Clement Francis Cornwall

Clement Francis Cornwall ( born June 18, 1836 in Bagpath, Gloucestershire, England; † February 15, 1910 in Victoria, British Columbia) was a Canadian politician, farmer and judge. He represented from 1871 to 1881 BC in the Senate, after which he was until 1887 the third Lieutenant Governor of the province.

Biography

The son of an Anglican pastor was educated in private schools and studied at Oxford from Trinity College and Magdalene College. In 1862, Cornwall from the Bar Association of the Inner Temple admitted as a lawyer. He decided in the same year along with his brother Henry to emigrate to British Columbia when he learned of the Cariboo Gold Rush. Near Ashcroft they bought a plot and began to breed cattle. She also operated a sawmill, a roadhouse and a flour mill.

Cornwall practiced seasonal as a lawyer from 1864 to 1885, he served as justice of the peace. His lifestyle corresponded to that of an English country gentleman, including the organizing of horse racing and fox hunting was. From 1864 to 1866 he represented the newly created Parliament of the Colony of British Columbia electoral district Hope - Yale -Lytton. In 1871 he was for a short time at a second time to the Parliament, as the colony of the Canadian Confederation joined and gained the status of a province.

Prime Minister John Macdonald appointed Cornwall in December 1871 one of the first two senators from British Columbia. In Parliament in Ottawa, he was for ten years the Group of the Conservative Party. Governor General Lord Argyll sworn him on 20 July 1881 as Vice Governor. This representative office he held until 28 March 1887.