Gerald Philip Lovett was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the 3rd of November 1946. He was christened in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the 19th of November 1946. He is the son of Algernon Philip Lovett and Marion Lillian Kean. He died on the 30th of May 2020. He married Janice Lillian Wilson on the 20th of August 1966 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was born on the 26th December 1945 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the daughter of Albert Stephen Wilson and Lillian Ethel Parker.