James Gunther was born in Oberschwandorf, Germany. He studied at the CMS College in Islington and was ordained in 1836. After sailing to Australia in 1837 he went to the Wellington Valley as a CMS missionary. From 1843-1879 he was rector of St John's Mudgee, and then Canon of All Saints Bathurst.
Stuart Barton Babbage was born in Auckland in 1916. He studied history and economics at Auckland University, then completed a PhD at London University. After ordination in 1939 he served in an Essex parish, then as RAF chaplain in Norfolk. He married Elizabeth King in 1943, and was then sent to Iraq and Persia. In 1946 he came to Sydney as diocesan missioner, then served as Dean from 1947-1953. In 1953 he became Principal of Ridley College and Dean of Melbourne (1953-1962). In 1959 he chaired the organising committee for Billy Graham's crusade. He went to America in 1963 to take up a position of professor Columbia Theological Seminary, Georgia. He established the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and was President from 1963-1973. Returning to Australia, he was Master of New College at the University of New South Wales from 1973-1983, and in 1995 was awarded the Order of Australia. From 1977-1992 he was also Registrar of the Australian College of Theology. He and Elizabeth had four children; she died in 1984.
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
William Dumbrell studied at Moore College and was ordained in 1957. He completed an MA at Sydney University, a BD and MTh at the University of London and the ThD at Harvard University in 1969. He has been a faculty member at Moore College, as well as Sydney and Macquarie Universities, Regent College and Emmaus Bible College.
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.