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eeds Draper in leadership of party, 28. =Bib.=: Dent, _Last Forty Years_. =Sherwood, Captain Justus.= =Hd= Commissioner for exchange of prisoners with Vermont, 202; confers with Ira Allen, 204; applies for lands in Eastern Townships, 267. =Sherwood, Levins Peters= (1777-1850). Born in St. John's, Lower Canada. Removed to Upper Canada; studied law and called to the bar, 1803. Elected to the Assembly for Leeds, 1821; Speaker of the Assembly, 1822; Speaker of the Legislative Council, 1841. Appointed judge of the Court of King's Bench, 1825. =Index=: =Sy= Retires with pension, 252. =Mc= Quarrels with Judge Willis, 131-133. =Bib.=: Read, _Lives of the Judges_. =Shirley, William= (1693-1771). Born in Preston, England. Called to the English bar; removed to Boston, where he practised his profession. Governor of Massachusetts, 1741-1745; planned the successful expedition against Louisbourg. Resided in England, 1745-1753. One of the commissioners at Paris to settle the boundaries of Nova Scotia, 1750. Again appointed governor of Massachusetts, 1753; commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America. Lieutenant-general, 1759; afterwards governor of the Bahama Islands. Returned to Massachusetts, 1770, and resided at Roxbury until his death. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._; Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_; Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_. =Shore.= =W= Resigns from New Brunswick government, 72, 116. =Short, Judge.= =E= Member of Seigniorial Court, 187. =Short Administration.= =Md= Formed by George Brown, 85; lasted less than forty-eight hours, 85. =Short Hills Affair.= =Mc= Mackenzie's connection with, 440. =Shortt, Adam= (1859- ). Born at Kilworth, Ontario. Educated at Queen's University, and at Edinburgh and Glasgow. Appointed assistant professor of philosophy at Queen's University, 1885; lecturer in political science, 1889; professor of political science, 1892. In 1908 became a member of the Historical Manuscript Commission; and civil service commissioner the same year. =Index=: =BL= On Baldwin's Municipal Corporation Act, 1849, 296. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Sicotte, Louis Victor= (1812-1889). Born in St. Famille, Boucherville, Quebec. Studied law, and called to the bar of Lower Canada, 1838. Entered public life, 1852, as member for St. Hyacinthe. Elected Speaker of the Assembly, 1854, and held the office until 1857; appointed to the Executive Council as commissioner of crown lands,
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