Henry Joseph Whitlock was born in 1835 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.

He was a British photographer. His father, Joseph Whitlock (1806-1852), was the first person to establish a permanent photographic studio in Birmingham in 1843. In 1852, Henry Whitlock joined the family firm, and in 1855, he left Birmingham to set up his studio in Worcester. In 1862, after the death of both of his parents, he returned to Birmingham to establish a studio of his own. By the late 1860s, he was able to claim the title “Photographer to the Queen”, modified in the 1870s to “By Special Appointment to the Queen,” and in 1891, he added “H.R.H. The Prince of Wales”. Around 1900, he founded the firm H. J. Whitlock & Sons of Birmingham and Wolverhampton. The company is associated with 65 portraits now held by the National Portrait Gallery in London.

About 1861, he married Eliza Cochrane Lowe (1835–1903). He died on December 2, 1918, in Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

Robert Parr Whitfield was born on May 27, 1828, in New Hartford, New York.

He was a paleontologist and the first curator of the American Museum of Natural History. He was self-educated and possessed tremendous drawing skills. He collected fossils and began to assist the New York State Survey in 1856. In 1858, he became assistant to Professor James Hall in Albany, New York. In 1870, Whitfield was appointed curator of the New York State Museum. During his twenty-year association with Prof. Hall, Whitfield prepared thousands of drawings of various fossil groups, e.g., graptolites, crinoids, and brachiopods. He was appointed Professor of Geology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (1872-1878). In 1877, he was hired by the American Museum of Natural History to curate and care for the James Hall Collection. He started as a Curator of Geology, and by 1885, his title changed to Curator of Geological, Mineralogical and Conchological Department. Whitfield helped found the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History and published many papers and articles. He received an honorary M. A. degree from Wesleyan University in 1882. He was an original Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

In 1847, he married Mary Henry (1827-). He died on April 6, 1910, in Troy, New York.

Clifton John Findlay Whiten was born in 1939 in Vernon, British Columbia.

He was a Canadian poet, editor, teacher, and small press publisher. He worked as a reporter and poetry editor for the Penticton Herald before becoming a teacher. He taught English at a high school in Malton, Ontario. He published his debut collection of poems, “Putting the Birthdate into Perspective,” in 1969. Whiten spent years trying to publish a follow-up collection, submitting the work to nine publishers under various titles. In 1979, he left teaching and founded his own small press, Sandpiper Press, which published his second collection of poems, “Various Titles: Selected poems, 1970-1978.” The same year, Whiten launched Poetry Canada Review, Canada's earliest poetry tabloid. He edited the magazine until 1984 when he sold it to ECW Press. He was editor of the Mattawa Recorder (Mattawa, Ontario) in 1988 and publisher and editor of the Raven Review (North Bay, Ontario) from 1995.

He was married to Barbara Jean Stevens and had two daughters, Shauna Jean and Meghan Anne. He died on May 3, 2003, in North Bay, Ontario.