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nition of his services, created K. C. M. G., 1878. =Index=: =T= Member of New Brunswick government, 33, 43; resigns, 1862, 90; member of Mackenzie ministry, 90; a Liberal, 91; declines chief-justiceship, 93, 94; resigns with his government, 103-104; opposes Quebec scheme, 116-117, 118-119. =H= Leader of Anti-Confederate government in New Brunswick, 179. =B= His ministry resigns, owing to action of Lieutenant-Governor Gordon and the Legislative Council on Confederation question, 188. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._; Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_. =Smith, Goldwin= (1823-1910). Born in Reading, England. Educated at Eton and Oxford; elected a fellow of University College, London, 1846; regius professor of modern history at Oxford, 1858-1866; honorary professor of English and constitutional history at Cornell, 1868-1871. Came to Canada, 1871; and thereafter made his home in Toronto. Elected a member of the Senate of Toronto University; and was first president of the Council of Public Instruction. =Index=: =Mc= His opinion of Mackenzie, 3; on the Family Compact, 10; on revolution, 18; on Mackenzie, 27; view of parliamentary government under Constitutional Act, 54, 55. =B= His connection with Canada First movement, 235; elected president of National Club, 237; attacked by the _Globe_, 237-238; his reply, 238-239. =Md= Supports Canada First party, 226; on Red River Rebellion, 240; his belief that "Annexation to United States was written in the stars," 283; favours commercial union, 292, 293, 294. =Bib.=: Works: _Three English Statesmen_; _Lectures on the Study of History_; _Canada and the Canadian Question_; _Cowper_; _Essays on Questions of the Day_; _A Trip to England_; _Life of Jane Austen_; _The Moral Crusader_; _Oxford and Her Colleges_; _Shakespeare the Man_; _Guesses at the Riddle of Existence_; _Irish History and the Irish Question_; _The United Kingdom_; _The United States_; _Labour and Capital_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; Dent, _Can. Por._; Denison, _The Struggle for Imperial Unity_; and his _Reminiscences_, edited by T. Arnold Haultain. =Smith, Sir Henry= (1812-1868). Born in London, England. Came to Canada with his parents; studied law and called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1836. Entered Parliament, 1841, as member for Frontenac; appointed solicitor-general, 1854, in MacNab-Morin ministry, and held same office in succeeding governments till 1858. Elected Speaker, 1858. Knighted, 1860, on the occasion of
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