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Note: For details, click <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37777&query=sewell">HERE</a> > And also <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38326&query=sewell%20AND%20quebec">HERE</a> for some of his political rivalry. BIOGRAPHY: {Hon} Jonathan Sewell (III), L.L.D. was just nine years old when he left Massachusetts for England in 1775 with his mother and father and brother Stephen. He was a student at the Grammar School of Bristol and at Brasenose College in Oxford. Jonathan came to New Brunswick in 1785 and was appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada in 1808. He received an honorary LL.D degree from Harvard University in 1832. Jonathan was a member of the Anglican Church, played the violin and was fluent in French. SEWELL, Jonathan, Canadian jurist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1766; died in Quebec, Canada, 12 November, 1839. He was the son of Jonathan Sewall, attorney-general of Massachusetts, who, about 1777, adopted the English form of the name. He was educated in the grammar school at Bristol, England, and was sent to New Brunswick in 1785 to study law with Ward Chipman After his admission to the bat" he practised for a year in St. John, and then removed to Quebec, where he soon attained a high professional position. In 1793 he became solicitor general, in 1795 attorney-general and judge of the court of vice-admiralty, and from 1808 till 1838 chief justice of Lower Canada. The question of boundaries between the. Dominion government and Ontario was settled in accordance with a decision rendered by him in 1818. He held the office of president of the executive council from 1808 till 1829, and that of speaker of the legislative council from 9 January, 1809, till his death, tie went to England in 1814 to answer complaints that were made against the rules of practice that he enforced in his court, which charges were dismissed by the privy council. While there Judge Sewell was the original proposer of Canadian federation, publishing a "Plan for a General Federal Union of the British Provinces in North America" (London, 1815). The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1832. He was the author of an " Essay on the Judicial History of France so far as it relates to the Law of the Province of Lower Canada" (Quebec, 1824).--His son, Edmund Willoughby, clergyman, born in Quebec, Canada, 3 September, 1800, received a classical education in Quebec and in English schools, studied for clerical orders, and was ordained a priest of the Church of England on 27 December, 1827. He was incumbent of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Quebec, and an assistant minister of the cathedral till 1868.--Jonathan`s grandson, William Grant, journalist, born in Quebec in 1829: died there, 8 August, 1862, was educated for the bar, but preferred journalism, and in 1853 removed to New York city and became translator and law reporter for the " Herald." He was afterward connected for six years with the New York "Times," becomin _Spoken at the Opening of the Quebec Royal Theatre, February_ 15, 1832. Ye sons of pity, whose kind acts proclaim How much you glory in true English fame, In fame which rests on deeds of solid worth And kindred feelings for the peopled earth: Ye too, fair dames, whose daily conduct shows How much ye feel in heart, for others woes Who by compassion led, have hither come To grace these walls and soften mis`rys doom, We bid you welcome all--and what you see [_Looking around the House_] Thus dedicate to you and charity [_Bowing to the audience_] By the kind bounty which you now bestow You will assuage the pangs of human woe, To infant suffering and to aged grief You will afford prompt solace and relief, The famished penitent who stole for bread Snatched from his wants will once more raise his head The CHAPTER III. 311 sickly wretch upon his bed of straw Will pine no longer, but will quickly draw From your resources, the comfort he requires To sooth his pains, and quench a fever`s fires; And houseless strangers will no longer meet Their fete in storms, and perish in the street. See also, Sewell`s ownership of the <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=J2a-R9JYxesC&lpg=PA256&vq=bedard&dq=%22Union%20Hotel%22%20quebec%20sewell&hl=fr&pg=PA256&ci=141,802,825,725&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.ca/books?id=J2a-R9JYxesC&pg=PA256&img=1&zoom=3&hl=fr&sig=ACfU3U1veWCyhei7-I2fkPGHkv5AILLzDQ&ci=141%2C802%2C825%2C725&edge=1" border="0" alt="Texte non disponible"/></a><br/><a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=J2a-R9JYxesC&lpg=PA256&vq=bedard&dq=%22Union%20Hotel%22%20quebec%20sewell&hl=fr&pg=PA256&ci=141,802,825,725&source=bookclip"></a> <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=J2a-R9JYxesC&lpg=PA256&vq=bedard&dq=%22Union%20Hotel%22%20quebec%20sewell&hl=fr&pg=PA257&ci=34,220,852,994&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.ca/books?id=J2a-R9JYxesC&pg=PA257&img=1&zoom=3&hl=fr&sig=ACfU3U0VExoRS1OY0EdA9F3GHtgVqOwCNA&ci=34%2C220%2C852%2C994&edge=1" border="0" alt="Texte non disponible"/></a><br/><a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=J2a-R9JYxesC&lpg=PA256&vq=bedard&dq=%22Union%20Hotel%22%20quebec%20sewell&hl=fr&pg=PA257&ci=34,220,852,994&source=bookclip">Hawkins`s Picture of Quebec With Historical Recollections De Alfred Hawkins, John Charlton Fisher</a>
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