Richard William Boodle was born about 1850, in Chilcompton, Somerset, England.

From 1863 to 1868, he attended Sherborne School in Dorset County, England, where he was a member of the 1st XV (rugby team) in 1868. He went on to Magdalen College in Oxford where he studied classics (1872) and history (1873). From 1886 to 1890 he was the librarian of the Fraser Institute in Montreal, Canada. From 1891-1892 and 1894-1902 he was an assistant at Birmingham Reference Library.

He died on November 17, 1918, in Birmingham, Warwicks, England after being knocked down by a tramcar.

William Bramwell Booth was born on March 8, 1856, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.

He was a British charity worker and social reformer. He was educated at home, briefly at a prep school and the City of London School. In 1870, at the age of 14, he started to help manage his father's Christian Mission and became an active full-time collaborator in 1874. When the Christian Mission became The Salvation Army in 1878, he became its officer. In 1881, he was appointed the Chief of the Staff of The Salvation Army and, upon his father's death in 1912, he became the General of The Salvation Army, a position he held until 1929. His early years in command were complicated by the First World War, as the organization had members on both sides of the war. When he travelled, he increasingly gave control of The Salvation Army to his wife and his children, resulting in being accused of nepotism and voted out in 1929. The same year King George V appointed him a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for all his contributions. Booth was the author of the books on history of The Salvation Army, "Echoes and Memories" (1925), "These Fifty Years" (1929), and the booklet "The Advantages of Vegetarian Diet."

In 1882, he married Florence Eleanor Soper (1861–1957). He died on June 16, 1929, in Hertfordshire, England.

Born in Tilly, Ontario, Walter Peter Booth graduated from McGill in arts in 1912, and with a Bachelor of Divinity from the Wesleyan College (Montréal) in 1915. Prior to graduation he served as a probationer and student assistant in Presbyterian and Methodist Churches in Québec, Ontario and Vermont (1903), and thereafter as pastor of Congregationalist churches in the United States. For most of his professional life he worked not as a clergyman but as an insurance salesman and elocutionist: he was the author of the "Booth Daily Intelligence Test" (ca 1932).