Biografía
He was the first solicitor in Vancouver BC.
He was Captain of the English Rugby team in 1874. When he moved to New Zealand he was credited with introducing the game there.
He married Isabella Maud Snow there.
They came to Vancouver in 1888.
He lived at Seaton Street just west of Burrard.
He was appointed as legal advisor to the CPR and was appointed as the City's first Solicitor.
He was appointed as the first president of the BC Rugby Union in 1889.
He tried farming in an area near Agassiz known as Hamersley Prairie.
He purchased land in the lower Lonsdale area and subdivided the it into lots. First Chairman of Union Steamship Company of British Columbia Ltd. And Solicitor of the City of Vancouver.
In 1906 he returned to England and was elected as member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in 1910-18.
Servicio militar
He was appointed as a Lieutenant Colonel during the Maori Wars.
He commanded an artillery battery in the Forst World War.
He retired in 1918 due to ill health.
Lugares nombrados
The North Vancouver ferry St. George was named for him.
Referencias
- Rushton, Gerald (1980)
- Kluckner, M. (1993)
- Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press.
