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John Barrett was born in Yorketown, South Australia and studied at the University of Adelaide. He was ordained as a Methodist minister and served in the parishes of Snowtown and Naracoorte. In 1969 he was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University, and then lectured at La Trobe University from 1969-1990. He is the author of "That better country : the religious aspect of life in eastern Australia, 1835-1850", "Falling in : Australians and "boy conscription', 1911-1915" and "We were there : Australian soldiers of World War II", and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Australian Studies.

William Pascoe Crook was the first Congregationalist minister in Australia. He was born in England and sailed to the South Pacific on the London Missionary Society's ship Duff in 1796. He spent several years working in the Marquesas Islands, then returned to England where he married Hannah Dare. They arrived in Sydney in 1803, and Samuel Marsden engaged him to open the colony's first boarding school in Parramatta. He established a Congregational church in the schoolroom, earning the disapproval of Marsden and others. He returned to mission work in Tahiti, living there from 1816-1830, then returned to Sydney where he helped establish the Temperance Society and the School Society. He died in Melbourne in 1846. https://www.moore.edu.au/library/special-collections/15-04-2016/william-pascoe-crook---intrepid-missionary-and-dissenter

Frederick Hordern was born in Ashfield, NSW and studied at Moore College from 1909-1911. After serving as curate of St George's Hobart from 1917-1918 he worked in many churches in Sydney, including Rose Bay, Prospect and St Peter's Cooks River. From 1929-1934 he was deputy secretary for CMS (Sydney).

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.

Ernest Cameron was born in Erskineville and attended St Andrew's Cathedral School and Moore College. He was ordained in 1920. From 1930-1937 he was Rector of St Peter's Hornsby, then St Luke's Mosman from 1937-1963. He was appointed honorary Canon of St Andrew's Cathedral in 1949.

Dr Ruth Godden is the daughter of Charles and Eva Godden, born the year after Charles was murdered in Vanuatu. She is the author of 'Lolowai: the story of Charles Godden and the western Pacific' (1967).

Cecil Dillon was born in Kangaroo Valley, and studied at Moore College from 1924-1927, and was ordained in 1928. After serving as curate at Castle Hill, Hornsby and Strathfield, he became rector of St Andrew's Strathfield in 1933 and remained there until 1971, except for serving as an army chaplain from 1942-1946.

Len Abbott was ordained in Adelaide in 1961