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Frances Ridley Havergal (1836 - 1879)

Religious poet and hymn writer, Havergal also wrote hymn melodies, religious tracts and works for children. Take My Life and Let it Be (1874) is one of her best known hymns. Havergal College, a private girls' school in Toronto established in 1894, is named after her.  

Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)

Widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns is famous for his lyrical poetry and re-writing of Scottish folk songs, including Auld Lang Syne (1788), To a Mountain Daisy (1786) and Tam O' Shanter (1790).  His birthday on January 25 is still celebrated worldwide as “Robbie Burns Day”.  

Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)

Essayist and critic, Lamb is best known for his Essays of Elia (1823) and the children's book, Tales from Shakespeare (1807), which he wrote with his elder sister, Mary. 

Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)

Essayist, poet, playwright, and politician, Addison’s most famous work is the play, Cato, a Tragedy, which was first produced in 1713.  Many of his most popular essays were published in The Spectator, a daily, which Addison co-founded in 1711. 

Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861 - 1922)

A pioneering woman journalist and novelist, Duncan is best known for her 1904 novel, The Imperialist, a witty portrayal of life in a small Ontario town (Brantford). In the mid-1880s, she became the first female journalist to be employed full-time by the Toronto Globe, where she wrote under the byline of Garth Grafton.

Thomas

Possibly commemorating American novelist Frederick William Thomas (1806-1866); or American dramatist Augustus Thomas (1857-1934) or Edward Thomas (1878–1917), an Anglo-Welsh novelist, essayist and poet, the window certainly is NOT named for Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) who was born in the same year that Weston Public Library opened. 

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)

Novelist, poet and travel writer, Stevenson’s most famous works are his adventure novels, Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886), and his horror story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

William Kingsford (1819-1898)

Chiefly a surveyor and an engineer, Kingsford has a place in literature for his 10-volume History of Canada (1887-1898).