Howard Dayne Brunt, a native of Halifax, obtained his B.A. from Dalhousie and his PhD. from the University of Jena. He served as Principal of Bloomfield High School, Halifax, for thirteen years and then in 1919 he obtained an appointment as lecturer of English at the School of Teachers at Macdonald College. He was promoted to the level of assistant professor three years later and in 1926 became Associate Professor. From 1936, until his death in 1942, Brunt headed the English Department of Macdonald College.

Sir (James) Stopford Lauder Brunton, 2nd Baronet, was born October 11, 1884 in London, England. He married Elizabeth Bonsall Porter in Montreal on April 30, 1915. He studied mining geology at McGill University, and was a member of the Canadian Geological Survey until 1914. He died July 25, 1943, in Middlesex, England.

George Jarvis Brush was born on December 15, 1831, in Brooklyn, New York.

He was a mineralogist, geologist, and educator. He studied chemistry, metallurgy and mineralogy at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University (1848-1852). From 1852 to 1855, Brush worked and studied at the University of Virginia and in Munich and Freiberg, Germany. He returned to Sheffield in 1855 to join the faculty as a professor of Metallurgy and later of Mineralogy. He was appointed the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History's mineral collection. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1872, he became the first director of Sheffield, where he also supervised mineralogy. He also served as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1881. He published extensively in the American Journal of Science and other journals. He also published a “Manual of Determinative Mineralogy “(1875). In 1904, Brush donated his collection of minerals, along with funds for their maintenance, to Sheffield. The mineral brushite was named in his honour.

In 1864, he married Harriet Silliman Trumbull (1835–1910). He died on February 6, 1912, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Jean-Baptiste Bruyère was a businessman who worked for Robertson Masson & Co. Bruyère was born in Chateauguay, Quebec on 30 October 1809. He studied at the Collège de Montréal and then chose to work in commerce. He worked for Robertson Masson & Co. for most of his career, and saw significant success. He married Rachel MacKenzie, with whom he had 5 children, including a son named Robert. He died following a ship accident in the port of Calais on 28 February 1859.

German conductor Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (Karl Aurel) was born into a family of performers, both actors and singers, in Stuttgart. Trained in Munich, he began his musical career in 1929 as an assistant (Hilfs-Solorepetitor) to conductor Hans Knappertsbusch at the Staatsoper there. In 1934 he succeeded Herbert Von Karajan as Kapellmeister in Ulm, but was arrested for having helped fellow musician, Felix Wolfes, a Jew, to emigrate to France and then the USA. He was forbidden to conduct for several years. In 1937 Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, invited him to conduct a complete Beethoven cycle. In 1938 he was allowed to join the Hamburg Staatsoper and soon became “Erster Kapellmeister” (choir director). Beginning in 1940 he became director of the Lehrergesangsverein (Teachers’ Choir) in Hamburg; during his time there he conducted more than 700 concerts for schoolchildren. He started to teach conducting in 1943 but was mobilized in 1944. After the war, he was one of the founders of the Hochshule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and later became a full professor there. By 1970 he had conducted more than 2,000 performances of the Staatsoper there. From 1956 and 1960, he made several recordings conducting Kurt Weill’s works including some with Lotte Lenya as a soloist. He was known particularly for his direction of pieces by Handel such as oratorios. He was often invited to be a guest conductor, many times in South America. He composed at least one song, Seemansliebe, a walz, which was signed with the pseudonym “Karl Aurel,” according to the Library of Congress Catalog of copyright entries, 3rd series (1962). He had five children with his wife mezzo-soprano Ludmilla Schirmer.