. With journalist Thomas Stewart Lyon (brother-in-law of his first wife and a lifelong friend) and William Alexander

. 1931) in Stanstead, Que., and they had three daughters, one of whom died shortly after birth; d. 1 March 1929 in Winnipeg and was buried in St John’s cemetery

until 1 Jan. 1939. He was declared bankrupt on 15 March, and on the 30th the provincial government enacted the Law authorizing an inquiry into the affairs of the Title Guarantee and Trust

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him; d. 13 Feb. 1855 in Pictou, N.S. Thomas Dickson studied law under his brother-in-law Samuel George William

time. Promoted lieutenant in April 1731, he was appointed to the council, along with his brother-in-law, Lieutenant Edward Amhurst, and Ensign John

Fitzgerald Uniacke was one of 12 children, several of whom were to become famous in the province. On 1 July 1796 he received a commission as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Halifax Militia Regiment

what is now Saint John, studied law, and, through his marriage, joined a network of prominent families, although he himself had only limited influence. His official positions included lieutenant-colonel

. One of the few jurists of his generation to study abroad, Langelier was named associate professor in the faculty of law at the Université Laval on his return in 1863 and became a full professor in 1865

marine in 1875. Discharged for near-sightedness, he came to Canada, where he tried to farm, without success. He landed in Winnipeg in June 1880 and was articled to a law firm. In December 1885 he founded

Gugy*]. Called to the bar on 12 Feb. 1844, he practised law in Montreal for four years, and was soon interested in landed property. On 22 Sept. 1848 he bought the sub-fief of Hope (Saint

. William Grant studied first at Elgin, Scotland, and subsequently at King’s College in Aberdeen. Then he did Roman law for two years at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Admitted to Lincoln’s Inn

.” Through David Allison*’s lectures on international law and English constitutional history, Weldon and Russell were introduced to the study of law

. 1792 he began articling with his brother Antoine-Isidore, who was also a notary. He finished his clerkship on 1 Nov. 1797 but had to wait until he came of age to apply for a commission to

. 1816 certified Gilchrist’s “qualifications for the degree of M.D.” Although Gilchrist did not graduate, he apprenticed in Goffstown, N.H., probably with Dr Jonathan Gove, his future father-in-law

lived in a fashionable part of Toronto, he was forced to resume working for a living. By the early 1850s he was reading law with John Hillyard

board of governors from 1881 to 1886, become part of the reconstituted “faculty of civil law” in 1890, and act as chancellor from 1912 to 1922. King’s would award him an honorary

shorthand reporter. He graduated llb from the National University law school, and was admitted an attorney of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick in June 1881. He was

Séminaire de Saint-Joseph des Trois-Rivières, but later left his native city to study law at the Université Laval in Montreal. After he had earned his degree and been admitted to the bar of the province of

John River (N.B.) following the American revolution. Young Beardsley studied law in Saint John at the office of Ward Chipman* and was