John Arthur Roebuck,British politician,was born at Madras,in India. He was raised in Canada,and moved to England in 1824,and became intimate with the leading radical and utilitarian reformers. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1832 to 1847,and MP for the Sheffield constituency from 1849. He took up a general attitude of hostility to the government of the day,whatever it was,which he retained throughout his life. He twice came to public prominence:in 1838,when,although at the time without a seat in parliament,he appeared at the bar of the Commons to protest,in the name of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada,against the suspension of the constitution of Lower Canada;and in 1855,when,having overthrown Lord Aberdeen's ministry by carrying a resolution for the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the mismanagement in the Crimean War,he presided over its proceedings.
Prince Arthur,Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served as Governor General of Canada,the tenth since Canadian Confederation and the only British prince to do so.
Arthur Sturgis Hardy,was a Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served as the fourth premier of Ontario from 1896 to 1899.
John Babington Macaulay Baxter was a New Brunswick lawyer,jurist and the 19th premier of New Brunswick.
Peter John Veniot,was a businessman and newspaper owner and a politician in New Brunswick,Canada. He was the first Acadian premier of New Brunswick.
Paschal Canice Mooney is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a former member of Seanad Éireann.
Robert Henry Mooney was a politician in Manitoba,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1953.
Sir Arthur William Buller was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament,who in his early career served as head of a commission of inquiry into education reform in Lower Canada.
Colonel George Clingan was a physician,soldier and politician in Manitoba,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1922,as a member of the Liberal Party.
Arthur is a community located just north of Highway 6 and Wellington Road 109 in the township of Wellington North,Ontario,Canada. Formerly an independent village,Arthur was amalgamated into Wellington North on January 1,1999.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams was a Canadian businessman,farmer and political figure. His statue stands in front of the town hall of Port Hope,Ontario.
Frank"Lucky" Tower is the subject of an urban legend that said that he was a stoker who survived the sinking of RMS Titanic,RMS Empress of Ireland,and RMS Lusitania. There is no evidence that anyone was involved in all three disasters,and there was no one with the name of Frank Tower on the crew list on any of these vessels' respective voyages;however,there was one survivor and passenger named Frank Tower from Lusitania,and a William Clark who survived both the Titanic and Empress of Ireland sinkings.
John James Carrick was an Ontario real estate promoter and political figure. He was always referred to by his initials as J.J. Carrick. Carrick served as mayor of Port Arthur in 1908. He represented Port Arthur in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1911 and Thunder Bay and Rainy River in the House of Commons of Canada from 1911 to 1917 as a Conservative member. He stepped aside in 1917 for his erstwhile protégéDonald McDonald Hogarth,but when the Port Arthur Liberal Association refused to accept Hogarth as the Unionist Party candidate,he gave way to Conservative Francis Henry Keefer who won the seat in the 1917 Canadian federal election for the Unionists.
Frederick Oliver Robinson was an Ontario machinist and political figure. He represented Port Arthur in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from August 1943 to November 1951 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member.
William Fraser McCurdy was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia,Canada. He represented Victoria County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1878 to 1886 as a Liberal member.
David McCurdy was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia,Canada. He represented Victoria County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1873 to 1878 as a Liberal member.
Arthur Mooney was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
John James Mooney better known as J. D. Mooney was an American jockey and trainer who won the 1924 Kentucky Derby on Black Gold and the 1929 King's Plate on Shorelint. Mooney's riding career lasted for 10 years. His record included 261 victories,258 seconds,and 280 thirds. He was in the money 30 percent of the time. Mooney is a member of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame. After his career as a jockey,Mooney became a trainer. He trained 1962 Canadian Horse of the Year Crafty Lace.
Douglas Francis "Doug" McArthur is an educator and former political figure in Saskatchewan,Canada. He represented Regina Lakeview from 1978 to 1982 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.
Joseph Fraser Mooney was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1970 to 1984. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
