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Bob Marsden is a descendant of Rev. Samuel Marsden

The New University Colleges Council was formed as a company limited by guarantee and held its first meeting on 13th September 1960. It arose from an informal group known as the 'Halls of Residence Committee', inspired by residential university colleges in the UK. The first committee included Broughton Knox, Dr Lawrence Lyons and Edwin Judge. One of the first colleges was New College at UNSW.

Noel Pollard was lecturer and librarian at Moore College. From 1967-1973 he was Master of New College at the University of New South Wales. He also served as the Sydney Diocesan Archivist.

Herbert John Rose was born in Hertford, England and educated at King's College, University of London. He was ordained in 1882, and in 1884 accompanied Bishop Alfred Barry to Australia to serve as Rector of Christ Church North Sydney until 1885. During 1885 he served as the Protestant chaplain to the New South Wales contingent to Sudan, and subsequently appointed honorary chaplain to the NSW Volunteer Forces. He also served as chaplain during the Boer War. From 1885 until his death he was rector of St Anne's Strathfield. He married Harriet Priddle in 1887 and they had three sons and one daughter.

Marie Robinson (nee Taubman) was the wife of Bishop Donald Robinson. She served as ex officio President of the Mothers' Union Sydney from 1975-1980 and from 1986-1989.

Archdeacon Richard Bradley Robinson was born in Randwick, studied at Moore Theological College and was ordained in 1912. In 1916 he married Gertrude Ross. He was rector of several parishes including St Paul's Chatswood, St Barnabas Broadway and St Stephen's Willoughby. He was also a Canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, chaplain to the Deaconess Institution and a trustee of the estate of Thomas Moore. He retired in 1956 and died in 1966.

Bruce Reed was born in Melbourne and trained as an architect before studying at Moore College. He married Mary Robinson in 1948. In 1957 he set up the Christian Teamwork Trust in Britain, which became the Grubb Institute of Behavioral Studies in 1969. He worked as an organisational analyst consultant for large corporations as well as both the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches. In 1978 he published The Dynamics of Religion. After Mary's death in 2003, he married his colleague Jean Hutton and then died the same year.

Mary Bradley Robinson married Bruce Reed in 1948 and lived in Britain until her death in 2003. They had no children.

The Council of Christians and Jews was first founded in Melbourne in 1985, then in Sydney in 1988. A national body was incorporated in 1991. Its aim is to promote interfaith dialogue between the Christian and Jewish communities in Australia.