Aylmer Matthew Whitworth Baron 1775-1850 Entered The Army 1787
served in the West Indies, in Holland, and in the Peninsula under
Wellington. Reached the full rank of general, 1825, and in 1830 became
the governor-general of Canada; returned to England, 1835. =Index=: (General Brock era)
Present with Brock at battle of Egmont-op-Zee, 17. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Pays official
salaries from the war chest, 21. (Louis Joseph Papineau era) His influence did not extend beyond
Quebec--hostility towards French-Canadians, 39-40; his conciliatory
attitude, 75-76; at open war with the Assembly, 77-78; remonstrates with
Assembly, 86; refuses to interfere in factional strife in Montreal, 87;
held responsible by Papineau and his friends for cholera epidemic,
88-89; bitterly attacked in the Ninety-Two Resolutions, 95; attacked by
Papineau, 100, 105; criticizes the Ninety-Two Resolutions, 106. =Bib.=:
Morgan, Cel. Can.; Dict. Nat. Biog.