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The pre-eminent responsibility of the Civil or private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor was management of correspondence: ensuring that it was duly acknowledged, referred onward or filed. Closely related were the duties of receiving and acknowledging addresses, petitions, memorials and applications for office; transmitting messages and public documents to the Legislature; and referring petitions to the appropriate public offices for opinion or advice prior to submission to the Executive Council. The responsibilities of the Civil Secretary for general correspondence were transferred to the Provincial Secretary and Registar in 1839, following a study of both offices (the Report of which is published in the Journals of the Legislative Assembly, 1839, Appendix, volume 2 part 1, pages 310-321).

In managing communications for the Lieutenant Governor, the Civil Secretary maintained a distinction between the correspondence to which replies were made in the governor's name and that to which the Secretary responded on his behalf. Despatches to colleagues and letters to senior officials were signed by the governor. Letters to invididuals were written on the governor's behalf by the Secretary. The governor's despatches are found in RG 7; the Civil Secretary's correspondence is divided between RG 7 and RG 5. As a result of the transmission of files from one office to another for action or advice, documents relating to a case may be found with the Secretaries' correspondence (RG 5, A 1 or C 1), with submissions to the Executive Council (see RG 1), or with records retained in the governor's office (see RG 7, notably series G 14, G 18 and G 20).

Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions.

At a very early age, Richardson was apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost his first wife along with their five sons, and eventually remarried. With his second wife, he had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue running the printing business. While his print shop slowly ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately became one of the more popular and admired writers of his time.

Richardson knew leading figures in 18th-century England, including Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding. He was also close friends with the eminent physician and behmenist George Cheyne and with the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At the special request of William Law, Richardson printed various poems by John Byrom. In the London literary world, he was a rival of Henry Fielding, and the two responded to each other's literary styles in their own novels.

His name was on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list established by the Pope containing the names of books that Catholics were not allowed to read.

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Richard Sankey Malone was born in 1909 in Owen Sound, Ontario, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Willard Park and Mildred Villiers (Sankey) Malone. He attended the University of Toronto Schools and Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario. He was engaged in newspaper work from 1927 to 1978 and was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery from 1934 to 1935 He also had a distinguished career in the Second World War. He enlisted in 1939 and was Staff Secretary to the Minister of Defence, 1940. After graduation from the Staff College, he was Staff Captain with 5 Armoured Division and subsequently Brigadier Major in the First Division. In Italy he was Personel Liaison Officer to Field Marshall Montgomery. Later he was Assistant Director of Public Relations, 21st Army Group and in charge of the Canadian Public Relations of the Normandy campaign. He headed the Canadian Mission to General MacArthur's Headquarters. He was among the first to enter Paris, Brussels and Tokyo. He was present at the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 1, 1945. In 1946 he was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Canada in 1946. He was author of "Missing from the Record" (1946);" The Muddle in Defence" (1969), "Organizing for defence: Some comments on the Government White Paper" (1962), "A World in Flames, 1944-1945" (1984) and "A Portrait of War, 1939-1943" (1983).

William Keppel was a politician, rather than a soldier as the rest of his family. He served as a member of parliament for many years and held the office of Under Secretary for War in 1878. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Canada, 1854-1856, in combination with office of Civil Secretary. Member of British House of Commons, 1857-65 and 1868-74. Styled as "Viscount Bury" from 1851-91, when he succeeded to the title of 7th Earl of Albemarle. Author of " Exodus of the Western Nations," 1865.

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William Lyon Somerville, ARCA, FRAIC, FRIBA was a distinguished Toronto architect born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1886. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of America (New York City) and began his career with the New York firm of Dana and Murphy. He had a long, energetic and successful career based in Toronto, practicing for a substantial period under the well-known firm name Somerville, McMurrich and Oxley. Mr. Somerville was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He received an honourary Bachelor of Laws degree form McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.