London Rowing Club took them to the Henley Royal Regatta in 1872 and won every race they entered. The swivel oarlock was invented in 1874 by an American

hesitation about his career, he became a journalist. He worked briefly for the London Advertiser

skulduggery of confidence men in London and Paris when he embarks on a grand tour. As with all five of Harris’s novels, Mr. Perkins is overly dependent on coincidence for the resolution

. 1 June 1843 in London Township, Upper Canada, son of Milner Harrison and Catherine Howard; m. 26 April 1866 Margaret Notman in

an all-party delegation the legislature sent to London in April 1891 to persuade imperial officials to withdraw the bill. In its place, Newfoundland offered temporary legislation for 1891 giving the

and Home Magazine of London, Ont. [see William Weld*], put up a prize for the best three dairy cattle in the province and Jones’s

Nielsen]. His lengthy report, published in Prowse’s History of Newfoundland . . . (London, 1895), deplored the “alarming” decline of the fishery before the commission began its

fund, and was a delegate to the General Assembly in Canada and the Pan-Presbyterian councils in Edinburgh, London, and Glasgow. Hay’s political

and advised Mountain that he was returning to England. On 1 Oct. 1854 Hellmuth became organizing secretary in London for the Colonial

HEMMING, EDWARD JOHN, lawyer, gentleman farmer, politician, magistrate, and office holder; b. 30 Aug. 1823 in London, England

complicated paperwork and the expense of cartage facilities, and acquired a collecting service; Hendrie and Shedden obtained a monopoly. Having at first served Hamilton, London, and other points on the Great

encountered by chance three surveyors for Close Brothers and Company of London, a British financial house that had undertaken to build the White Pass and Yukon Railway from Skagway to Whitehorse, Y.T. As a

contribution to science, a paper on glacial drift, to the Geological Society of London. While there he met Peter Mitchell*, a member of the New

to continue his education. After receiving his diploma in surgery, he stayed in Europe and spent time in London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna

. Robert Edwards Holloway arrived in Newfoundland in June 1874 to assume the duties of principal of the St John’s Wesleyan Academy. Having attended the Wesleyan Training College in London and

ministry of Sandfield Macdonald and Dorion resigned. In the autumn of 1862, Howland and Sicotte had joined representatives of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in London to discuss with the Colonial Office the

United States frequently, and attended the International Congress of Women in London in 1899. At home, however, she began to encounter set-backs. Although her school had received the first provincial grant

. H. Hunter (Toronto, 1895; repr. in microfiche ed., 7 fiches, Honolulu, [1981]). Who’s who (London), 1910.

Alexander Innes and Elsbeth Fordyce; m. 30 Sept. 1873 Helen Gerrard, widow of Jonathan Date, in Stratford (London), England; they had no children; d. 16 July 1903 in Sydney, N.S., and

IRONSIDE, ROBERT, businessman, livestock breeder, and politician; b. November 1854 in London, Upper Canada, one