July 1872 Susan Wiggins in St Eleanors, P.E.I., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 1 May 1924 in Ottawa. Of Huguenot

. 1885) in Chippawa, Upper Canada, and they had three sons and three daughters; m. secondly 1 Dec. 1887 Helen Amanda Mair in Perth, Ont., and they had two daughters; d. 6 June 1925 in

-in-law of one of the Bank of Montreal’s most prominent founders and shareholders, served as a director of this bank from 1830 until 1834 and again from 1835 until his retirement in 1869. In 1837 he

-politicians of the period, John Richardson*; they would have two sons and three daughters. Like his father-in-law, Auldjo took a leading role in

and Albany lumber markets through Boyd, Smith and Company of Peterborough and Irwin and Boyd of Port Hope, the latter run by Mossom Martin’s brother Gardiner and brother-in-law and cousin James Moore

opinions from the chief justice of Lower Canada, Jonathan Sewell*, and the British law officers of the crown, gradually had their effect. To

(1862–70) and the Séminaire de Nicolet (1870–71), and then enrolled at the Université Laval, where he obtained a degree in law in June 1874. Called to the bar in July, he practised for a few months at

. Some time between 1835 and 1838 he immigrated to Upper Canada, and was admitted as a barrister to the Law Society of Upper Canada during the Easter term in 1838. He was to practise law in Toronto at

of the Catholic School Commission in the same city (1905–10). In the spring of 1914 he gave courses in the theory and practice of commercial law at the Association des Femmes d’Affaires de

settled his financial affairs, Mifflin Gibbs rejoined his family later in 1869 and in 1870 entered the law department of a business college at Oberlin, Ohio. In 1871 he moved to Little Rock, Ark.; he was

Hensley began to study law under Robert Hodgson*, a key member of the local “family compact,” attorney general, and president of the Legislative

preponderance of “Law characters” in the house and their tendency to “Enact Such Laws As would best Suit themselves.” Howard was portrayed as a constituency man, and “above all . . . the poor mans

at Boston on 1 Oct. 1713 Elizabeth Knight, who died 17 March 1735/36; there were no children by either marriage; d. London 19 Feb. 1719/20

of elk horns to the Royal Society, which made him a fellow in 1773 for being “well versed in various branches of Science.” He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1775; an

inspired by his ambition to found an agricultural settlement as a method of advancing his fortunes. No large amounts of cheap land were then available in New York, and so Lossing and his brother-in-law Peter

have survived. In Britain hallmarks were a sequence of symbols, required by law, that precisely identified the maker, silver content, assay office, and year. Where such laws did not exist, many

Sainte-Thérèse in Lower Canada. He then studied law, graduating with an llb from Victoria College, Cobourg, Ont., in 1869, and he worked as a journalist in Montreal at Le

later became the Herald’s political correspondent while the legislature sat in Montreal from 1844 to 1849. At the same time he studied law and in 1850 was admitted to the Lower Canadian bar

conservative principles that were apparent in other graduates. He studied law in the office of Stephen

judges such as William Dummer Powell* urged dispensing with the due process of civil law to overawe the disaffected. In July Governor