was born in Belleville, ON. She is a poet, author, educator, researcher, and health advocate. She taught from 1965-1990, mostly at the elementary level but also as Consultant for the Arts K-12 for the Lennox-Adding School Board and as first Writing Adjunct Professor for the Artist in Community Program at Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kington. She was disabled with chronic illness in 1990.

Dawber has written two poetry collections for adults and five poetry collections for younger readers. She has given many school visits and workshops, an open-mic series in Kingston, and an anthology of Kingston poets came out of these works. Many poems have been anthologized. She won the Banff Centre Pilot Project in Writing, 1980 as well as the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario Writers Award, 1982, 1987 and 1991.

The study group she started for disabled teachers and nurses in 1996 met monthly for 20 years and morphed into an incorporated non-profit -- Health Pursuits Group later named Health Pursuits Reading and Research: MEND -- from 2010 until dissolution in 2022. Their research helped hundreds of people with difficult issues and won a large Ontario Trillium Award in 2012. Three non-fiction books came out of this work.

Selected works include "Cankerville"(Borealis, 1984), "Oatmeal Mittens" (Borealis,1987), "Writers on Writing" (Grolier, 1989), "My Underwear's Inside Out" (Quarry Press, 1991), "How Do You Wrestle a Goldfish?" (Borealis Press, 1997), "Lifting the Bull: Back Pain, Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness" (Quarry Press, 1999), and "The Nutrient Scent Test (Health Pursuits Reading and Research: MEND, 2017).

Diane has two sons with her first husband Christopher (1943-2012), two grandsons, and a whole step-family of daughter, and two granddaughters from her second husband Bernard Gates (1935-2023).