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Captain Henry Waterhouse (1770-1812) arrived in the colony with the First Fleet, as a midshipman on board Captain Phillip’s ship Sirius. He accompanied Phillip to Norfolk Island and on expeditions inland. After returning to England on the Supply in 1792, Governor Hunter appointed him captain of the Reliance and he sailed to Sydney again in 1795. Waterhouse imported the first Spanish merino sheep to the colony in 1797, and supplied lambs to many settlers including John Macarthur and Samuel Marsden. He supported the governor against the officers of the New South Wales Corps and was given several land grants. He would have made Moore’s acquaintance during this time, before
returning to England in 1800, where he lived near Rochester, Kent until his death. He was a witness at the marriage of his sister to George Bass and a friend of Matthew Flinders.

Amy Turner was active in the InterVarsity Fellowship and attended the IVF Conference in Perth in 1946. She later worked as a teacher at St Anne's School, Sale, Vic. She was a lay leader in the Methodist (later Uniting Church).

Charles Troutman was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and studied at Wheaton College. Illinois. In 1942 he married Lois Dickason. In 1936 Charles became a staff member with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Canada, then was sent to Michigan in 1939. After military service he became Associate General Secretary of IVF in the US from 1946-1953. He and his family moved to Australia and in 1954 Troutman became General Secretary of IVF Australia. In 1961 he became General Director, and served on the executive committee of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. In 1966 he joined Latin America Mission and moved to Costa Rica. He retired in 1979 and he and Lois moved to Arizona. Charles died in 1990 and Lois in 1991.

Dr Robert Tong AM is a lawyer and Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Sydney. He has been active in lay ministry and in church government for more than 40 years. He was an Australian representative on the Anglican Consultative Council (1995-2000), and a Member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Panel of Reference (2005-2008). In 2010, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list.

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.