Sir Robert Laird Borden was born in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia and worked as a teacher and a lawyer before being elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1896. He became the 8th Prime Minister of Canada in 1911. He was knighted in 1915 and retired from politics in 1920 and died in 1937.

John Butler Yeats was born in Ireland in 1839. He worked briefly as a lawyer before becoming an artist and painter in 1867. In 1907 he moved to America and passed away in 1922. He was also the father of poet William Butler Yeats.