Blake William Hume 1809-1870 Born In Ireland Educated At Trinity
College, Dublin, and emigrated to Canada in his youth. During the
Rebellion in 1837, paymaster of the Royal Foresters. Called to the bar
of Upper Canada, 1838. A member of the Legislative Assembly for East
York, 1847, and solicitor-general in the La Fontaine-Baldwin
administration, 1848-1849. In 1850 chancellor of Upper Canada, retiring
March, 1862. =Index=: (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Speaks before Reform Association, Tor
nto,
223; elected for York, 279; solicitor-general, 1848, 284; absent in
Europe, 284; on Rebellion Losses Bill, 314-315; quarrel with MacNab,
315; burnt in effigy in Toronto, 318; raised to the bench, 337. (Lord Elgin era)
Returned in elections, 1847, 50; solicitor-general for Upper Canadian
first La Fontaine-Baldwin Cabinet, 53; father of Edward Blake; attacks
Family Compact; bitter conflict with Sir Allan MacNab, 69. (George Brown Era) Speaks
before Toronto Reform Association, 1811, 21; burnt in effigy, 36; in the
fight for responsible government, 261. (Sir John A Macdonald era) Challenged by John A.
Macdonald, 36. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) Solicitor-general, debate on Rebellion Losses Bill,
489. =Bib.=: Dent, Can. Por., and Last Forty Years; Read, Lives of
the Judges; Cyc. Am. Biog.