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See also:BLAKE, See also:EDWARD (1833– ) , Irish-See also:Canadian statesman, eldest son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Hume Blake of See also:Cashel See also:Grove, Co. See also:Galway, who settled in See also:Canada in 1832, and there became a distinguished lawyer and See also:chancellor of See also:Ontario, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:October 1833 at See also:Adelaide in See also:Middlesex See also:county, Ontario. Educated at Upper Canada See also:College and the university of See also:Toronto, Blake was called to the See also:bar in 1856 and quickly obtained a See also:good practice, becoming Q.C. in 1864. In 1867 he was elected member for See also:West See also:Durham in the Dominion See also:parliament, and for See also:South See also:Bruce in the provincial legislature, in which he became See also:leader of the Liberal opposition two years later. On the defeat of See also:John Sandfield See also:Macdonald's See also:government in 1871 Blake became See also:prime See also:minister of Ontario, but resigned this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office the same See also:year in consequence of the abolition of dual See also:representation. He declined the leadership of the Liberal party in the Dominion parliament, but, having taken an active See also:part in bringing about the overthrow of See also:Sir John Macdonald's See also:ministry in 1873, joined the Liberal See also:cabinet of See also:Alexander See also:Mackenzie, though without See also:portfolio or See also:salary. Impaired See also:health soon compelled him to resign, and to take the voyage to See also:Europe; on his return in 1875 he rejoined the cabinet as minister of See also:justice, in which office it See also:fell to him to take the, See also:chief part in framing the constitution of the supreme See also:court of Canada. Continued See also:ill-health compelled him in 1877 again to seek See also:rest in Europe, having first exchanged the portfolio of justice for the less exacting office of See also:president of the See also:council. During his See also:absence the Liberal government was driven from See also:power by the elections of 1878; and Blake himself, having failed to secure re-See also:election, was for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time without a seat in parliament. From 188o to 1887 he was leader of the opposition, being succeeded on his resignation of the position in the latter year by Mr (afterwards Sir) See also:Wilfrid See also:Laurier. In 1892 he became a member of the See also:British See also:House of See also:Commons as an Irish Nationalist, being elected for South See also:Longford. But he did not fulfil the expectations which had been formed on the strength of his colonial reputation; he took no very prominent part in debate, and gave little See also:evidence of his undoubted oratorical gifts. In 1907 he retired from public See also:life. In 1858 he had married
See also:Margaret, daughter of See also:Benjamin Cronyn, first See also:bishop of See also:Huron.
See John See also:Charles Dent, The Last See also:Forty Years: Canada Since the See also:Union of 1841 (2 vols., Toronto, 1881); J. S. Willison, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party (2 vols., See also:London, 1904).
End of Article: BLAKE, EDWARD (1833– )
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