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Wentworth Dillon “Wenty” Walker was born on June 23, 1917 in Toronto to Grace Edith Dillon and Ewart Buchan Walker son of Canadian Business and Arts Patron Sir Edmund Walker. Wentworth attended Appleby College from 1931 to 1935. While at Appleby, he was a member of the Dramatic Club, a librarian in Powell’s House, and was vice-captain of the Badminton team (1934 & 1935). Upon leaving, Wentworth gifted Appleby with a locomotive bell to use a school bell. Wentworth studied at the Toronto University specializing in mathematics and physics. During the Second World War, Wentworth served as a sergeant in the army and was discharged due to medical reasons. In 1942, he married Elisabeth Margaret Walker (nee Steel), and together they had two sons, Brian and Peter. Postwar, Wentworth worked as an auditor for the Shell Oil Company. Wentworth followed in his grandfather’s passion for cultural involvement and philanthropy. His affinity for the arts led him to an involvement with the Hart House Theatre, the Central Ontario Region of the Dominion Drama Festival, the Toronto Children Players, and the John Holden Players, where he performed stage managing and lighting duties. A long-time member of the Arts and Letters Club, Wentworth also championed the preservation of important landmarks and natural resources through the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. He also had a great interest in the Walker family history, particularly the life and time of Sir Edmund Walker, his grandfather. Wentworth Walker died on November 6, 2009.

Harold C. Walker was born in 1983 to Sir Byron Edmund and Mary Alexander Walker. He was the youngest of seven children. He married Kathleen I.L. Temple (1897 - 1983) and they had three children.

Harold C. Walker was appointed to the Appleby College Board of Governors on April 1, 1924 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Col. James George. This was the same board meeting that it was announced his father, Sir Edmund Walker had died. However, Harold was not appointed to the Board to replace his father. Harold C. Walker was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors on December 21, 1926. He was in this role until his resignation on February 11, 1953 when Mr. C.L. Gundy was appointed Chairman and took the chair immediately.

Harold C. Walker died on March 23, 1969.

Gladys Walker was born in 1882 to Sir Byron Edmund and Mary Alexander Walker. She was the fourth of seven children. She married John S. H. Guest (1874 - 1953) and they had four children: David G. "Dadie" born in 1908, John S. born in 1911, Elizabeth N "Betty" [Osler] born in 1914, and Katherine M "Kitty" [Stevens], born in 1917.

Sir Byron Edmund Walker (1848 - 1924), Appleby's founder, was a prominent Canadian businessman and patron of the arts. A president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and a Chairman of the Board and Chancellor of the University of Toronto, he was also instrumental in founding the Royal Ontario Museum and the National Gallery of Canada. He was an honorary president of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and a chairman of the Royal Conservatory of Music, as well as being a keen amateur palaeontologist, and the owner of one of the world's finest and largest collections of Japanese prints.

During the first decade of the 20th century, John Guest, the head of the prep school at Upper Canada College, dreamed of having a small school of his own in the country. He was fortunate in having married Gladys Walker, the daughter of Sir Edmund, and the young headmaster's father-in-law was in a position to make Guest's dream come true. Sir Edmund underwrote the purchase of the school's original 32 acres in Oakville and the construction of the earliest buildings; he became chairman of Appleby in 1917, when the school passed from his private ownership into the hands of the Corporation of Appleby School, and served until 1924.

He was married to Mary Alexander (1851 - 1923) and together they had seven children: Ethelwyn (1875 - 1966), Edmund M. (1877 - 1969), Ewart B. (1879 - 1953), Gladys Walker (1882-1971) - married John S. H. Guest, Dorothy I (1889 - 1875), Alfred A. (1891 - 1973), and Harold C. (1893 - 1969). Harold C. Walker would also serve on the Appleby College Board of Governors.

Sir Edmund Walker died on March 27, 1924.

E. Alastair Walker was born April 1, 1902 in Toronto to Grace Edith Dillon and Ewart Buchan Walker son of Canadian Business and Arts Patron Sir Edmund Walker. Alastair attended Appleby College from 1916 to 1924. He was the nephew of Appleby Headmaster John Guest. While at Appleby, Alastair was Head Prefect (1923-1924), he played on the First Rugby and Cricket teams, which he was awarded Colours, and was a member of the Dramatic Club.

Alastair received his B.A. from University College, University of Toronto in 1928. After a brief period as a Wall Street 'Runner', he returned to his studies, receiving an Honours B.A. in English in 1931 and a M.A. in 1943 from Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1932, Alastair joined the Appleby School staff teaching English and Matriculation until he enlisted in 1941. From 1941 to 1944 he lectured at the Ordnance School, Barriefield, emerging with the rank of Major in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. In 1944 he joined the staff at Queen's University as an instructor in the English Department, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. Alastair Walker died November 19, 1992.

Alan Ewart Gilbert Wainwright was born on Aug. 12, 1914 and attended Appleby School from 1924 to 1925.

He was a Pilot Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force and died in a training accident on Oct. 23, 1941 at age 29.

William James came to Toronto in 1906 from England and from 1909 until his death was a photographer in and around Toronto. His son, Norman James was also a photographer with his father. Norman was also a photographer with The Toronto Daily Star newspaper.

Innes Van Nostrand has been the Principal of Appleby College since 2012.

Aubrey Turquand was the first Appleby man to make the supreme sacrifice in the Great War. He was born 1896, and was one of Appleby’s original students and attended from Sept. 1911 to Dec. 1914. A noted athlete, he played on the First Rugby (Football), Hockey and Cricket teams, and was captain of all three in 1914. He twice won both the Senior Cross-Country Cup and the Victor Ludorum Trophy. In 1914, he left Appleby to enlist in the infantry where he rose to the rank of Sergeant; however, he reverted to a private soldier in order to get to France. He was wounded twice when he returned to the trenches as Lance-Corporal in a grenade platoon and was killed at Ypres. His name is inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
3rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry Killed in action 13 June 1916, at 19 years of age.

The Alexandra Studios was a Toronto, Ontario-based photographic studio.

The studio was started by Louis J. Turofsky in 1911 and occupied a number of Toronto locations until it ceased operations in 1976. The studio seems to have evolved through a number of name changes, including Alexandre Studios from 1915-1921, and then known as Alexandra Studios from 1922-1953. From 1954-1963 the business was known as Turofsky Photographers. In 1964 the firm again was known as Alexandra Studio, becoming the Alexander (or Alexandra) Studio-Turofsky from 1973 to 1974, after which it appeared to have the name of Alexander Studio.

Photographers employed by the studio included Louis J. Turofsky, Nathan Turofsky, Harold Crellin, and Roy P. Mitchell. It would appear that Louis and Nathan Turofsky no longer were involved with the studio after 1960, after which date Crellin and Mitchell ran the business. From 1973-1974 Crellin was President of the company, with Mitchell as Secretary-treasurer. From 1975 until the closing of the studio in 1976, Mitchell appears to have been the President of the company.