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The Reverend Stephen Taylor (1869 — 1953), son of the Reverend Robert Taylor, was educated at Cambridge, England, in the early 1890's, where he was ordained and began preaching until 1895. He was Curate in his father's church, St. Stephen's, Newtown [1895-1898] before serving in Newcastle. Taylor was editor of The Church Record from 1916-1926.

Robert Brodribb Stewart Hammond (b. 1870 d. 1946) was ordained Deacon in 1894 and Priest in 1896, and worked until 1918 as Curate in several Sydney parishes. From 1918-1943 Hammond was Rector of St. Barnabas', Broadway, and was Canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, from 1931-1944. In 1907 Hammond founded GRIT, a weekly Temperance journal, and from 1918-1943 he was President of the Australian Prohibition Alliance. Amongst other activities, Hammond founded homes for the unemployed and in 1932, began the Hammondville Settlement for the destitute. This work was recognized by the bestowal of an O.B.E. in 1937.

Born in 1912, Evan Colin Briarcliffe MacLaurin was a former student of Moore Theological College and was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity by Sydney University. In 1945, he became Head of the Department of Semitic Studies at Sydney University and was responsible for courses in Old Testament language and literature on the Board of Strudies in Divinity from 1950 — 1970. He was awarded the SEATO Fellowship (Islamic Research) in 1964, and was a Special Fellow of SEATO in 1966.

Margaret Jessie Steel was awarded a Diploma in Theology in 1933, later becoming the Headmistress of the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School at Moss Vale. Upon retirement from this position she became tutor for matriculation students at Moore Theological College from 1944 until 1950.

Horace William Alexander Barder was ordained Deacon in 1915 and Priest in 1917. He was Rector of St. Michael's, Vaucluse, 1927-1938; Honorary Canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral from 1936; Rector of St. Mark's, Darling Point from 1938; and Rural Dean of East Sydney from 1942. Reverend Barder died in 1949.

Francis James was a journalist and publisher. He served in World War 2 with the Royal Air Force, was shot down over France in 1942, and spent time in German POW camps. In 1945 he was invalided out of the RAF and married Joyce Staff. In 1950 he worked for the Sydney Morning Herald, before becoming managing director of 'The Anglican' newspaper in 1952. In 1957 James established the Anglican Press Ltd., which went into receivership in 1960 and was taken over by Australian Consolidated Press. In 1969 he travelled to China and was imprisoned for spying, remaining in prison until 1970 when he was released, thanks to lobbying by his friend Gough Whitlam, who was Australian Prime Minister at the time.

Honorary Commissioner for the Moore Theological College Centenary Fund Appeal (1954), and Moore Theological College Committee Treasurer, 1961-1975

William (Bill) James Lawton was born in 1934 in Sydney. A graduate of Moore College, the University of London and the Australian College of Theology, Bill also completed an MA at the University of Sydney and PhD from UNSW in 1985. From 1976-1989 he was Dean of Students and later Chapel Master at Moore College, while lecturing in History and Liturgy, Koine Greek and Ministry in an Australian Context. Bill served as Rector of Mulewa-Yalgoo in WA from 1967-1969, and from 1989-1999 was Rector of the Parish of East Sydney. This parish included the churches of St John’s, Darlinghurst, and St Peter’s, Woolloomooloo, which was deconsecrated in 1993 and sold to SCEGGS. Bill was also Chaplain to SCEGGS Darlinghurst and Elizabeth Lodge Retirement Village, Kings Cross. Bill was a member of many committees of the Australian General Synod and Diocese of Sydney Synod, includingthe Inner City Committee and the Liturgical Commission. From 2001-2007 he was the National Chaplain to Mission Australia. Bill is the author of many articles and publications including The Better time to Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885-1914(UNSW Press, 1990) and Shaping a Prayer Book for Australia (Prayer Book Society, 2010), and delivered the Annual Moore College Lectures in 1986: Being Christian, Being Australian.