George Frederick Armstrong was born on May 15, 1842, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.

He was an English engineer and educator specializing in railway, civil, and sanitary engineering. He graduated from King's College, London (1860) and Cambridge University (B.A., 1864; M.A., 1867). Armstrong began his career as an assistant engineer under Richard Johnson, the then Chief Engineer of the Great Northern Railway. By 1869, he returned to work at the company's locomotive works at home in Doncaster and later became engineer of the Isle of Man Railway Company. In 1871, he became the first Professor of Civil Engineering at the Applied Science School of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 1876, the Chair of Engineering in the then recently founded Yorkshire College at Leeds was established. He accepted the appointment of its first Professor of Engineering, a post he held for about five years. In 1885, Armstrong, who was of Scottish descent, was appointed by the Crown to become the second Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, a post he held until his death. He inaugurated courses on sanitary engineering for the benefit of the medical students studying public health. He also became an engineering adviser to the Local Government Board for Scotland under the Public Health Act. He was the honorary local secretary for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute and the British Association, as well as the Honorary President of the East of Scotland Engineering Association. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Armstrong was President of the Sanitary Engineering Section of the British Institute of Public Health in Edinburgh in 1893. He was elected President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in 1896 and became a Fellow at his alma mater, King's College, in 1899. In his final years, Armstrong was an external examiner in engineering at the University of Wales and a member of the Board of Trustees of Wordsworth College. He served as Justice of the Peace for his home county of Westmorland and Chairman of the Grasmere District Council.

In 1893, he married Margaret Anne Brown (1847–1906). He died on November 16, 1900, in Grasmere, Westmorland, England.

J. R. Armstrong served as the Treasurer (1881-1886) and President of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society (1887-1888).

Julian Armstrong is a Canadian food writer and long-time journalist with the Montreal Gazette. During her career, she has extensively researched and written about Quebec's foodways and culinary history. Armstrong was born in Toronto and grew up in the city's Annex neighbourhood. She graduated from the Bishop Strachan School and then from the University of Toronto with a degree in history. During the 1950s, she worked briefly at the Toronto Star newspaper before moving to Montreal and taking a job at the Montreal Gazette, in what was then known as the women's department. Armstrong married Montreal lawyer Robert O'Brien in 1957. After taking a local cooking class, she began writing about food one day a week for the Gazette. She worked as food editor at the Montreal Star from 1964 until the newspaper folded in 1979. In 1986, while a food editor with the Montreal Gazette, Armstrong began to travel around Quebec, speaking with local chefs, home cooks, and food producers, and learning around the region's culinary heritage and practice. These culinary travels served as the basis for two books: Made in Quebec: A culinary journey, published in 2014, and A taste of Quebec, published in 1990 with an updated edition in 2001. She has received numerous journalism awards and is a founding member of the Association of Food Journalists and the association Taste Canada (previously known as the Cuisine Canada culinary alliance).

Margaret Anne was the daughter of Thomas Brown. In 1873, She married George Frederick Armstrong in Headingly St. Michael, Yorkshire. At the time, George was the first professor of civil engineering at McGill University’s Applied Science School. The couple lived in Montreal for five years, and their first child, George Cyril, was born there. In 1876, the family moved back to England, where George had been named chair of the engineering department at Yorkshire College. In 1880, Margaret gave birth to a second child, Margaret Muriel. The next move came in 1885 when her husband was appointed Regius professor of engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Son George and Muriel were already grown up when Margaret Anne became a widow in 1900.

Kim André Arnesen was born on November 28, 1980, in Trondheim, Norway.

He is a Norwegian composer. He is known for his choral compositions, both a cappella, accompanied by piano or organ, or large-scale works for chorus and orchestra. He was educated at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim, Norway. As a composer, he had his first performance in 1999 with Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir. Since then, he has written music that has been performed by several choirs all over the world. His first CD album, "Magnificat," was nominated for Grammy Awards 2016 in the Best Surround Sound Album category. His "Cradle Hymn" was a part of the regional Emmy Prize-winning show "Christmas in Norway." Arnesen is an elected member of the Norwegian Society of Composers.

Gustave Arnheim was born on September 11, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was an American pianist and an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs, his first hit being "I Cried for You" (1923). He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles for eight years. He also played at the Chicago Chez Paree, New York Palace and later toured with the "George White Scandals" in Europe. He also had a few small acting roles and was the conductor/lyricist in four films.

In 1924, he married Dorothy Valerie Cohen (1905–1993). He died of a heart attack on January 19, 1955, in Los Angeles, California.

A. J. Arnold, Esq., was first the treasurer, then the travelling secretary for the south of Europe, assistant secretary and later the General Secretary of the British Evangelical Alliance in London in the late 1800s. He edited the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Evangelical Alliance held in London, June–July 1896. He made frequent and exhausting journeys throughout Europe. Arnold was known for promoting the cause of religious freedom in continental Europe and the importance of practical unity among all churches holding the evangelical doctrines of grace. He resided in North America for four years.

He died in 1898.