Rev. Henry Brass was born on February 19, 1831, in Bedminster, Bristol, Somerset, England.

He was a clergyman of the Anglican Church. He graduated from the Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University. He died on August 24, 1904, in St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., visiting the World's Fair grounds.

Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey, née Allnutt, was born on October 7, 1839, in London, England.

She was an English travel writer who was orphaned from her mother at an early age and brought up at her grandfather's country estate. As a result, she became a bit of a tomboy, interested in the outdoors and the natural world. She had extensive grounds to play on and a private library from which she read voraciously, teaching herself botany and several languages. As a young woman, she suffered severe burns when she stood too close to a fireplace and her skirt caught fire. This event led her to develop a lifelong interest in emergency medical care and first aid, promoting the formation of branches of the St. John Ambulance Society all over the Empire. In 1860, she married Baron Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836-1918), with whom she lived near his Hastings constituency. The couple had five children together before they traveled aboard their luxury yacht Sunbeam. What began as Brassey's journal-like letters to her father became "A Cruise in the Eöthen," published in 1872 for circulation among family friends. "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," describing their journey around the world in 1876–1877, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five languages. Her accounts of later voyages include "Sunshine and Storm in the East" (1880), "In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties" (1885) and "The Last Voyage" (1889, published posthumously). She donated all the royalties to charity. The family took at least eight sailing trips lasting at least four months. These were not, however, pleasure cruises; Thomas demanded a rigorous sailing schedule and considered his duty before convenience, often to his wife's disappointment and frustration. At home in England, she performed charitable work, largely for the St. John Ambulance Association. Her collection of ethnographic and natural history material was shown in a museum at her husband's London house until it was moved to Hastings Museum in 1919. Brassey was an accomplished photographer. She joined the Photographic Society of London (later the Royal Photographic Society) in 1873 and remained a member until her death, and she exhibited some of her work in its exhibitions in 1873 and 1886.

Brassey's books contain little about herself and are nearly silent on her almost constant seasickness and debilitating bouts of neuralgia. In August 1887, Anna Brassey abruptly fell ill on a voyage to Australia. Her last diary entry before her death at sea on September 14, 1887, was made on August 29, 1887. The ship's log only records that she was buried at latitude 15° 50' S, longitude 110° 35' E, 100 miles from Makassar in the South Pacific.

Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey, styled Viscount Hythe between 1911 and 1918, was born on March 7, 1863, in Battle, Sussex, England, the only son of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836-1918), by his first wife Anna Allnutt Brassey (1839-1887). 
 
He was a British peer, who was for many years editor or joint editor of Brassey's Naval Annual. Brassey was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He was an honorary Lieutenant in the London Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers from 1888 to 1892. He acted as Assistant Private Secretary to Earl Spencer during the time the latter was First Lord of the Admiralty (1892–95), and in 1894 was Assistant Secretary of the Royal Commission on Opium that his father chaired. Brassey was appointed a captain in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry in 1898. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Brassey volunteered for active service and was commissioned Captain of 69 (Sussex) Company of the Imperial Yeomanry in 1900. While in South Africa, he served as acting Civil Commissioner for the British government at Pretoria in 1901, following its surrender by the Boers the previous year. He later became Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the West Kent Yeomanry in 1910, retiring in 1914. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1909. After the outbreak of the First World War, he raised a second battalion to this regiment for home service, which he commanded until 1916, remaining in the Territorial Force Reserve. Brassey was editor of The Naval Annual (1892-1899, 1902-1914, 1919). He stood unsuccessfully for election to Parliament as Liberal candidate for Epsom in 1892, for Christchurch in 1895 and 1900 and Devonport in 1902. He was Mayor of Bexhill-on-Sea in 1909 and served as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Sussex. He was managing director of lead mining and smelting companies in Italy and Sardinia. He was Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
 
In 1889, he married Idina Mary Nevill (1865–1951). He died on November 12, 1919, in London, England.