Alfred Gilpin Jones
The Hon. Alfred Gilpin Jones | |
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8th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia | |
In office July 26, 1900 – March 15, 1906 | |
Monarchs | Victoria Edward VII |
Governors General | The Earl of Minto The Earl Grey |
Premier | George Henry Murray |
Preceded by | Malachy Bowes Daly |
Succeeded by | Duncan Cameron Fraser |
Personal details | |
Born | Weymouth, Nova Scotia | September 28, 1824
Died | March 15, 1906 Halifax, Nova Scotia | (aged 81)
Political party | Liberal |
Alfred Gilpin Jones, PC (September 28, 1824 – March 15, 1906) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and eighth Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.[1]
Born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, the son of Guy Carleton Jones and Frances Jones, he was a merchant and established his own firm, A. G. Jones and Company, in 1872.
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In 1867, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Halifax. One of 18 members elected of the Anti-Confederation Party, he became an independent in 1869 and was defeated in 1872. He was re-elected in 1874 but was forced to resign in 1878 due to an alleged breach of the Independence of Parliament Act. He was re-elected in the resulting 1878 by-election and was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence from January to October. He was defeated in the 1878 election and in 1882. He was re-elected in 1887 as a Liberal but was defeated in 1891. From 1900 until his death in Halifax in 1906, he was the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia.
Family
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Jones was married twice: to Margaret Wiseman Stairs, the aunt of John Fitzwilliam Stairs, in 1850 and to Emma Albro in 1877. Jones and his first wife, Margaret Wiseman had a daughter Alice, who was a writer known under her nom de plume Alix John. Alice Jones was born and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and studied languages in France and Italy. She wrote for the Toronto Week, and contributed a serial, "A Hazard of Hearts," to Frank Leslie's Monthly. She published a novel "The Night Hawk" in 1902 and "Bubbles We Buy" in 1903.[2][3]
References
- ^ McConnell, Brian. "The Hon. Alfred Gilpin Jones & the Loyalists of Nova Scotia" (PDF). United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada.
- ^ Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 183.
- ^ Alice Jones - image
- Alfred Gilpin Jones – Parliament of Canada biography
- Beck, J. Murray (1994). "Joines, Alfred Gilpin". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- 1824 births
- 1906 deaths
- Anti-Confederation Party MPs
- Canadian people of Welsh descent
- Independent MPs in the Canadian House of Commons
- Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia
- Liberal Party of Canada MPs
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
- Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- People from Digby County, Nova Scotia
- People of United Empire Loyalist descent