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SIR WILLIAM MULOCK (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:MULOCK (1843– )  , See also:Canadian statesman and jurist, was See also:born at See also:Bond See also:Head, See also:Ontario, on the 19th of See also:January 1843, the son of T . H . See also:Mulock, M.D . From 1882 to 1905 he was a prominent member of the Liberal party in the Federal See also:house; postmaster-See also:general from 1896 to 1905, and See also:minister of labour from 1900 to 1905 . He introduced many improvements into the Canadian postal service, and in 1898 in See also:face of much opposition induced the Inter-Imperial Postal See also:Conference to adopt the principle of See also:penny See also:postage within the See also:British See also:Empire . In 1905 he resigned See also:office, and was appointed See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:exchequer See also:division of the High See also:Court of the See also:province of Ontario . From 1881 to 'goo he was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university of See also:Toronto, and was largely responsible for the success of the See also:movement leading to the federation between that See also:body and the See also:Victoria University (Methodist) .

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