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John Bingley Garland (1791-1875), merchant and politician, was born in Poole, England, in 1791, the son of Amy Lester and George Garland. He married Deborah Vallis in 1822; after her death, he married Fanny Marie Read, who survived him. He fathered at least seven children: Rev. George Vallis Garland; Rev. Lester Lester (who changed his name from Garland to Lester to carry on the Lester family name); Amy Pyper; Marie Georgina Cass; Ellen Blanche Plumtree; Margaret Deborah Cooksley; and Frances Augusta Swinny. Garland died at Stone Cottage, Wimborne on 12 July 1875.

The senior Garland had inherited from his father-in-law, Benjamin Lester, one of the largest and most prosperous mercantile establishments involved in the Newfoundland fish trade. The company was based in Poole, with the Newfoundland headquarters at Trinity. John Bingley Garland and his younger brother, George Junior, entered into partnership with their father in 1819. They were sent to Trinity to manage the company property in Newfoundland. Shortly after their arrival in Trinity, they were both appointed as Justices of the Peace, and were soon involved in the building of St. Paul's Anglican Church. In 1821, after only two years in Newfoundland, John returned to Poole, where he spent the next 11 years working for the family business. It is believed that he travelled to Newfoundland during that period, but his place of residence was Poole, as he was elected Mayor of that town in 1824 and in 1830. George Garland Senior retired from the business in 1822 and George Junior left in 1830, resulting in John becoming sole proprietor. He entered into a partnership with St. John's businessmen George R. Robinson and Thomas Brooking around this time.

In 1832 Garland and his family returned to Trinity, possibly in response to the granting of representative government in Newfoundland and its implications for the Garland business interests. Later that year Garland was elected to the first House of Assembly as member for Trinity Bay. Shortly after his election, Garland moved to St. John's. When the House of Assembly opened in January 1833, he was elected first Speaker. Later that year he resigned his seat and was appointed to the Executive Council by Governor Thomas Cochrane.

Despite this appointment and his growing business concerns, Garland left Newfoundland and returned to Poole in 1834. After his return to England, Garland's interest in his business appears to have declined He dissolved his partnership with Robinson and Brooking, and sold some of his holdings. The remainder devolved to his children upon his death.

Arthur Gardner Sr. was born on September 9, 1854 in British Harbour, Trinity Bay. He was one of six children born to Edward and Grace (Abbott) Gardner. He married Mary Colbourne and together they had eleven children. From the 1870s to the time of his death, Mr. Gardner ran a comprehensive general business that encompassed a wide circle of both the buying and selling trade around his hometown. Mr. Gardner passed away in British Harbour on May 17, 1916.

Sylvester Gardiner (1707-1786), physician and pharmacist, was born in South Kingston, Rhode Island, in 1707. He studied medicine in Boston and later opened a practice there. From medicine, he branched out into the pharmaceutical trade. Gardiner became a wealthy man and continued to generate wealth through his investments in real estate. He died on 8 August 1786.

When the American Revolution commenced, Gardiner supported the British (Loyalist) cause. When Boston was evacuated in 1776, he moved to Halifax, leaving most of his property behind. He spent some time in Newfoundland in the years 1783-85. After the end of the American Revolution, Gardiner returned to New England, settling in Newport, Rhode Island.

Anthon Fyme (1879-1964), Catholic priest and prelate, was born in Warnink, Holland, in 1879, the son of Gerard Cornelius James and Elizabeth Bernadine Maria. Monsignor Fyme died at St. Clare's Mercy Hospital, St. John's, on 6 September 1964. He was buried in Belvedere cemetery, St. John's.

From 1885 to 1895, Fyme attended an apostolic school for seminarians with the Crozier Fathers at Uden, Holland. He studied philosophy at Roulers, Belgium (1895-97), in preparation for ordination to the priesthood. However, he developed a health problem that forced him to discontinue his studies briefly. When his health recovered, he entered a seminary at Leeds, England, where he studied theology (1897 -1903). While there, Fyme met Michael Francis Howley, Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland, who was visiting the seminary to recruit priests for his diocese.

Following completion of his studies, Fyme came to the Diocese of St. John's, where he was ordained a subdeacon on 25 September, a deacon on 27 September, and a priest on 29 September 1903. The ordinations were performed by Bishop Howley in the chapel of the Presentation Convent, Cathedral Square, St. John's. Rev. Fyme served as curate in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Parish, St. John's (1903-10). He founded a parish Anti-Treating League, which took its name from a promise made by each member to avoid treating or being treated to alcoholic drink. As well, he established a recreational centre for fishermen on Adelaide Street. When a night school was started by the Irish Christian Brothers, at Archbishop Howley's request Rev. Fyme assumed responsibility for the classes in Christian doctrine and composed a catechism for underprivileged boys fitted to their level of education. In addition to his other duties, he taught Bible history on Sunday mornings, and was chaplain to the Penitentiary, the Catholic Cadet Corps (CCC), the Presentation Convent School, and Mercy College.

In 1910, Rev. Fyme was appointed parish priest of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Bride's, Placentia Bay, where he remained until 1913. During this ministry, he built a beautiful Romanesque church at Branch, St. Mary's Bay, a mission of the parish. In his various parishes, Fyme took care of not only the spiritual needs of the people, but also their various health needs, including the extraction of teeth. He died in St. John's at eighty-five years of age.

Frederick Wilkerson Waugh (1872-1924) began his association with the Anthropological Division of the Geological Survey of Canada (now part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization) in 1911 as a contract ethnologist. Working in the areas of material culture, food, medicine, ceremonies, ethno-botany and linguistics, his first ethnographic assignment was a study of Iroquoian technology.
F.W. Waugh's early photographic work was undertaken among the Iroquois of the Six Nations Reserve near the city of Brantford, Ontario. Having grown up close to Six Nations, Waugh already had an intimate understanding of the people he now observed as an anthropologist. His use of light and composition and his accuracy in showing the relationship of subject to environment are clear evidence of his respect for the Iroquois people.
From 1912 to 1920, Waugh continued to study the Iroquois, as well as the Mohawk of Kahnawake Reserve in Quebec. He also undertook fieldwork in 1916 which included the Ojibwa of Ontario's Long Lake, Nipigon, Manitoulin Island and Lone Lake (Lac Seul), and between 1921 and 1924 extended his studies to the Naskapi and Inuit of Labrador. By 1923, Waugh had been appointed an Associate Ethnologist with the Geological Survey — a position he held until his mysterious disappearance in 1924. (www.civilization.ca)

The F.W. Peacock collection is housed at the Centre for Newfounland Studies, Memorial University, In St. John's Newfoundland

William Fripps (1830-1862), Catholic priest, was born at Mencken, County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1830, and was educated in the national school system in Ireland. He studied for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary College, Waterford, Ireland, and arrived in the Diocese of St. John's, Newfoundland, at the invitation of Bishop John Thomas Mullock. Following his arrival, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, by Bishop Mullock on 24 June 1855.

On 15 July 1855, Rev. Fripps began his first pastoral appointment as a curate in St. Patrick's Parish, Burin, with residence in St. Lawrence. During his time there, he was appointed a member of the Roman Catholic School Board for the Burin Peninsula and Fortune Bay District. Rev. Fripps died 4 February 1862. He was buried in the vault on the eastern side of the sanctuary in the Cathedral at St. John's.