General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, 1st Baronet was a Loyalist General in the British Army during the War of 1812. He was created a baronet in 1813 and afterwards served as Commander and acting Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. There is conflicting information to statements regarding his military accomplishments (1812) in the "Letters of Veritas" in and around page 50.
Christopher Alexander Hagerman, was a Canadian militia officer, lawyer, administrator, politician and judge.
Hugh MacDonell of Aberchalder (1753-1847) was a soldier and political figure in Upper Canada.
Jonas Jones was a lawyer, judge, farmer, livestock breeder, and political figure in Upper Canada.
James Macaulay M.D., J.P. was the Chief Medical Officer of Upper Canada; a landowner and Justice of the Peace for York, Upper Canada.
Sir David Lewis Macpherson, was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He was a member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1896. He was knighted for his service to the country in 1884.
Horatio Sharpe was the 22nd proprietary governor of Maryland from 1753 to 1768 under the restored proprietary government of Maryland.
Thomas Ridout was a political figure in Upper Canada.
James Edward Small, was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada and Canada West.
Edward Ermatinger was a Canadian fur trader, businessman and political figure.
Lawrence Lawrason was a businessman and political figure in Canada West.
Samuel Peters Jarvis was a Canadian government official in the nineteenth century. He was the Chief Superintendent for the Indian Department in Upper Canada (1837–1845), and he was a member of the Family Compact.
Charles Albert Berczy was the son of pioneer William Berczy, later as businessman and civic official in Toronto.
Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers.
Matilda Ridout Edgar was a Canadian historian and feminist. She was born Matilda Ridout, became Matilda Edgar by marriage, and became Lady Edgar in 1898 when her husband was knighted. The mother of nine children, she turned to historical research and writing when in her forties. She published three books in her lifetime and was working on a fourth when she died. She was active in a number of Toronto-based societies and in her later years was a strong advocate of women's causes.
Thomas Strangways (1643–1713) of Melbury House in Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1673 and 1713. As a militia colonel he was active in opposing the Monmouth rebellion. For his last nine years in Parliament, he was the longest sitting member of the House of Commons.
Ridout & Maybee LLP was a Canadian intellectual property law firm with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, and Burlington. The firm had over 30 professionals, lawyers, and agents across all three offices and was one of Canada's longest operating IP firms. The firm was acquired in 2023 by Canadian intellectual property firm Smart & Biggar, part of the IPH group of international intellectual property service firms.
Sir Randolph Isham Routh was a British Army officer reaching the rank of Commissary-General. He was senior Commissariat officer at the Battle of Waterloo.
John Ridout (1799-1817), still a teenager when he died in 1817, died in a duel with Samuel Jarvis. Both Ridout and Jarvis were from the small circle of privileged insiders called upon by the Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, to fill administrative posts, and sinecures, that William Lyon Mackenzie would later brand the Family Compact. Ridout's father, Thomas Ridout, was Upper Canada's Surveyor General. Jarvis's father, William Jarvis, had been appointed Upper Canada's provincial secretary and registrar.
Thomas Ridout was a Canadian architect and railway engineer.
