Sir John Beverley Robinson : : Bone and Sinew of the Compact /

Sir John Beverley Robinson : : Bone and Sinew of the Compact / / Patrick Brode.

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John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its devotion to th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Brode, Patrick,
MitwirkendeR:
Oliver, Peter,
O’Brien, Brendan,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1984
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. The Osgoode Society
  • Preface
  • 1. The Loyalist Tradition
  • 2. ‘This Outpost of England’
  • 3. Gentleman of Lincoln’s Inn
  • 4. Public Life
  • 5. Parliamentary Life
  • 6. An Advocate in England
  • 7. ‘He Serves the King, Sir’
  • 8. The Alien Debates
  • 9. ‘Politics I Am Not Fond Of’
  • 10. Tory Twilight
  • 11. A Love of Order
  • 12. Chief Justice, Speaker, and Confidant
  • 13. Rebellion and Reaction
  • 14. The Canada Debate
  • 15. Lord Chief Justice
  • 16. ‘If I Am Right, Thy Grace Impart’
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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