ROSAMOND, BENNETT

councillor and school trustee and was reeve of Lanark when he was nominated in 1872 to stand as a Reformer in the provincial by-election in Lanark North, where he defeated Bennett

mp Bennett Rosamond. Stairs appears to have named the only child of his second marriage after Rosamond’s mother. He was survived by six of his eight children and his wife, who died in 1963 in