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Born in 1912, in Toronto, and known to thousands of students as "The Padre," the Rev. Dr. A. Marshall Laverty served as Chaplain at Queen's University at Kingston for 36 years (1947-1983), and is one of the University's best-known personalities. He was educated at the University of Toronto, graduating with honours in 1937. "Marsh" as he was also affectionately known, was ordained a minister in the United Church of Canada in the same year and served in parishes in Toronto, Manitoulin Island, and Stirling, Ontario, before enlisting as a Chaplain in the Canadian army in 1942 and serving with troops in Europe. In 1947, he was appointed Queen's Chaplain. He has acted as a minister, advisor, counsellor, and friend to generations of students and his organizational skills and contacts across Canada have been of immeasurable benefit to the University. Famed for his rhetorical skills and prodigious memory for names, he has also been active on behalf of numerous charitable organizations in the Kingston area, and served on the Frontenac County Board of Education for more than 30 years. He retired from his position as Chaplain in 1983, but has remained extremely active in the University community. He has received numerous awards from Queen's and other Canadian institutions. A. Marshall Laverty was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1985, and received an honorary doctorate from Queen's in 1991.

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Dr. Michael Lavell was the chair of obstetrics in the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University (starting in 1860), later the first dean of the Kingston Women's Medical College, and also the surgeon (since 1872) and Warden of Kingston Penitentiary, starting in Janury 1885.

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Alfred Edward Lavell was born in Kingston in 1870 to Michael Lavell, M.D. and Betsy Reeve Lavell. He was educated at Queen's University and Victoria University, Toronto where he obtained a B.A. and D.D. In 1897 he married Laura Ethel Gillespie of St. Catherines, Ontario. They had two daughters. From 1916 to 1919 he served in World War I. He was appointed Parole Commissioner in 1919 and Provincial Historian in 1932. He was the author of The Convicted Criminal and His Reestablishment, A History of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane and Mentally Defective, and A History of Penal and Reformatory Institutions in Upper Canada, 1792-1932. He was for eight years a member of the Board of Regents, Victoria University. He died in 1951.

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Agnes C. Laut (1871-1936) was born in Ontario and educated in Manitoba. She was as Canadian journalist, novelist and historian who worked for the Manitoba Free press before emigrating to the United States.