Williams, Arthur Trefusis Heneage

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Trefusis_Heneage_Williams
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Born at Penryn Park, Port Hope in Upper Canada in 1837, a member of the Williams family of Caerhays and Burncoose. He was the eldest son of John Tucker Williams and his wife Sarah, daughter of Judge Thomas Ward (1770–1861) of Port Hope. He studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Edinburgh before travelling throughout Europe. He studied law but was not called to the bar, instead he ‘delighted in calling himself a farmer’, managing Penryn Park, the estate he’d inherited from his father. He was president and founder of the Midlands Loan and Savings Company and a director for the Midland Railway of Canada, which had a terminus in his hometown.
    • In politics, he represented Durham East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1879 to 1885.
    • Williams was captain in the local militia, later becoming lieutenant-colonel. In 1885, he led The Midland Battalion which helped put down the North-West Rebellion. Shortly after the Battle of Batoche, he became ill and died of fever on a steamboat on the North Saskatchewan River in 1885. 
  • Great Grandson to United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=6699
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39543500/arthur_trefusis_henege-williams