GEORGE EULAS FOSTER (1847– )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 732
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:GEORGE EULAS See also:FOSTER (1847– )
, See also:Canadian politician and financier, was See also:born in New See also:Brunswick on the 3rd of See also:September 1847, of U.E
.
Loyalist descent
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After a brilliant university career at the university of Brunswick, at See also:Edinburgh and See also:Heidelberg, he returned to See also:Canada and taught in various See also:local See also:schools, eventually becoming See also:professor of See also:classics andhistory in the local university
.
In 1882 he became Conservative member for See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:County, N.B., in the Dominion See also:parliament, and in 1885 entered the See also:cabinet of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Macdonald as See also:minister of marine and See also:fisheries; in 1888 he became minister of See also:finance, which position he held till the defeat of his party in 1886
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A careful and even brilliant financier, and a keen debater, he became known as a strong believer in See also:protection for Canadian See also:industries and in preferential See also:trade within the See also:British See also:empire
.
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