STOCKTON, Alfred Augustus, Canadian lawyer, born in Studhohn, King's co.. New Brunswick, 2 November, 1842. His great-grandfather, Andrew Hunter Stockton, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, fought on the royal side in the war of the Revolution, and afterward settled in New Brunswick. Mr. Stockton was graduated at Mount Allison college in 1864, and was admitted to the bar of New Brunswick in 1868, and became a member of the New Brunswick legislature in 1883. He is secretary of the board of governors of Mount Allison college, an examiner in political economy and constitutional history, and also an examiner in law at Victoria university, president of the New Brunswick historical society, and register of the court of vice-admiralty of the province. He has received the degree of LL. B. from Victoria university, that of Ph. D. from Illinois Wesleyan university, and that of D. C. L. from Mount Allison college in 1884. He edited "Rules of the Vice-Admiralty Court in New Brunswick" (St. John, 1876), and "Berton's Report of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick," with copious notes (1882).