Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy
- Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy
Infobox Person
name=Thomas George Shaughnessy
caption=Thomas George Shaughnessy circa 1910
birth_date=birth date|1853|10|6|df=y| birth_place=Milwaukee, Wisconsin
death_date=death date and age|1923|12|10|1853|10|6|df=y| death_place=Montreal, Quebec
Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy (6 October 1853 – 10 December 1923) DCL, LLD, KCVO, FRCI, was an American-born railway administrator who rose from modest beginnings as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad (a predecessor of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) to become the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, serving in that capacity from 1899 to 1918. In recognition of his stewardship of the CPR and its contributions to the war effort during the Great War, Shaughnessy was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1916 as Baron Shaughnessy, of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada and of Ashford in the County of Limerick,.
Shaughnessy was born in Milwaukee to Thomas Shaughnessy, of Limerick, Ireland and married Elizabeth Bridget Nagle in 1880 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. The Shaughnessys' had two sons (William James Shaughnessy served as captain and adjutant of the Duchess of Connaught’s Irish-Canadian Rangers; second Baron of Shaughnessy) and three daughters.
Shaughnessy House, his home in Montreal, was declared a national historic site in 1974 and is now part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The surrounding district is named Shaughnessy Village. [cite web |url=http://shaughnessyvillage.homestead.com/histeng3.html
accessdate=2008-03-30 |format=HTML |title=L'Association du Village Shaughnessy Village Association ]
Titles and Honours
* Order of the Sacred Treasure of the 2nd class Japan, 1907
* Knight of Grace, Order of the Hosp. of St. John of Jerusalem in England, 1910
References
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7967 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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