See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:SPARROW See also:THOMPSON (1844-1894)
, See also:Canadian jurist and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Halifax, Nova See also:Scotia, on the loth of See also:November 1844, of Irish descent
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At fifteen he entered a lawyer's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and in 1865 was called to the provincial See also:bar: In 1871 he incurred much odium by leaving the Methodist See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, in which he had been prominent, and becoming a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, a See also:change dictated solely by religious motives
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In 1877 he was elected to the See also:local legislature for Antigonish as a Conservative, and in 1878 became See also:attorney-See also:general
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In May 1882 he became premier, but in See also:June was defeated at the general See also:election, though retaining his own seat, and in See also:July was made a See also:judge of the provincial Supreme See also:Court
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In See also:September 1885, he was appointed See also:minister of See also:justice in the Federal See also:cabinet, and soon after was elected member for Antigonish
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In 1886 he successfully defended in the Federal See also:parliament the See also:hanging of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Riel (q.v.), which had greatly angered the See also:French Roman Catholics; in 1887-'888, together with Mr See also:Joseph See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
Chamberlain and See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Tupper, he arranged a See also:Fisheries Treaty with the See also:American commissioners, which was afterwards thrown out by the See also:United States See also:Senate
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During the following years he defended the See also:government with See also:great skill in various politico-religious disputes, and in November 1892 succeeded Sir See also:John See also:Abbott as premier of See also:Canada
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The length of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time during which the Conservatives had held office had gathered around many parasites, and See also:Thompson was compelled to See also:face charges, some of them true, against prominent Conservatives
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He promptly announced his intention to lop the mouldering branches away," and would probably have reorganized his party, but on the See also:lath of See also:December 1894 he dropped dead at See also:Windsor See also:Castle, a few minutes after having been sworn in by See also:Queen See also:Victoria as a member of the privy See also:council
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Though a quiet See also:man who did not advertise, few Canadian statesmen have done so much honest and solid See also:work
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In 1892 he finished the codification of the Canadian criminal See also:code; in 1893 his firmness and knowledge as See also:British arbitrator at See also:Paris on the See also:Bering See also:Sea dispute between Great See also:Britain and the United States were of great service
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His See also:Life has been written by J
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C
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See also:Hopkins (See also:Toronto, 1895)
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