BLAKE, SAMUEL HUME

 John A. Macdonald to appoint Samuel Blake to a vice-chancellorship in the Court of Chancery, leaving

Association, but in the election that year he was defeated by Samuel Merner*. The following year Young entered the Ontario legislature for Brant North

Blake, the federal Liberal minister of justice, Lash, a Liberal, was invited to join the Department of Justice in Ottawa. Named chief clerk on 16 May 1876, he succeeded Hewitt

Holmes’s other achievements was his role on a multi-denominational committee, headed by Samuel Hume Blake, which

1865, and it resulted in a major defeat of the confederate forces under Samuel Leonard Tilley*. Costigan’s victory was short-lived

Blake, in the election of 1882 and defeated Samuel Merner*, the Conservative mp for Waterloo

 1840s. In December 1854, in partnership with Samuel

the issue of corruption, which had carried a number of prominent Liberals, among them Samuel Hume Blake and