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
=Wrong, Professor George McKinnon, M.A.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in
Gravesend, County of Elgin, Ontario, June 25, 1860, is a son of Gilbert
Wrong, of Aylmer, Ont., and Christina McKinnon. Educated at the
University of Toronto, from which he graduated with the degree of B.A.,
1883; M.A., 1896; also Wycliffe College, Oxford University; took Orders
in the Church of England, 1883, but has since been engaged continually
in Academic work; succeeded in 1894 the late Sir Daniel Wilson, as
Professor of History in the University of Toronto. Was a lecturer on
History and Apologetics and Dean of Wycliffe, 1883 to 1892. Received the
degree of F.R.C.S., 1908. Appointed a member of the Canadian Historical
Manuscript Committee, 1887. Is a Senator of Toronto University, and is
the author of several historical works, among which may be mentioned
“The British Nation, a History” (1903), “The Earl of Elgin” (1905), “The
Review of Historical Publications,” “The Crusade of 1883.” Appointed by
the Canadian Institute a member of the Fleming Electoral Reform
Committee. Has been a Director of Havergal Ladies’ College, Ridley
College and the Working Boys’ Home. Is a member of the Royal Historical
Society, Secretary Champlain Society. In 1886 married Sophia Hume Blake,
daughter of the Hon. Edward Blake, K.C., M.P., and is the father of the
following children: Margaret Christian, born 1887, Edward Murray (1889),
Harold Verschoyle (1891), Humphrey Hume (1894), Agnes Honoria (1903).
Professor Wrong is a member of the York Club, Toronto; The Golf Club and
Savile Club, London, England, and is recognized as being one of the
foremost scholars of the present day.
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