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Henry Pearson Gundy was born at Toronto on June 1, 1905. After attending the University of Toronto Schools, Mr. Gundy entered Victoria University, Toronto in 1923 with a view to preparing for the ministry of the Methodist church. The following year he entered the University of Toronto. In 1928, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree. In 1930, he graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. In 1931, he was appointed Lecturer in English at McMaster University; a position he held for the next four years. In 1937, he was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Mount Allison University. Two years later he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 1940, he became Director of the Department of University Extension. In 1942, he was appointed Joseph Allison Professor of English and Head of the Department. In 1944, Mr. Gundy attended the Summer Session of Columbia University Library School. Later that year he was appointed Director of Library Service, Mount Allison Memorial Library. In 1947, he became Chief Librarian, Queen's University; a position he held until 1965. Following his retirement as Chief Librarian, he became Professor of English. From 1967 to 1972 he was Editor of Queen's Quarterly and was also Associate Director and Senior Editor of McGill-Queen's University Press from 1970-1971. In addition he has contributed many articles to learned journals in canadian history and the fields of Canadian bibliography and publishing. Gundy died in 1994.

John Alexander Wilson (Jock) Gunn, was born in Quebec City, 17 August 1937. He obtained an Honours B.A. in Politics and History from Queen's University at Kingston in 1959; an M.A. in Political Economy from the University of Toronto, two years later; and a D. Phil. from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1966.

Jock Gunn joined the Department in 1960 as a lecturer. From 1963-1965 he was a research student at Nuffield College, Oxford; while at Oxford, his studies were directed by John Plamenatz, and the resulting D. Phil thesis was published as Politics and the Public Interest in the Seventeenth Century (1969). Two years later Gunn published Factions No More: Attitudes to Party in Government and Opposition in Eighteenth Century England (1971). Between 1975 and 1983, Gunn served a Head of the Department of Political Studies; during those same years, he was part of a team that edited volumes of the letters of Benjamin Disraeli (Vols. 1 & 2, 1982). His study of eighteenth-century political ideas, Beyond Liberty and Property, was published in 1983; Mark Goldie of Cambridge University remarked in a review that few Political Science departments could "boast a scholar who writes with such historical finesse," while J. G. A. Pocock lauded the book as a groundbreaking study that would force scholars to rethink long-held assumptions about the period. The same can be said of the articles that Gunn published between 1967 and 1990, many of which are now being prepared for re-publication.

By the end of the 1980s Gunn was turning to the study of French political ideas. After taking some years to "retool," Gunn published his first major study in the new field, Queen of the World: Opinion in the Public Life of France from the Renaissance to the Revolution (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1995), and was appointed to the Peacock Chair in the same year. From 1995 research was focused on the second major study of French political ideas, "Lessons in Civil Disagreement: Opposition and Party in the French Restoration," now completed by not yet published. The final instalment in the French triptych will be a study of the French contribution to the conception of what constitutes "authentic" government.

In addition to these books, and a succession of seminal articles and incisive review essays, Professor Gunn has made substantial contributions to learning. A supervisor of 14 doctoral dissertations, Gunn is a renowned teacher and moulder of future students of ideas. Queen’s Libraries have also benefited from his influence: since the late 1960s Gunn has guided the development of a collection of some 2500 political pamphlets published in Britain between 1642 and 1840, and has recently been developing a similar collection of French materials. A tireless advocate of scholarly excellence, Professor Gunn has been a credit to Queen’s University, and to the Department of Political Studies.

Dr. Gunn was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. He retired in 2001 as the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Studies, at Queen’s University.

William (Bill) Walker Hamilton Gunn was born in Toronto in 1913. Bill graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Toronto in 1934. He worked in accounting and public relations until 1941 when he enlisted in the Army (Ordnance Corps). In 1945 He participated in Operation Muskox, an Arctic research operation, where he represented the Canadian Wildlife Service. Gunn was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1946.

Returning to school, Gunn completed his Ph.D. in 1951. His research examined the relationship between bird migration and weather patterns. His application of radar data to understanding migratory patterns contributed to migratory bird forecasting still used at airports today. It was during this period that Gunn started to record bird songs. When he joined the then-fledgling Federation of Ontario Naturalists (F.O.N.) as its first executive director (1952-1955) he produced an LP recording of bird songs consisting predominantly of common woodland and garden birds. Based on the great success of the project he went on to record more volumes for the organization. His second record was "A Day in Algonquin Park”, followed by Birds of the Forest, Warblers, Flores Morades, Finches, Prairie Spring, Thrushes, Wrens and Mockingbirds of British North America, and Birds of the African Rain Forests.

His expertise in pioneering bird recording led to his appointment in 1963 as a consultant and recordist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He regularly worked recording and producing sound for "The Nature of Things". For this series he recorded in Canada, the Galapagos, Sri Lanka, East Africa and Madagascar. He also worked for Untamed World on CTV as well as various other television productions.

Bill Gunn was one of the founders of LGL Limited. He was the firm’s first president from 1970 to 1980 and a chairman from 1980 to 1984. LGL was one of the earliest ecological firms in Canada and still provides biological and environmental research and consulting services to the public and private sectors.

William Walker Hamilton Gunn died of cancer on the 15th of October, 1984, at the age of 71.

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Ralph Barker Gustafson, poet and professor, was born at Lime Ridge, Quebec on August 16, 1909. He was educated at Bishop's University, earning a B.A. (1st class honours and winner of the Governor General's medal along with many other awards) in 1929 and an M.A. in 1930. He also completed a B.A. at Oxford in 1933, an M.A. in 1963, and has been awarded a D. Litt. from Mount Allison in 1973, a D.C.L. from Bishop's University in 1977, and a D. Litt from York University in 1991. Over the years Dr. Gustafson has held a number of posts. He was music master, Bishop's College School, 1920-30; teacher of English St. Alban's School for Boys, Brockville, Ontario, 1933-34; tutor and journalist, London, England, 1935-38; British Information Services, New York, N.Y., 1942-46; Professor and Poet-In-Residence, Bishop's University, 1963-79 and music critic, C.B.C., since 1960.Winner of a number of awards, including the Order of Canada and the Governor General's Award for Poetry, Dr. Gustafson has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose as well as editing several anthologies of verse. He died in 1995.

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Norman Gregor Guthrie hailed from the Guelph area and was educated at McGill, Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto. He was a poet and lawyer. Under the name of John Crichton, he published "A vista" (1921), "Flower and flame" (1924), "Pillar of smoke" (1925), and "Flake and petal" (1928). His study of Archibald Lampman (1927) proved that he was also an able critic. He died in 1929.

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