Elizabeth Goldring currently holds the title of Honorary Reader at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick.

She is best known for authoring Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (2019), which won the Apollo 'Book of the Year' Award, and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (2014), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History. 

Goldring is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Bruce Redford is currently Professor Emeritus in Baroque & 18th Century Art at Boston University.

Redford took a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University (1971-1975) and a B.A. in Medieval Studies from King's College, Cambridge (1975-1977), before going on to Princeton for a PhD in English Literature (1977-1981). He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he taught English for 17 years, the last eight of them as a full professor. In 1998 he moved to Boston University, as a University Professor and Professor of English. In 2003 he was also appointed Professor of Art History, and he has served in a variety of other administrative appointments during his time at Boston.

One of Redford's primary fields of interest has been the works of Samuel Johnson, and he has served on the editorial committee of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson since 1985. Most significantly, he edited the 5-volume Letters of Samuel Johnson (1992-1994) for Princeton and Clarendon Press.  

Joseph W. Reed took his BA, MA and PhD from Yale University. In 1960 he arrived at Wesleyan, where he stayed until his retirement in 2004. During his time at Wesleyan, he served as chair of the English Department and of the Sesquicentennial Committee, and he also helped found the university's American Studies and Film Studies.

Reed was married to author and fellow professor at Wesleyan, Lillian Hyde 'Kit' Craig (1932-2017), with whom he had several children, including author Kate Maruyama.

Son of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (d. 1746), and Anne Livingston. He married, firstly, Rebecca Lockhart, daughter of Alexander Lockhart, Lord Covington, with whom he had a daughter. He married, secondly, Isabella Carr (1747-1808) with whom he had twelve children.

In 1758, he succeeded his maternal great-aunt, Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll as the 15th Earl of Erroll, also changing his surname from Boyd to Hay. 

Daughter of Sir William Carr of Etal (d. 1777). In 1762 she married James Hay (d. 1778), 15th Earl of Erroll,  with whom she had twelve children.

Boyd was the son of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1705-1746), and Anne Livingston (d. 1747).

He fought on the Jacobite side with his father at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, while his elder brother James (1726-1778) and twin-brother William (1728-1780) both fought on the Government side. Their father was captured and beheaded at the Tower of London, while Charles escaped and went into hiding on Arran before going into exile in France for about 20 years until pardoned. While waiting for his execution at the Tower, the 4th Earl wrote to his eldest son, James, the following about Charles who had by then gone into hiding:

Use all your interest to get your brother pardoned and brought home as soon as possible, that his circumstances, and the bad influence of those he is among, may not induce him to accept of foreign service, and lose him both to his country and his family. If money can be found to support him, I wish you would advise him to go to Geneva, where his principles of religion and liberty will be confirmed, and where he may stay till you see if a pardon can be procured for him. 3

Following his return to Scotland, Boyd lived for the most part of his time in Aberdeen and at Slains Castle north of Aberdeen with his older brother and their respective wives and children. According to Boswell, during his stay on Arran in 1745-46, Boyd "had found a chest of medical books left by a surgeon there, and had read them till he acquired some skill, in consequence of which he is often consulted."

He married, firstly, Jeanne Antoinette Wyandt, a French lady whom he met during his exile, with whom he had at least two children. He married, secondly, Anne Lockhart, a sister of his brother's first wife and daughter of Alexander Lockhart of Covington.