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William Newman was born in 12 Janaury 1873, in Edwardsburgh Township, Grenville County, Ontario, the son of John W. Newman. He was educated in Prescott and Kingston, Ontario. In 1903, he married a Miss Allen. He raised dairy cattle near Lorneville, and was President of the Eastern Ontario Dairymans Association, and the Eastern Ontario Creameries Association. He represented Victoria in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, as a Liberal member, from 1926 to 1937.

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Newman Centers or Newman Clubs are Catholic ministry centers at non-Catholic universities found throughout the world. The establishment of this movement was inspired by the writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman encouraging societies for Catholic students attending secular universities. The first Newman club was established in 1888 at Oxford; the original Catholic club was founded by Hartwell de la Garde Grissell.
The Newman Club at Queen's University was founded by 30 Catholic Queen's students in 1917.

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William Newlands was born in 1853. His career as an architect began in Kingston sometime in 1883. John C. Newlands joined his father as a draughtsman in 1908-09, and by 1910-11 the two had formed a partnership known as William Newlands and Son. William Newlands died in 1926.

John C. Newlands, architect, was born in Kingston on 5 October 1884 and trained in his father's office from 1902 to 1910. He was invited by his father to become a full partner in the Kingston firm of William Newlands & Son in 1910, and continued to work there until 1926 when his father died. John C. then began to practise under his own name in late 1926 and remained active until after 1950. During the Depression, he worked briefly for Colin Drever, and in 1932 both he and J. Arnold Thomson of Belleville, Ont. announced an affiliation or partnership, with dual offices in both Kingston and Belleville (Kingston Whig-Standard, 3 Feb. 1932, 3, advert.). Newlands then continued to operate his own office in Kingston. He later died there on 26 February 1958

Mrs. Etta A. Newlands (1869-1963) was born Etta Reid in Kingston. A graduate of Queen's University (M.A. 1892) she taught mathematics at Queen's after the death of her husband Alexander Newlands. Her teaching career at Queen's extended over a ten year period. She also served for several years on the Kingston Board of Education and was elected Chairman in 1925 - the first woman to preside over any elected body in the civic field in Kingston.

Newlands and Son was an architectural firm in Kingston, Ontario. William Newlands trained his son, John C. Newlands from 1902-1910, after which point they formed a partnership lasting until William Newlands death in 1926.