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Charles Troutman was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and studied at Wheaton College. Illinois. In 1942 he married Lois Dickason. In 1936 Charles became a staff member with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Canada, then was sent to Michigan in 1939. After military service he became Associate General Secretary of IVF in the US from 1946-1953. He and his family moved to Australia and in 1954 Troutman became General Secretary of IVF Australia. In 1961 he became General Director, and served on the executive committee of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. In 1966 he joined Latin America Mission and moved to Costa Rica. He retired in 1979 and he and Lois moved to Arizona. Charles died in 1990 and Lois in 1991.

Amy Turner was active in the InterVarsity Fellowship and attended the IVF Conference in Perth in 1946. She later worked as a teacher at St Anne's School, Sale, Vic. She was a lay leader in the Methodist (later Uniting Church).

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.

Paul Hamilton Hume White was born in Bowral on 26th February 1910 and educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University where he studied medicine. In 1926 he attended a tent meeting held by the Irish evangelist W.P. Nicholson and was converted. In 1936 he married Mary Bellingham and in 1938 they sailed to Tanganyika (Tanzania) as missionaries with the Church Missionary Society. They returned to Australia in 1941 due to Mary's illness. Paul became the secretary of CMS, and began to broadcast the Jungle Doctor Broadcasts and write the Jungle Doctor books. From 1943 he was Honorary Secretary General of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVF) and President several times. He was also involved in the Crusader Union and Scripture Union, and founded African Enterprise. Mary died in 1970 and Paul married Ruth Longe in 1971. He and Mary had two children, David and Rosemary. He died of a heart attack on 21st December 1992.