Joseph John Gurney Terrill was born in 1839 in Brighton Township, Ontario.

He was a science teacher at the Deaf and Dumb Institution in Hamilton and an active public advocate for the deaf. He was described as a person of quiet earnestness, truthfulness, integrity, and kind and unselfish disposition. He was also an enthusiastic ornithologist.

In 1865, he married Euphemia McGann (1840–1927). He died from typhoid fever on December 7, 1869, in Hamilton, Ontario.

Alfred Tennyson, first Baron Tennyson, was born 6 August 1809 in Lincolnshire, England ; died 6 October 1892 in Haslemere, Surrey, England.

H. Susie Tenenhouse recieved B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry and was a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics and Pediatrics at McGill University. Tenenhouse joined the McGill Group in Medical Genetics as a research associate in 1972 and served as a core member from 1981 to 2004. She was the recipient of the C. P. Leblond Award of the Network for Oral and Bone Health Research in 2010.