200 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

vigorous mind, it was but too apparent, was giving way. He died on the morning of the ztst August, 1875. His body lies interred in the graveyard of St. Peter’s Church.

1879.—We have now to chronicle the death of one who as barrister, editor, politician and judge, took with credit a leading part in the public affairs of the Island. Hon. William H. Pope, District Judge of Prince County, was born at Bedeque in 1825; he studied law in Charlottetown, and was admitted to the Bar in 1847. During an eventful period of the Island’s history, he was elected to a seat in the Legislature as a representative of Belfast District, and a supporter of the old government party. In 1873. on the introduction of Con- federacy, he was the first barrister to receive the appointment of Judge of Prince County. After a severe illness of some twenty days, he died at Summerside, aged 54 years.

The late Governor, Sir Robert Hodgson, was born at Char- lottetown in the year 1798. He was educated at King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and admitted to the Bar in his native place, at the age of twenty-one years. In 1828 he was appointed Attorney General, Advocate General, also Surrogate and Judge of Probate. A year later he was elevated to a seat in the Legislative Council, of which he became President in 1840. On the introduction of responsible government he resigned his various government offices, but on the death of Judge Jarvis, he was raised to the high position of Chief Justice of the Island. On the retirement of Governor Dundas, he was appointed Administrator, and again, on the retirement of Governor Robinson, but in 1874 he received the appointment of Lieutenant Governor, at the expiration of the term of which, he withdrew into private life. He died during September, 1880, aged 81 years.

James Douglas Haszard, too, was born in Charlottetown in the year 1797. He was one of the descendants of a spirited loyalist, who proved his attachment to the monarchical form of government by refusing to take his property, which had been confiscated, on the condition that he should become a dutiful subject of the United States. In the year 1823, Mr. Haszard began business by publishing the Register, and successively the, Royal Gazette, and Haszard’: Gazette, until the year 1858. Previous to the publication of the Register, a total issue of fifty papers sufficed for the colony. Mr. Haszard was ever ready