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Henry Sadleir was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1796, and first came to Kingston as a British Officer in 1817. He married Martha Herchmer of Kingston and after tours of duty elsewhere returned to live in Kingston in 1837. They had three children Charles Anderson Sadleir, Jane Anderson Daleir and Martha Herchmer Sadleir. Although settling in Kingston, Henry Sadleir continued to hold an interest in Irish affairs for the rest of his life.

In Kingston Sadleir was active in the Militia, St. George's Church, municipal affairs (he served as an alderman) and on friendly enough terms with Sir John A. MacDonald to be asked for a loan.

Controversy however, loomed large in Sadleir's life. He frequently changed residences - at one time living at Heathfield; in 1848 he took part in a duel (neither participant was killed); and there were problems with his children and their respective marriages resulting in Sadleir calling in a note he held on his son-in-law William Allan Geddes and having his daughter Jane's household furnishings sold.

After carefully writing his will in April 1860, appointing Thomas Kirkpatrick and the Rev. Edward Bower of Barriefield as executors, Sadleir shot himself.

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John Watkins, hardware merchant and philanthropist, was born at Wormsley, Hereford, England 1789 and died at Kingston, June 19, 1876. His wife Elizabeth Strange, was born at Albany, New York, June 14, 1813 and died at Kingston, June 7, 1864.

Watkins was in Kingston as early as 1819 when he leased property on King Street just south of Princess from Henry Cassady. In 1824, Watkins contracted to build a home on that location. Watkins developed other property on King Street but his commercial premises was at #71-73 Princess Street. Watkins did business there as John Watkins and Company, Importers of Hardware, Cutlery and Dealers in Ship Chandlery, Oils, etc. Watkins also had a partnership with Thomas Dennis Harris, a Toronto iron monger from 1832-1838, but in Kingston he was a partner and joint trader as iron monger with Samuel Muckleston from 1834-1853, at which point Muckleston took over the business.

When Watkins died he left part of his estate to family members, but he also left money to three Anglican parishes in Kingston, the poor of St. George's, his native parish in England, Queen's College - where he also established scholarships, Kingston General Hospital, the Orphan's Home, the House of Industry and his servants.

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet.

Norman Platt Lambert was born at Mount Forest, Ontario, in 1885 and educated at the University of Toronto. After attaining his B.A. he entered a career as a newspaper correspondent and worked as a staff-writer for the Totonto Globe from 1909-1918. From 1918 to 1922 Senator Lambert served as Secretary of the Canadian Council of Agriculture based in Winnipeg after which followed a term in the grain and flour business (1922-1931). In 1932 he became Secretary of the National Liberal Federation and in 1938 was appointed to the Senate.He died in 1965.

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Earl W. Van Blaricom, a barrister and solicitor, was born in Belleville, Ontario. There, he attended Albert College from 1903 to 1907. He graduated from Queen's University with an MA in Biology in 1912 and he obtained his LL.B. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1916. He was appointed King's Counsel in 1929. A veteran of the First World War, he enlisted with Queen's 50th Battery in March 1916, and served with this until, then the 52nd Canadian Field Artillery, until July 1919. He married Vera Kathleen Van der Water (Arts 1919) on 12 June 1920. They had two children, Verna Merle and Lawrence Stickney.

Van Blaricom opened his law office, Van Blaricom, Hamilton & Woolliams, in Tisdale, Saskatchewan in 1948. He retired to Kelowna, British Columbia in 1957. He passed away in 1980, predeceased by his wife in 1973.

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