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Jack d'Esterre and Frank Kinnear founded their jewelery business in 1906 with a loan from their former employer, The P.W. Ellis Company of Toronto. They were eventually joined by their sons, John d'Esterre and Art Kinnear in the 1940s. James Ian McAskill (Jack d'Esterre's son-in-law) purchased Frank Kinnear's half of the business in the mid-1950s. McAskill and John d'Esterre took over joint management until the mid-1970s until their retirements, then transferring management responsibilities on to R. Ian McAskill. He was joined by his brother-on-law, David Bearse, in 1978, and the two would manage the business until the firm wound down operations in 2004.

Clarke was born in Norwich, England and trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London University from 1962 to 1966. In her graduating year, she won the Slade Painting Prize. She immigrated to Canada in 1968 with her husband Phil Darrah, settling in Edmonton, Alberta, then the centre of formalist abstraction in western Canada. As Ann Clarke Darrah, she became a prominent member of the art scene in Western Canada. During these years she worked as a part time instructor of painting, drawing and basic design at the University of Alberta, the University of Saskatchewan, Red Deer College, Grant McEwan College, the Banff Centre and the Edmonton Public School Board Continuing Education Department.
Darrah and Clarke divorced in 1979 and in 1984, she moved from Alberta to Toronto. She lived in Toronto for a few years, teaching part-time at the University of Guelph, at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, and as adult art education co-ordinator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She moved to Tamworth near Kingston in 1987, taught at Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College and was Artistic Director of the Kingston Artists Association Inc. (now Modern Fuel). In 1992 she went to Thunder Bay to teach full-time in the Department of Visual Arts at Lakehead University. She taught Painting, Drawing, Basic Design and Major Studio. She was also Department Chair for several years, retiring as a full professor (Professor Emerita) in 2009. In 2013, Clarke returned to the Kingston area, to Newburgh, Ontario, where she and her son Ben Darrah opened an art centre.

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Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Francis Edward Wootton, OBE, MC, ED, was born on 19 January 1885 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Wootton served for more than four years during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross in 1919. He enlisted again during the Second World War and served from 1939 to 1945. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the last year of the war. He was also awarded the Canadian Efficiency Decoration for his long and meritorious service in the militia. In July 1937 Francis became assistant superintendent for the CPR in Kenora, Ontario and he and his family lived there for more than two years. Francis enlisted again when the Second World War started. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant-Colonel and given command of the 4th Army Field Brigade, Royal Canadian Artillery on 1 December 1939. He led his unit to England in February 1940 but returned to Canada in April. He served at Camp Petawawa until 1943, most of that time as the senior administrative officer. In March 1943 Francis helped organize the No. 1 Canadian Railway Operating Group, Royal Canadian Engineers, and he commanded the unit in France and Germany in the last two years of the war.

In November 1945 Francis was promoted to superintendent for the CPR in Medicine Hat, Alberta. In November 1949 he moved to Ottawa to serve as a railway advisor to the Defence Research Board. He retired from the CPR in January 1950 after 47 years of service, including ten years with the Canadian army.

Wootton was married in Winnipeg on 26 July 1919 to Ada Isabella Sharman. He and his wife had one son, Francis William Wootton, who was born in Saskatoon in 1922. Francis William graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada and went on to have a career in the military, retiring as a Brigadier-General. Wootton passed away in the Ottawa Civic Hospital on 27 September 1951, at age 66.

Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Oldham was born March 8, 1927, in Port Chester, New York, and grew up in neighboring Rye, New York. She began visiting Nantucket in 1951, and by the early 1970s, both her mother, Amélie Oldham, and her oldest sister, Faith Oldham, were living year-round on the island. Libby worked for the better part of her early adult life in Manhattan, most notably for the Bollingen Foundation, a publisher of scholarly works in the humanities. In 1979, she took what she thought would be a brief hiatus from her New York life to await the birth of her grandson on Nantucket.

She served as executive director of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce from 1982-1992. She was a stalwart of the Unitarian Church, served as its treasurer, and was a jubilant member of the church choir. She sang in the community chorus and she was a frequent featured performer on the stage of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. She also participated in the successful campaign to restore the African Meeting House. In 1982, Libby was instrumental in establishing the South Church Preservation Fund, the nonprofit entity charged with the structural stewardship of Nantucket’s 1809 golden-domed church building that houses the Town Clock. She worked as copyeditor for Nantucket Magazine until 2005, and worked for the Nantucket Hostorical Association from 1996 to 2018. Libby passed away in Nantucket on 20 June 2018.