A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time by Rose

to act, in conjunction with the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, in negotiating a treaty with the government of the United States of America in relation to the Canadian fisheries, and the commissioners brought their labors to a close during the month of February, 1888. While in the Nova Scotian legislature, Sir Charles introduced and saw carried through many important measures, which are now bearing good fruit. Among the measures he introduced into the House of Commons at Ottawa, and saw pass into law, we may mention the act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the North-West Territory, the Consolidation Railway Act of 1879, the act granting a charter to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1881, the act of 1884 granting a loan to that company, the Railway Subsidies Acts of 1883 and 1884, and the act of 1884 respecting an agreement between the province of British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada. Sir Charles was appointed by Act of Parliament, in 1862, governor of Dalhousie College, Halifax; and was president of the Canada Medical Association from its formation in 1867 until 1870, when he declined re-election. In October, 1846, he was married to Frances Morse, of Amherst. * * * * * =Inglis, George=, Owen Sound, Ontario, was born at Inglis Falls, three miles from Owen Sound, on the 26th July, 1850. He is the second son of Peter Inglis, who was one of the first pioneers in the town of Owen Sound, having first arrived there in 1843. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Owen Sound Grammar School. Leaving school in January, 1867, he entered his father’s woollen mills, and remained there three years, during which time he thoroughly mastered the details of the business. In 1870 he was put in charge of his father’s office, in the court house, his father at that time holding the position of deputy clerk of the Crown, clerk of the County Court, and registrar of the Surrogate Court, and had charge of the office until 1877, when his father resigned, and he was appointed in his stead. In 1885 he was made local registrar of the High Court, and in 1886 he also received the appointment of deputy registrar of the Maritime Court. In 1879 he was appointed a high school trustee by the county council, which position he has held ever since. At the present time he fills the position of chairman of the Board of Education, and has had the honor of being elected thereto for the last six years in succession. He is the president of the Cricket Club in the town, and also secretary-treasurer of the Curling Club. He takes an active interest in secret and benevolent societies, being a member of the Masonic order, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a pastmaster of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. On account of holding government offices, Mr. Inglis has never taken an active part in politics or municipal affairs. He is a Presbyterian, and a regular attendant at Knox Church, Owen Sound. * * * * * =Partridge, Rev. Francis=, M.A., D.D., Rector of St. George’s Church, Halifax, Secretary of the diocese of Nova Scotia, and late Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, was born at Dursley, Gloucestershire, England, on the 2nd April, 1846. He is a son of Charles Partridge, of the old Gloucestershire family of Partridge, of Wishanger, near Cirencester. The earliest record of this family dates from _temp._ Richard II. Miles Partridge, esquire of the unfortunate Protector, the Duke of Somerset, was knighted for his gallant conduct on the field of Pinkie. William Partridge, the London police magistrate, and Richard Partridge, the noted surgeon, are of the same stock. His mother is Catherine Gilmour, of the family of Gilmour, whose seat is at Craigmillar, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Her grandfather, Colonel James Lyon Gilmour, was quartermaster-general for many years at Quebec. The Rev. Mr. Partridge was educated at Lady Berkeley’s Grammar School, founded in 1300, at Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. He was a foundation scholar from 1855 to 1862, and from 1862 to 1864, tutor in the family of the Rev. Isaac Williams, B.D., a friend of Newman and Pusey, and one of the original writers of “Tracts for the Times,” and closely associated with the Oxford Tractarian movement. During 1864 and 1865 he was classical master at the grammar school at Dursley. In 1865 he matriculated at St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, having been strongly moved to take up missionary work, and expecting to obtain the best training for that purpose at this college. He was mission essay and Whytehead prizeman for Greek Testament in 1866, and also took the first place in final medical examination, in 1867. After finishing his college course, he received the appointment of principal of the county Grammar School at St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick, the duties of which he assumed in