Sir John Beverley Robinson : bone and sinew of the compact /
John Beverley Robinson (1791-1863) was one of Upper Canada's foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its devotion...
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Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] :
Published for the Osgoode Society by University of Toronto Press
[1984]
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287r1m |
书本目录:
- Foreword
- Preface
- The Loyalist tradition
- 'This outpost of England'
- Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn
- Public life
- Parliamentary life
- An advocate in England
- 'He serves the king, sir'
- The alien debates
- 'POLITICS i am not fond of'
- Tory twilight
- A love of order
- Chief Justice, speaker, and confidant
- Rebellion and reaction
- The Canada debate
- Lord Chief Justice
- 'If I am right, thy grace impart'
- Epilogue.