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"Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) was born in Hamilton, in what was then Canada West. He took all his higher education in Montreal, and was qualified for both teaching and the law. He chose law and rose rapidly in the profession, becoming in due course, like Routhier, a judge first as Recorder of the City of Montréal and later to the Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada). He wrote both learned legal works and poetry, and his fame as a writer won him election as a Fellow of the Royal Society which Routhier had helped found." (Government of Canada Web site)

• Abbot, Leonard D. Ernest Howard Crosby: A Valuation and a Tribute. Westwood, Ma., 1907.
• Crosby, Ernest Howard. Broad-cast. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1905.
• --. Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. 3rd edn.: London: F.R. Henderson, 1901.
• --. Soul of the World and Other Verses. Privately Published, 1908.
• --. Swords and Plowshares. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902. London: Grant Richards, 1903.
• --. War Echoes. Philadelphia: Innes & Sons, 1898.
• Whittaker, Robert. "Tolstoy's American Disciple: Letters to Ernest Howard Crosby, 1894-1906." TriQuarterly (Winter 1996/97): 210-50.

David Mills was born in Palmyra, Orford Township, in southwestern Ontario, on March 18, 1831, the child of Nathaniel Mills, one of the first settlers in the area, whose farm was on lot 70, on Talbot Road (now King's highway 3), just north of Lake Erie and west of Clearville. After being educated at the University of Michigan, Mills became superintendent of schools for Kent Country from 1856 to 1865. In December 1860 he married M. J. Brown, the "Mary" to whom he addresses "I Feel I'm Growing Old" thirty-eight years later. He embarked then on a public career by publishing The Present and Future Political Aspects of Canada (1860) and next The Blunders of the Dominion Government in connection with the North-West Territory (1871). Mills was elected as a Liberal to the Parliament of Canada for the Electoral Division of Bothwell from 1872 to 1878 and again in 1887. During this period, 1876-78, he was appointed Minister of the Interior, and a member of the Privy Council. During a period out of office, in 1883, he was called to the Ontario Bar. This enabled him to serve as legal counsel before the Privy Council in 1884 on defining the north-west boundary of Ontario. Ontario made him Queen's Council in 1890. Mills was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1896 after failing to win election. He died in 1903.

• Gemmill, John Alexander. The Canadian Parliamentary Companion, 1897. Ottawa: J. Durie, 1897. 79-80. CIHM 32962
• Hodges, Joyce. "Orford Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada."
• Vipond, Robert C. "Mills, David." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. 1901-1910 (Volume XIII). University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2000.

Born October 23, 1786, Barron Field married Jane Carncroft in 1816 and became Supreme Court Judge, Sydney, in February 1817. He published the first book of verse in Australia in 1819.

• Barron Field's Memoirs of Wordsworth. Ed. Geoffrey Little. Sydney: Sydney University Press for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1975. PR 5888 .F5 Robarts Library
• Field, Barron. First Fruits of Australian Poetry. Sydney: for private circulation, 1819.
• Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales. Ed. Barron Field. London: John Murray, 1825. Fisher Rare Book Library shel 0614