Wilbur Willis Swingle, American zoology educator. Recipient medal Endocrine Society, 1959. Fellow New York Academy of Sciences; member American Society Zoologists, American Association Anatomists, American Society Physiologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Association for Study of Internal Secreation (council 1931-1932), American Society Naturalists, Princeton Club, Sigma Xi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Chi.

Stanley Todd Swift was born on April 8, 1966, in Montreal, Quebec.

He is a British-Canadian poet, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher based in the United Kingdom. He graduated from Concordia University, Montreal (B.A. in English) and the University of East Anglia (M.A. and Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing). In 2013, he became a British citizen. While attending university, Swift was an active parliamentary debater and ran the international cabaret Vox Hunt, which featured regular performances by Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright. He was friends with rising literary stars, including Misha Glouberman, Heather O'Neill, and David McGimpsey. He was also half of the electronic music-poetry duo Swifty Lazarus, featuring composer-trombonist Tom Walsh. In the 1990s, Swift wrote hundreds of hours of television (mostly children's animation) for HBO, Paramount, Hanna-Barbera, Fox, Cinar and DIC Entertainment and was a story editor for many episodes of the anime show Sailor Moon. He also worked at General Media, Inc. (Penthouse) for several years as a writer and editor of erotica. In his formally innovative lyric poems, Swift engages themes of innocence and experience. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including “Selected Poems” (2014), “When All My Disappointments Came at Once” (2012), “England Is Mine” (2011), “Mainstream Love Hotel” (2009), “Seaway: New and Selected Poems” (2008) and “Budavox” (1999). He has edited or co-edited numerous anthologies, including “100 Poets Against the War” (2003), “Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology” (with Evan Jones, 2010), and “Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam” (with Kim Lockwood, 2012). With Martin Mooney, he coedited “Map-Maker’s Colours: New Poets of Northern Ireland” (1988). Swift’s work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including “The Best Canadian Poetry in English”, “The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry” (2006), “Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets” (2005), and “Radio Waves: Poems Celebrating the Wireless” (2004). His honours include membership in the League of Canadian Poets and a term as the Oxfam Great Britain poet-in-residence. Swift has taught at Kingston University and Concordia University. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Writing at the University of Worcester. He lives in London and maintains dual Canadian and British citizenship.

Harry Schelwald Swarth was born on January 26, 1878, in Chicago, Illinois.

He was an American ornithologist. In 1891, his family moved to Los Angeles. During his childhood, he was interested in birds and natural history and began collecting birds in 1894. He attended Baptist College in Los Angeles. In 1896, he joined the first extended natural history collecting expedition to Arizona. His book “A Distributed List of the Birds of Arizona” (1914) is recognized as the first attempt to catalogue all the birds of the state. He became a member of the Cooper Ornithological Club (now the Cooper Ornithological Society) in 1897. Swarth worked as an Assistant in the Department of Zoology at the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago, Illinois, from 1905 to 1908. In 1908, he returned to the West Coast to become an Assistant curator in Ornithology at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California Berkeley. In 1927, he became Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences. In 1930, he was elected to attend the 7th Annual International Ornithological Congress, held in Amsterdam, Holland. This allowed him to visit England, where he was received at the British and Rothschild Museums and conducted research that enabled him to complete the Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands, published in 1931. In 1932, he led the scientific staff of the Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands. Swarth was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Union. He published more than 150 books and pamphlets on zoology.

In 1910, he married Winifern Wood (1885–1960). He died on October 22, 1935, in Berkeley, California.

Robert Stuart Sward was born on June 23, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois.

He was an American and Canadian poet, novelist, and educator. He graduated from the University of Illinois (B.A.) and the University of Iowa (M.A.). He was appointed Visiting Poet at the University of Victoria, Department of Creative Writing, in 1969, where he first experimented with computer-generated poetry and served on the editorial board of Epoch. He also taught at Cornell University (1964-1965), the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Victoria, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1970, he founded the Soft Press publishing company in Victoria. In the 1980s, he worked for the CBC, where he interviewed and produced 60-minute radio features on Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, John Robert Colombo, Al Purdy, Gwendolyn MacEwen, and other leading Canadian figures. Sward also worked as a journalist, book reviewer, and feature writer for The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The Financial Times in Toronto while living on the Toronto Islands (1979-1985). He received a Canada Council grant to research and write “The Toronto Islands” (1983), a best-selling illustrated history of a unique community from prehistoric times to the present. A member of the League of Canadian Poets since 1975, Sward has toured Canada with each of his new books and reviewed and helped bring noted Canadian writers to the U.S. A Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he was chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. Sward is the author of 30 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including "Uncle Dog & Other Poems" (1962), "Kissing the Dancer" (1964), "Poems: New and Selected, 1957-1976", the novel "Jurassic Shales" (1975), "Poet Santa Cruz" (1985), "Three Dogs and a Parrot" (2001) and "God is in the Cracks, A Narrative in Voices" (2006). He has been published widely in numerous anthologies and traditional literary magazines, such as The New Yorker, Poetry Chicago, and The Hudson Review. In 2016, Sward was named Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, 2016–2018.

He died on February 21, 2022, in Santa Cruz, California.