Charles Carpenter Bompas, a sergeant at law, and Mary Steele Tomkins; m. 7 May 1874 Charlotte Selina Cox*; they had no children; d

Chabrand, baker, and Marguerite Roussel; m. 1 Oct. 1768 Margaret Henry, and they had eight children, at least five of whom survived childhood; d. 28 June 1794 at Montreal, Lower

 1790 and on 12 June of the following year he was ordained a Church of England clergyman. On 1 July 1791 he was invested as president of King’s College

. c. 1737 near Knocklofty (Republic of Ireland), son of Michael O’Donel and Ann Crosby; d. 1 April 1811 in Waterford (Republic of Ireland

performed in public with equal success as a violinist, from at least 1833, in musical and dramatic evenings usually organized by himself. The editor of Le Fantasque, his brother-in-law Napoléon

to the Studley estate. In 1780 Croke took up the study of law at the Inns of Court, and in 1786 was called to the bar. However, as he later stated, “although I had studied the theory of the law, I

£1,000. Palmer had apparently not intended to practise law on Prince Edward Island, but after arriving there he decided that the opportunity was too

Garbuttsville (Garbutt), N.Y., eldest son of Adam Charlton and Ann Gray; m. 1 Nov. 1854 Ella (Ellen) Gray in Charlotteville Township, Upper Canada; they had no children; d. 11 Feb. 1910 in

legislature and the British government put off till later. On 1 Nov. 1800 Milnes sent the home secretary, the Duke of Portland, a long dispatch

PEARCE, WILLIAM, surveyor, civil engineer, public servant, and statistician; b. 1 Feb. 1848 in Dunwich Township, Upper

privately, over the broad and arbitrary powers given to the military under a new militia law [see François Baby

election of John Willson* in 1809. Markle obviously shared the broad concerns of the whig tradition, especially hostility to martial law and

-Marie in Montreal. He graduated in 1870 and went on to study at the law faculty of McGill College, where he stood first in Roman law and second in the history of law. He articled in the office of Antoine

. 1 June 1754 in Princess Anne County (Virginia Beach), Va, son of Jonathan Saunders and Elizabeth –; m. 16 Feb. 1790, in London, Arianna Margaretta Jekyll Chalmers, daughter of

, François-Damien, also practised law, and was the professional partner of the politician. Cartier, baptized on the day of his birth at Saint-Antoine-sur

end of Rue Bonaventure. The ties between them may have been of a business nature, but were perhaps cemented by the fact that Carbray’s sister-in-law was married to Nicholas Knight Connolly, a partner of

1798, Cogswell appears to have quickly built up a flourishing law practice, benefiting from a scarcity of professional competition as well as from the bustle of business created by litigation concerning

of St John’s. Although the once mighty migratory fishery was rapidly dwindling, the antiquated anti-settlement laws remained formally in effect, and Newfoundland lacked many of the institutions of

purchases, his brother-in-law George Crookshank* becoming his deputy as commissary. In the intervening four years he was often frustrated by a

help his ailing father’s business. With his father’s death in 1874 and his own marriage two years later, his stay was prolonged. Unable to study law at Dalhousie because of family responsibilities, he