years. In 1845 he was appointed second English master at Upper Canada College and assistant master of the college boarding-house. Later he became first English master, and also taught French and geography

brothers with the social and political élite of Upper Canada. In 1840 he brought his family to Toronto and enrolled Norman in Upper Canada College. From 1842 to 1845 Bethune studied for an arts degree at

, who was of Huguenot descent, was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution where he was a foundation scholar for five years. On 22 Oct. 1832 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and

class family and received a preparatory education at Mill Hill and St Paul’s schools in London. In 1817 he entered St John’s College, Cambridge, where he had a distinguished career as a

, established by Thomas McCulloch*, and in 1884, at the age of 22, entered Queen’s College in Kingston, Ont. After receiving his

with an ma, from King’s College (University of Aberdeen). He arrived in Fredericton in 1811 to take up the post of preceptor at Fredericton Academy. With him came his wife

. George Whitaker, whose parents were Baptists, was educated at Frome Grammar School and Charterhouse School. In 1829 he was admitted to Queens’ College, Cambridge (ba 1833

. Born into a scholarly family, John McCaul received careful early training in White’s School, Dublin, and the Moravian School, Antrim (Northern Ireland), before entering Trinity College, Dublin, in 1820

). After studying at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal from 1870 to 1878, Joseph Blain entered the noviciate of the Society of Jesus in Sault-au-Récollet on 30 July 1878. He pronounced his vows there in

; m. 10 Aug. 1858 Martha Harvey in Montreal, and they had one son; d. there 17 Aug. 1895. Upon graduation from Highbury College

known of Edwin Jacob’s family background but his extensive education suggests a certain level of affluence and social position. In 1811 he entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a college founded in 1516

. Entering the field of medicine in the late 19th century was not an easy task for women. The founding of separate women’s medical colleges in 1883 in Toronto [see Emily Howard

was nominated by the colonial committee of the Church of Scotland as principal of Queen’s College at Kingston, Canada West. This Presbyterian foundation, established to break the monopoly of the Church

proceeded in 1799 to Brasenose College, Oxford, taking his ba in 1803, ma in 1805, a bd in June 1815, and

DALE, SARAH ANN, college matron and Society of Friends (Quaker) minister; b. 16 March 1848 in Pickering Township, Upper

, N.S., 21 Dec. 1878. George McCawley was educated at the University of King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, from which he was

O’BRYAN, GREGORY, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, and college administrator; b. 18 April 1858 in Halifax; d

and Canadian Methodism. After attending high school in St Marys, Upper Canada, Sparling studied at Victoria College, Cobourg. The year 1871 was

Breton Island, where his father held the position of crown surveyor. In 1816 Crawley entered King’s College in Windsor, N.S., and was graduated ba in 1820. He then studied

Bachet; d. 30 June 1901 in Versailles, France. Jean-Marie Gay began classical studies at the Collège de La Roche and completed them