Smith Goldwin 1823-1910 Born In Reading England Educated At Eton

and Oxford; elected a fellow of University College, London, 1846; regius

professor of modern history at Oxford, 1858-1866; honorary professor of

English and constitutional history at Cornell, 1868-1871. Came to

Canada, 1871; and thereafter made his home in Toronto. Elected a member

of the Senate of Toronto University; and was first president of the

Council of Public Instruction. =Index=: (William Lyon Mackenzie era) His opinion of ackenzie,

3; on the Family Compact, 10; on revolution, 18; on Mackenzie, 27; view

of parliamentary government under Constitutional Act, 54, 55. (George Brown Era) His

connection with Canada First movement, 235; elected president of

National Club, 237; attacked by the Globe, 237-238; his reply,

238-239. (Sir John A Macdonald era) Supports Canada First party, 226; on Red River Rebellion,

240; his belief that "Annexation to United States was written in the

stars," 283; favours commercial union, 292, 293, 294. =Bib.=: Works:

Three English Statesmen; Lectures on the Study of History; Canada

and the Canadian Question; Cowper; Essays on Questions of the Day;

A Trip to England; Life of Jane Austen; The Moral Crusader;

Oxford and Her Colleges; Shakespeare the Man; Guesses at the Riddle

of Existence; Irish History and the Irish Question; The United

Kingdom; The United States; Labour and Capital. For biog., see

Morgan, Can. Men; Dent, Can. Por.; Denison, The Struggle for

Imperial Unity; and his Reminiscences, edited by T. Arnold Haultain.