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Jane Sophia Harden was born in Windemere, England. She married Frederic Barker in 1840 and travelled with him to Sydney in 1855 when he was made Bishop of Sydney. They had no children. Working alongside her husband in ministering to women, children and the poor of the diocese, she founded St Catherine's School in Waverley in 1856 for the daughters of the clergy. The climate affected her health and she died in 1876. http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ADEB/article/view/1327/1324

Captain Henry Waterhouse (1770-1812) arrived in the colony with the First Fleet, as a midshipman on board Captain Phillip’s ship Sirius. He accompanied Phillip to Norfolk Island and on expeditions inland. After returning to England on the Supply in 1792, Governor Hunter appointed him captain of the Reliance and he sailed to Sydney again in 1795. Waterhouse imported the first Spanish merino sheep to the colony in 1797, and supplied lambs to many settlers including John Macarthur and Samuel Marsden. He supported the governor against the officers of the New South Wales Corps and was given several land grants. He would have made Moore’s acquaintance during this time, before
returning to England in 1800, where he lived near Rochester, Kent until his death. He was a witness at the marriage of his sister to George Bass and a friend of Matthew Flinders.

William Macquarie Cowper was born in Sydney, the son of the assistant colonial chaplain William Cowper. He travelled to England and studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, taking an M.A. degree in 1835. That same year he was ordained by the Bishop of Exeter and married Margaret Burroughs. He and his wife returned to Sydney in 1836 and he worked as chaplain to the Australian Agricultural Company. In 1856 Bishop Barker appointed him acting principal of the newly established Moore Theological College, a position he held until the arrival of the first principal William Hodgson 6 months later. He was a trustee of the College from 1877-1902. He served as Rector of St Philip's, Church Hill, and was Dean and Archdeacon of Sydney from 1858. Margaret died in 1854 and he remarried Mary French in 1866. He is buried at St Jude's Randwick.

Henry Tingcombe was born in Plymouth and sailed to Australia in 1829 on the 'Fairfield'. He was ordained in 1847 and worked in parishes in Armidale, Bathurst, Carcoar and St John's Camden. He was the first Church of England minister in Armidale. His daughter was Margaretta Mary Woodriff, after whom Moore College's Australiana Rare collection is named.

John Woodhouse was Principal of Moore College from 2002-2013.

Dr Ruth Godden is the daughter of Charles and Eva Godden, born the year after Charles was murdered in Vanuatu. She studied education at Sydney University, and spent twelve years as a school teacher. She then returned to Sydney University to study medicine and became a general practitioner. In 1959 she moved to Murrurundi where she worked as the local doctor. In the 1960s she travelled to Vanuatu and spent some time as the doctor in charge of the Godden Memorial Hospital in Lolowai. She is the author of 'Lolowai: the story of Charles Godden and the western Pacific' (1967).
Sources: 'Murrurundi G.P. passes' Quirindi Advocate, 23 May 1990.

T.E. Hill was born in Notting Hill and educated at Cambridge. He was ordained in 1880 and worked as curate at St Mary's Ely and chaplain to Lichfield Theological College. In 1885 he sailed to Australia to take up the position of Principal of Moore College. He remained until 1888 and then returned to England where he was curate at All Hallows Barking and Vice-Principal of Gloucester Theological College (1890-1897). From 1898-1910 he was the incumbent of Little Canfield, Essex.