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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Donald Mackenzie Schurman was born September 2nd, 1924 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served as aircrew in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in 1944-1945. Upon return to Canada he enrolled at Acadia University where he completed a B.A. in 1949, and an M.A. in 1950. He was a member, and fellow, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1955, where he attained his PhD.
Upon completion of his doctoral work Schurman taught at the University of Alberta for 1955-1956, and then Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston from 1956-1966 at which point he moved to Queen's University. Schurman taught at Queen's University for a decade, during which time he became one of the three founding principal investigators of the Disraeli project as well as the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies (1975-1977). Schurman left Queen's University in 1977 and spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of Singapore. Upon his return, he was hired as chair of the history department at RMC, where he stayed until his retirement in 1987. Dr. Schurman passed away in Kingston in June 2013.
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John Baxter Black, a Lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, was born 8 June 1919 in Kingston, Ontario. While studying at Queen's University, he enlisted with the QUC COTC Artillery Arm on 8 May 1942. During the Second World War, he served in the theatres of Northwest Europe and the Central Mediterranean, and was decorated with the 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp and War Medal 1939-45. He received an honourable discharge on 28 March 1946.