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Lemuel Allan Wilmot

WILMOT, Lemuel Allan, Canadian statesman, born in the county of Sunbury, New Brunswick, 31 January, 1809; died in Fredericton, 20 May, 1878. He was educated at New Brunswick university, Fredericton, became an attorney in 1830, and two years later was called to the bar of New Brunswick. In 1834 he was elected to parliament by acclamation for (he county of York. From the first he espoused the side of the Liberals, opposing the Family compact party, and advocating the principles of responsible government. He soon became the acknowledged leader of the Reformers of his province. In 1836 Mr. Wilmot went to England as a delegate with William Crane on the subject of crown revenues and the civil list. The colonial secretary, Lord Glenelg, received the delegates cordially and drafted a bill granting the reforms that they asked" but the lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, Sir Archibald Campbell, withheld his approval, and tendered his resignation. The delegates were again despatched to England, with an address to the king, by whom they were favorably received. Sir Archibald Campbell's resignation was accepted, the civil-list bill became law, and a vote of thanks to the diplomats was passed by the legislature. Mr. Crane was called to the executive council, and Mr. Wilmot became a queen's counsel. In 1844 he accepted a seat in the executive council, without portfolio" but when the lieutenant-governor, Sir William Colebrooke, without consulting his advisers, appointed his son-in-law to the office of provincial secretary, Mr. Wilmot, with three colleagues, resigned his place in the cabinet. In 1847 Earl Grey, the colonial secretary, declared that the members of the executive council should hold office only while they possessed the confidence of a majority of the people. In 1848 the New Brunswick house of assembly passed a resolution approving of Earl Grey's despatch, after a long and spirited debate. Mr. Wilmot, who made the great speech of the occasion, was called on to form a government. He accepted the task, and his cabinet became a coalition ministry, with liberal tendencies. As premier and attorney-general he became identified with the consolidation of the criminal laws and the municipal law. In 1850 he attended the International railway convention at Portland, Maine. In the same year he visited Washington in a similar capacity, on the subject of reciprocity. In 1851-'68 he was a puisne judge of the supreme court of New Brunswick, during which time he employed the interval of leisure at his command in lecturing and in forwarding the cause of education, and benevolent and religious institutions. He was elected a member of the senate of the University of New Brunswick, which gave him the degree of D. C.L. When the question of union arose in 1865, Judge Wilmot was ready to espouse the side of the Unionists, but took no very active part in the contest. After the confederation was consummated he was selected to preside over his province as the first native governor. This office he held from 27 July, 1868, until 14 November, 1873, when he received a pension as a retired judge. In 1875 he became second commissioner under the Prince Edward island purchase act of that year, and he was also named one of the arbitrators in the Ontario and northwest boundary commission, but death prevented him from serving in the latter capacity.--His cousin, Robert Duncan, Canadian statesman, born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 16 October, 1809, is the son of John M. Wilmot, for several years a member of the provincial assembly. The son, at the age of five years, left his native town with his father to reside at St. John, where he attended school. On reaching manhood he engaged in shipping and milling. Afterward he went to Liverpool, England, where he resided until 1840, when he returned to St. John. He entered the parliament of his province in 1846, and held his seat for fifteen years. He was a strong Protectionist, and an uncompromising advocate of the greenback system of banking. In 1849 he was mayor of St. John. In 1851 he was asked to enter the New Brunswick government, and he filled the office of surveyor-general from that year until 1854. In 1856-'7 he held the office of provincial secretary in the Wilmot-Grey administration. In 1865 Mr. Wilmot opposed the scheme of union, and with his colleagues he succeeded in defeating the administration" in the new government he held his old portfolio. He attended the Colonial conference in London, England, on the union question in 1866-'7, and when, in 1867, the union was consummated, Mr. Wilmot was called to the senate of Canada by royal proclamation. He holds a patent of rank and precedence from the queen as an ex-councillor of New Brunswick. On 8 November, 1878, on the formation of Sir John Macdonald's ministry, he was sworn a member of the privy council of Canada, without portfolio. On the same day he succeeded David Christie as speaker of the senate. This government adopted the policy of protection to Canadian industries, which Mr. Wilmot aided in formulating, in February, 1880, he resigned the presidency of the senate to accept the lieutenant-governorship of New Brunswick, which post he held until 1885.

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