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in the forefront of his profession. In 1861 he was, in conjunction with Hon. Edward Palmer and Hon. John Longworth, entrust- ed with the revision of the laws of the col- ony, and in 1878, with Judge Alley, was appointed to revise and consolidate the laws. In 1873 he was appointed Judge of the Privy County Court. During his tenure of office he rendered judgment in several thousands of cases. Of these but two were appealed and in both instances his decisions were unanimously confirmed by the Supreme Court.

He also found time in his busy life to gratify a deep seated love of knowledge. He was three times (in 1863, 1866, I870) elect- ed an honorary member of the well known Athenaeum Club of London; the number of such honorary members being limited to fif- teen. His acquaintance with literary men was wide and included such names as Thack- eray, Dickens, Dean Alford, Tyndall, Hux— ley, the Earl of Enniskillen, Lord Stanley, Earl Derby and others. Just previous to his death he received a presentation volume from Max Muller, of Oxford, with whom he corresponded. Of the early history of his own colony he was an enthusiastic student and it is a matter for sincere regret that in consequence of his early demise, the result of deep study and long years of careful re- search, has been lost.

He died at Summerside on the 7th of October, 1879, in the fifty-fifth ymr of his age.

He married on the 2d of January, 1851. Helen, daughter of Thomas DesBrisay, Es- quire, and granddaughter of the Rev. The- ophilus DesBrisay, who was appointed Rec— tor of Charlotte in I 775. They had eight children, the eldest son, Joseph Pope,

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C. M. G., rendering valued service as Under Secretary of State for Canada.

There are many men of distinction na- tive to the Island, who, either here or else- where, have given high examples to man- kind, and the records of whose useful lives run like veritable threads of gold through the chronicles of their times and localities. Of these the names appear in these pages only incidentally in connection with the his— tory they have helped to make and the serv- ices they have rendered. Among them are Sir William MacDonald, the greatest educational benefactor Canada has yet had, whose native home is Prince Ed- ward Island, but who is now an hon- ored citizen of Montreal; Hon. George Coles and Hon. Edward Whelan, who in the political history of fifty years ago played a prominent part, grappling with the question of landlordism and tenantry, and securing responsible government, universal suffrage and free public schools; Sir Louis H. Davies. the first Prince Edward Is- land Judge of' the Dominion Supreme Court and one of the eminent jur- ists of the present day. He was formerly Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Do- minion Cabinet; David Laird, prominent as a journalist and member of the Dominion Cabinet; Archbishop O’Brien, who was a cultured gentleman and rose to eminence in the Roman Catholic Church; Robert Harris, who became president of the Royal Acad- emy of Art in Montreal, and is an artist of considerable renown; and Dr. J. G. Schur- man, the son of a Bedeque farmer and now the justly celebrated president of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York.