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S.M. Johnstone was born in Wicklow, Ireland, and educated in Dublin, London and Belfast. He was ordained in Sydney in 1904. He was General Secretary of the Church Missionary Association from 1910-1911 and then Rector of St John's Parramatta from 1911-1935. In 1926 he became the editor of the Sydney Diocesan Magazine, and from 1936-1949 served as Archdeacon of Sydney. Between 1939 and 1943 he was also honorary organising secretary of the Church of England National Emergency Fund (CENEF). He died in Victoria and is buried in Prospect church cemetery.

The son of Samuel Martin Johnstone and his wife Elyne, J.R.L. Johnstone was born September 15th 1914 in Parramatta and baptised at St John's Cathedral. He was educated at the King's School, Moore Theological College and the University of Sydney, where he studied law. He was ordained in 1940 and served in the parishes of Pymble, Mosman, Carlingford and Beecroft. From 1942-1982 he was Rector of St John's Beecroft and Cheltenham. He was also visiting lecturer in church law at Moore College 1948-1964, as well as Canon of St Andrew's Cathderal from 1963.

William Macquarie Cowper was born in Sydney, the son of the assistant colonial chaplain William Cowper. He travelled to England and studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, taking an M.A. degree in 1835. That same year he was ordained by the Bishop of Exeter and married Margaret Burroughs. He and his wife returned to Sydney in 1836 and he worked as chaplain to the Australian Agricultural Company. In 1856 Bishop Barker appointed him acting principal of the newly established Moore Theological College, a position he held until the arrival of the first principal William Hodgson 6 months later. He was a trustee of the College from 1877-1902. He served as Rector of St Philip's, Church Hill, and was Dean and Archdeacon of Sydney from 1858. Margaret died in 1854 and he remarried Mary French in 1866. He is buried at St Jude's Randwick.

C.C. Godden was born in Victoria and studied under Nathaniel Jones at Perry Hall, Bendigo and then at Moore College, Sydney. He was ordained in 1900 and worked as curate at St Michael's Surry Hills. He then travelled to Norfolk Island for training at the Melanesian Mission, before going to Omba/Ambae, Vanuatu as a missionary in 1901. He married Eva Dearin while on leave in Sydney in 1905 and they returned to Vanuatu in 1906. He was murdered by a local man, Alamemea, who had been pressed into working on the Queensland cane fields and bore a grudge against white man for the treatment he had received in prison for attempted murder. His daughter Ruth was born in 1907. Godden is remembered as a martyr.

A.J. Dyer was born in Melbourne and studied at St Columb's Hall Wangaratta. He was ordained by Bishop D'Arcy-Irvine in 1928, after having worked as a lay worker at Groote Eylandt and as the Superintendent of the Roper River Mission from 1922-1925. From 1928-1935 he was the priest superintendent at Oenpelli Mission. He then travelled to Sydney where he worked in various parishes. He was the Acting Chaplain of Lord Howe Island from 1956-1958, and in 1959 was made Acting Chaplain of Norfolk Island. He was living in Austinmer when he died in a motor accident in 1968.

Henry Tingcombe was born in Plymouth and sailed to Australia in 1829 on the 'Fairfield'. He was ordained in 1847 and worked in parishes in Armidale, Bathurst, Carcoar and St John's Camden. He was the first Church of England minister in Armidale. His daughter was Margaretta Mary Woodriff, after whom Moore College's Australiana Rare collection is named.

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.