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e_ Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Hodgson, Sir Robert= (1798-1880). Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Educated at Windsor, Nova Scotia, and called to the bar of Nova Scotia and of Prince Edward Island, 1819. Appointed judge of Probate and attorney-general for Prince Edward Island, 1828; president of the Legislative Council, 1840. Appointed chief-justice, 1852, and judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, 1853; resigned both offices to accept the lieutenant-governorship of Prince Edward Island, 1874. Held office until 1879. Died in Charlottetown. =Bib.=: Campbell, _History of Prince Edward Island_. =Holdernesse, Robert D'Arcy, fourth Earl of= (1718-1778). =WM= Wolfe's letter to, 166. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Holland.= =S= Surveyor-general, Upper Canada, 178. =Holland.= =Hd= Revolution in places William of Orange at head of affairs, 7. =Bk= British expedition to, under Duke of York, 13-22. =Holland House.= =Dr= Occupied by Montgomery, 123. =Holmes, B. E.= One of leaders of the Liberal party in Lower Canada, 50. =Index=: =BL= At farewell banquet to La Fontaine, 1851, 354. =Holmes, Charles= (1711-1761). Third in command under Sir Charles Saunders (_q.v._) before Quebec, 1759; commander-in-chief in West Indies, 1760-1761. =Index=: =WM= In command of second British fleet, 75; commands ships above Quebec, 152; movements of his fleet up and down the river, 160, 163, 171. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Woods, _Logs of the Conquest of Canada_ and _The Fight for Canada_; Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_. =Holton, Luther Hamilton= (1817-1880). Entered public life, 1854, as one of the members for Montreal; elected to Legislative Council, 1862; resigned, 1863, and returned to the Assembly as member for Chateauguay, which he represented to the time of his death; accepted portfolio of commissioner of public works in the short-lived Brown-Dorion government, 1858; minister of finance in the Macdonald-Dorion administration, 1863-1864. =Index=: =E= Signs Annexation Manifesto, 81; associated with _Parti Rouge_, 108; adopts less radical views, 134. =B= Enters George Brown's ministry, 102; Brown's letter to, on Confederation, 131; on English views of Canadian politics, 143; opposed to coalition, 160; opposes Confederation scheme, 185; George Brown takes up question of reciprocity with, 192; Brown urges that he be sent to Washington on reciprocity mission, 192; opposed to Brown entering coalition ministry, 19
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