Thomas Kirkpatrick

Thomas Kirkpatrick (December 25, 1805 – March 26, 1870) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He represented Frontenac in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative; Kingston's MP Sir John A. Macdonald was then Prime Minister.

Biography

He was born at Coolmine House, Clonsilla, Co. Dublin in 1805, the son of Alexander Kirkpatrick (1749–1818), of Coolmine House and the ancestral seat of the Kirkpatricks, Drumcondra House, Co. Kildare. His mother, Marianne (1769–1835), was the daughter of George Sutton (1737–1800), Alderman and Sheriff of Dublin. He came to Upper Canada in 1823. He studied law with his wife's cousin, Christopher Alexander Hagerman, and was called to the bar in 1828. He practised law at Kingston, where he was also customs collector.

In 1838, he was elected as the first mayor of Kingston, but was later disqualified because he was not a resident at the time; in 1847, he was elected mayor again. In 1846, he was named Queen's Counsel.

He married Helen Fisher, one of the two daughters of Judge Alexander Fisher M.P., of Adolphustown, Ontario and his wife Henrietta McDowell, daughter of Colonel McDowell of Marysburgh, Prince Edward County, Ontario. His brother, Judge Stafford Kirkpatrick, married his wife's sister, Henrietta. He was the father of Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick, who was elected to the same seat in the House of Commons after his father's death and was named lieutenant-governor of Ontario in 1892. He died in Kingston in 1870 while still in office. Kirkpatrick is buried at Cataraqui Cemetery.

Thomas Kirkpatrick (disambiguation)

Thomas Kirkpatrick was a Canadian politician and lawyer.

Thomas Kirkpatrick may also refer to:

See also

Thomas Kirkpatrick (New York)

Thomas Kirkpatrick was an American politician from New York.

Life

He lived in Albany, New York, and was an alderman, elected in the Tenth Ward in 1843, and Overseer of the Poor.

In 1853, he was elected, on the Whig ticket, Inspector of State Prisons, and was in office from 1854 to 1856.

He was Warden of Auburn State Prison from January 1860 to January 1864.

In 1871, he was again elected State Prison Inspector, this time on the Republican ticket. He was in office from 1872 to 1874, but was defeated for re-election in 1874.

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