Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams
- Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams
Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams (June 13 1837 – July 4 1885) was a Canadian businessman, farmer and political figure. He represented Durham East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1879 to 1885.
He was born in Port Hope in Upper Canada in 1837, the son of John Tucker Williams. He studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Edinburgh. He studied law but was not called to the bar. He was president and founder of the Midlands Loan and Savings Company and a director for the Midland Railway of Canada. Williams was captain in the local militia, later becoming lieutenant-colonel. In 1885, he led the Midland Battalion which helped put down the Northwest Rebellion. Shortly after the Battle of Batoche, he became ill and died of fever on a steamboat on the North Saskatchewan River in 1885. A statue was erected in his honour in Port Hope.
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5905 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=3146&s=M Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=760 Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
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