Tamatoa III (c. 1757 – 1831) was the Chief of Raiatea from 1820 to 1831.

Father Bernard Baldwin (1907-1990) was born in Preston, England. He studied at the Apostolic School, Douglas Park, and later at the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington. He was ordained on November 30, 1933. His first appointment was to Eastern Papua, founding mission stations at Milne Bay and the Trobriand Islands. He also contributed a great deal to the islands of Sideia and Basilaki. He spent a total of twenty years in Eastern Papua during which time he wrote numerous articles, mostly on the Trobriand Islands, for Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.

Isaac Neilson Whyte was born on 28 November 1919 in Ulster, Northern Ireland. His family moved to Australia in 1927 and had a dairy farm in Victoria. Neilson served with the Australian Army in 1940-1945 and fought with the Rats of Tobruk. He was captured by the German forces and spent four years as a prisoner of war. He read a lot in custody and began to consider studying theology. On his return to Australia, he studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne and theology at the Presbyterian Theological Hall at Ormond College. He was ordained on 10 March 1952 and commissioned for missionary service.

Neilson married Dr Mary Grace Asche in February of 1951 and in December 1952 they began their mission service in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) with the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions. The Whytes were based in the village of Wintua, South West Bay on the island of Malekula 1952-1957. Neilson and Mary Grace had seven children; the four eldest children spent their early years in Wintua. Neilson spent a lot of time away from Wintua as he was responsible for 17 villages in the region. He also helped bring about a peace agreement between village leaders in Big Nambas territory and a peace house was built to mark the agreement. The 1957 Assembly was held in Wintua and Neilson was inducted as Moderator. Shortly after the Assembly, the Whyte family returned to Australia as Neilson was experiencing some physical ailments associated with his war service. On his return to Australia he went on to serve in parishes at Goodwood, Learmonth and Donald. After years of pain and ill health, Isaac Neilson Whyte died in Melbourne in February 1972 at the age of 52.

Albert Speer was born in 1922 in Goulburn, Australia, and served in New Guinea with 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance from 1942-1945. He served in the Department of Public Health in the Australian Administration of Papua and New Guinea from 1947 until his retirement in 1971, initially as a European Medical Assistant and eventually as acting Director of the Medical Training Division. During the period 1954 to 1957 he was active in exploratory patrols establishing health services in uncontacted and uncontrolled highland areas of Papua. Mr Speer also fostered Sir Albert Maori Kiki, among other children. Mr Speer died in Sydney on 16th April 2014.

Reverend Norman F. Cocks was born in Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom. He went to Hackney and New College, London, and was ordained at Skinner St. Congregational Church, Poole, Dorset on 25 November 1934. His Pastorates in England were Poole, 1934-1940, and High Cross Tottenham, 1940-45. Rev Cocks was then appointed to the post of Australian and New Zealand Secretary of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1970. He transferred to the Anglican Church in Tasmania, was ordained Deacon in St. David's Hobart on 19 October 1970, and was subsequently ordained as an Anglican priest. His portrait is in the "LMS Chronicles" of February 1945 and June 1947.