A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, Lieut.-Col., D.S.O.= (Uxbridge, Ont.), son of
George Sharpe, of Suffolk, England, and Mary Ann Simpson, of County
Tyrone, Ireland, born March 13, 1873, at Zephyr, Township of Scott,
County of Ontario. Educated at Uxbridge Public and High Schools, Toronto
University and Osgoode Hall; graduated in 1895, degrees B.A. and LL.B.
Married, August 26, 1903, to Mabel E., daughter of H. A. Crosby and
granddaughter of Joseph Gould, ex-M.P. for North Ontario. Town Solicitor
for Uxbridge for ten years. He lived and practised his profession in
Town of Uxbridge, near the place of his birth, after being called to the
bar and achieved a large measure of success. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe always
took a great interest in the militia, and was formerly a member of the
34th Regiment, in which he attained the rank of Major. On the outbreak
of the war he organized and recruited the 116th Ontario County Battalion
and took it to France. He held a fine record for overseas service,
having won the D.S.O. and having been mentioned in the despatches. It is
said of Col. Sharpe that he was one of the most popular O.C.’s sent from
Canada, and he never missed an opportunity of looking after the
interests of his men. He returned to Canada in the end of May, 1918,
after having seen much hard service, his health impaired and succumbed
in a few weeks to a nervous disorder. He was elected to the House of
Commons in 1898, when he defeated George D. Grant by 200 majority;
re-elected in 1911, when he defeated Major H. M. Mowat, K.C., nephew of
the late Sir Oliver Mowat, by 588; was appointed one of the Ontario
Whips by Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden, prior to the election of 1911, and
was returned by a large majority at the general elections in December,
1917, during his absence at the front. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe took an active
and prominent part in the councils of the Conservative Party after he
became a member of the House, and was recognized as a good debater, with
a full knowledge of National affairs. He was a member of the Albany
Club, Toronto, and the Rideau Club, Ottawa; also a member of the Masonic
Order, Independent Order of Foresters, Sons of England, and Independent
Order of Oddfellows. He held the Ontario championship in tennis for two
years and the undergraduate championship for one year. In religion
Lieut.-Col. Sharpe was a member of the Methodist Church at Uxbridge.
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