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OBITUARIES, CANADIAN. 



pomtmcnc greatly to the satisfaction and benefit 

 of these courts. lie had not long, however, re- 

 sumed his duties when sickness overtook him, 

 and laid him aside. After some months of 

 dreadful suffering, caused by disease of the heart, 

 he expired in the forty-ninth year of his age. 



May lli/t. BAEBER, JONATHAN, Esq,, M. D., 

 was born in 1784, in England, and practised 

 medicine there as a member of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons, at Scarboro', and afterwards 

 in London, very successfully, till about 1820, 

 when he came to America and resided in the 

 United States, chiefly from his health having 

 been much impaired by devotion to his profes- 

 sion. Shortly after he gave up his profession, 

 and devoted himself wholly to literary pursuits, 

 and more especially to elocution, of which he 

 was for the remainder of his life probably the 

 best living teacher in America. As such he was 

 occupied for several years in Yale and Harvard 

 Universities. In 1832 he became intimate 

 with Dr. Spurzheim, and adopted his views, 

 with all his natural enthusiasm, as to phrenol- 

 ogy and its kindred subjects of education, &c. 

 After lecturing extensively on these subjects in 

 the United States, he went to Montreal in 1836, 

 where he became well known. Soon afterwards 

 he returned to England, where he spent some 

 years, returning to Canada in 1842. About 

 this period his attention was drawn incidentally 

 to homoeopathy, and he became convinced by 

 observation of its truth and importance. Im- 

 pressed with this conviction, he resumed med- 

 ical practice about 1845, and only abandoned it 

 gradually under pressure of age and failing 

 health. On giving up practice and resuming 

 (from intuitive activity, so to speak, and for sake 

 of occupation) the teaching of elocution and ora- 

 tory, he was named professor of oratory in 

 McGill University, Montreal, some few years 

 ago, and withdrew from those duties only with- 

 in the last two years, when he retired to the 

 country, living with Mr. Dunkin, M. P. (his son- 

 in-law) till his death. 



May lth. BEGG, Mr. WILLIAM, died at the 

 residence of Dr. Cole, on the Huron Road, 

 Township of Goderich (Canada), aged about 70. 

 Mr. Begg was the son of a sister (Isabella) of 

 the illustrious Scottish poet, Robert Burns. His 

 father, who was in business, intended that he 

 should become a physician, and he accordingly 

 pursued his medical studies for some time ; but 

 owing to the death of his father leaving the 

 family in straitened circumstances, he did not 

 take out his diploma, but devoted himself to 

 teaching, to support his mother and sisters. 

 About thirty years ago he went to the Huron 

 Tract, under the auspices of the late Dr. Dun- 

 lop, and was for more than twenty years in the 

 common schools of the Township of Goderich, 

 until his health became too feeble for that pur- 

 suit. During the last nine or ten years of his 

 life he had the good fortune to find a comforta- 

 ble and congenial home in the household of Dr. 

 Cole; at first in the capacity of tutor, and after- 

 wards as a valued friend. He suffered for many 



years from chronic rheumatism of a peculiarly 

 painful character, which he endured with unva- 

 rying cheerfulness. He possessed all the natural 

 intelligence and the goodness of heart which 

 might have been expected from his parentage, 

 with extensive literary acquirements and a 

 pleasing talent for communicating information. 



May 27th. GRAHAM, Sir EDWARD, Bart, 

 of Esk, County Cumberland, England, who 

 died at Montreal, was the 9th baronet, and suc- 

 ceeded his father, Sir Robert Graham, in Janu- 

 ary, 1852. The first baronet was created in 

 1829, by king James I., but the family claims 

 descent from the renowned Grame, who, anno 

 404, commanded the army of Fergus II., 

 and was Governor of Scotland in the minority 

 of his grandchild, Eugene II. From the time 

 of this eminent man the Graemes are to be 

 found in the record of Scotland enjoying the 

 very highest influence. There are at present 

 three baronetcies in the family. The Grahams 

 of Esk ; the Grahams of Morton Conyer, County 

 of York ; the Grahams of Netherby, County 

 of Cumberland. The eighth baronet of Esk, 

 father of the baronet last deceased, was one of 

 the claimants to the earldom of Annandale and 

 Harttill, as descendant of Sir John Graham 

 (2d Bart.) and Lady Mary Johnston. The 

 title descends to Robert James Stuart, eldest 

 son of the deceased, now Sir Robert Graham, 

 tenth baronet, who was born in 1845. 



June \7th. KIRK, Maj. WILLIAM ALPHOXSO, 

 of the 57th N. Y. volunteers, who died in 

 Virginia while serving in the Federal army, 

 had formerly served in the British army, hav- 

 ing held the rank of captain in Her Majesty's 

 16th regiment. He left the regiment at Que- 

 bec, but continued to reside there for several 

 years, and was connected for some time with 

 the city press. He was a man of considerable 

 talent, and had many warm personal friends in 

 that city. He had served in the Federal army 

 since the breaking out of the civil war. 



July 6th. BEXJAMIX, GEORGE, Esq., was 

 born in the last year of the last century in 

 England, and lived for some time in Liverpool, 

 engaging there in commercial pursuits. He 

 travelled in a business capacity through a great 

 part of the continent, visiting Italy in the 

 south and Russia in the north, and later in his 

 early manhood came to New Orleans, where 

 he resided for some time. "While resident 

 there he married a Charleston lady of English 

 parentage. About the year 1830 he went to 

 Canada, spending a short time in Toronto, and 

 afterwards settling in Belleville, where he con- 

 tinued to reside until the time of his death. 

 He for a considerable time conducted the " In- 

 telligencer," the oldest paper in that town. 

 On the introduction of municipal institutions 

 by Lord Sydenham, he became Warden of 

 Hastings, and continued to be so for many 

 years. He was also for several years registrar 

 of the county. In 1856, on the return of Mr. 

 Murney to the Upper House, he succeeded him 

 as member for North Hastings, sitting for that 



