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The family includes W.H. Coombs, a teacher, and A.A. Coombs, a daguerreotype photographer.

A.B. Copp was a lawyer in Sackville, New Brunswick.

George Gordon Coulton was born at King's Lynn in 1858. After some early schooling at Lynn and at the lycee at St.Omer (France) he was sent to Felsted school. In 1877 he went to St.Catherine's College, Cambridge as a scholar and went down with an aegrotat degree. After a brief period as a preparatory schoolmaster he read for holy orders, was ordained deacon in 1883 and priest in the following year.However after a short period he felt himself unable to continue and accepted posts is various public schools, with a happy interval of sixteen months in a private school in Heidelberg(Germany). Overwork while at Dulwich College brought on a breakdown in 1895. On his recovery he joined a friend who ran a coaching establishment at Eastbourne where for the next thirteen years he worked happily in conditions which gave him freedom to pursue his own studies. By this time he had determined to devote his energies to the serious study of medieval life and thought, and in particular to the working of the ecclesiastical system and he began to put out such books as From St.Francis to Dante (1906) and Chaucer and His England (1908) into which he poured some of the considerable knowledge he had acquired. His growing reputation was enhanced by the appointment as Birkbeck Lecturer in ecclesiastical history conferred on him by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1910, and as a result of this he decided to migrate to Cambridge to set up as a free-lance lecturer and coach the following year. In 1919 he was elected into what was then the sole university lectureship in English, and a little later in the same year he was made a Fellow of St.John's College. From then onwards, save for the years 1940-44 when he was a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto, his life was spent in Cambridge where he produced an unending flow of works and enjoyed a growing reputation both as a scholar and as an ever-ready adviser to those who sought his aid in matters historical. Coulton received the honorary degree of D.Litt. from Durham University (1920) and of LL.D. from Edinburgh (1931) and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1942). He was elected a Fellow of the British Association in 1929 and an Honorary Fellow of St.Catherine's College in 1922. He died at Cambridge in 1947.

Professor Crawford was born in Great Village, Nova Scotia in 1904. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in 1924 and an M.A. in 1926 in Political Science. From 1926 to 1934 he was assistant city clerk of London and city clerk from 1934 to 1944 when he came to Queen's University as director of the Institute of Local Government. For two years (1956-1958) he was on loan to the Ontario Government as Deputy Minister of the Department of Municipal Affairs and in 1962 Premiere John Robarts appointed him to a three-member commission set up to prepare a complete redistribution of Ontario's electoral districts. Professor Crawford was elected alderman of the City of Kingston in 1946 and held the post for ten years. He was also a member of the Kingston Planning Board. He was widely known as the author of a leading reference book Canadian Municipal Government. He died July 6, 1970.

Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Clergyman.

The Township of Ernestown dates back to the 1700’s. In 1783 it was known as Second Town, because it was the second township laid out in this part of Upper Canada. The first settlers arrived in 1784 and were members of the 2nd Battalion of Sir John Johnson’s regiment of the King’s New York Rangers. Before 1792, the spelling was "Ernesttown", named after the eighth child of King George the third, Prince Ernest Augustus. The Territorial Division Act, revises Statutes of Ontario (1937 & 1950) spelled it with only one ‘t’ and that was adopted as the official spelling. The original survey reserved a town site, and the village of Ernestown grew rapidly. In 1812, the area became known as Bath, and ultimately emerged as a separate municipality. The name Ernestown was later used to designate a port of entry at what is now Millhaven. Ernestown is now the name of an abandoned railway station on County Rd. 4 (formerly Highway 133) and is used to describe the hamlet that exists on the opposite side of the tracks. Ernestown Township’s most significant milestone was in 1952 - Imperial Chemical Industries of Canada Ltd. acquired 1,500 acres of land and built a plant on that site. The plant is currently known as Celanese Canada.

The Fairfields were a well-known United Empire Loyalist family. William Fairfield, the first settler, chose the location of the Fairfield homestead near where Amherstview is today when he came to Canada from Vermont in 1784.William Senior was the father of six sons and six daughters, of whom three were born at the Fairfield homestead. Stephen Fairfield, the fifth son of William Senior, and his son and grandson were the only descendants who stayed on the original homestead. During the war of 1812, some interesting family ties provided correspondence between Major Brown of Brownsville, N.Y., husband of Clara, William Senior's youngest daughter, and brother of General Brown who commanded the American forces, and his Canadian in-laws. About 1840, Stephen, now "land-poor" and without Negro help, turned his house into a tavern run by tenants. With an increase in his personal fortune the old house was restored to its original use.

Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.