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Historian and lecturer in history at the University of Sydney and NSW University of Technology

Douglas Campbell Tilghman (d. 1970) served in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1917–18 and was wounded at the Battle of Hamel in 1918. Following his return to Australia, he held managerial positions in the Primary Producers’ Bank of Australia in Bega, Warwick and Dirranbandi. In 1931 he was commissioned by the Queensland Government to compile a handbook on Queensland. He later worked in local government and was town clerk of Yass from 1944 to 1951 and town and shire clerk of Bourke from 1951 to 1955. He wrote three articles on railways for the Territorian in 1965, and a report following a tour of NT in 1950 on agriculture & development, for the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture. He retired to Berry on the south coast of New South Wales. He had a strong interest in both US and Australian history and in his later years carried out research on the history of the Shoalhaven district and Bega and the lives of Hamilton Hume, Boyle Travis Finniss and Captain Daniel Woodriff. His wife Margarita Tilghman was a descendant of Daniel Woodriff. His collection of Australian books and pamphlets was bequeathed to the Moore College Library, while his Americana collection was given to the National Library of Australia

Rex Meyer was a student at Moore College, he was ordained in 1942, and served his first curacy at St. Michael’s Wollongong. He also ministered at Balmain, Ultimo, Rozelle, Roseville and Lane Cove, and others, as well as a stint with Bush Church Aid. Rex was Editor of The Australian Church Record in the 1970s and served as Chaplain to Rozelle Psychiatric Hospital 1965–81.

George Ash was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge, before his ordination in Ripon in 1874. He served in parishes in Yorkshire and Surrey, emigrated to Australia in 1884 and worked at All Saints Woollahra and St Augustine's Neutral Bay.

Henry Holliday was born in Sydney, studied at Moore College and was ordained in Bathurst in 1880. He worked in Condobolin and O'Connell before returning to Sydney and serving at St Barnabas Broadway, St Bartholomew Pyrmont, St Stephen's Penrith and Christ Church Bexley/St David's Arncliffe from 1910-1921. From 1911-1924 he was the Rural Dean of South Sydney. He was also a temperance advocate and a member of the Loyal Orange Association.

T.H. Wilkinson was born on the Isle of Wight and was ordained in 1849 in Sydney. He was curate at Christ Church St Laurence and then St Mary's Balmain. From 1849-1851 he was chaplain of Darlinghurst Jail. He was rector of St John's Canberra from 1851-1854, before returning to Sydney and working at Ashfield and Enfield. In 1851 he married Julia Sarah Underwood (1827-1906) and they had five children.