from Kingsteignton and Whiteway, and was a daughter of Philip Whiteway,
J.P., of Runcorn, Cheshire, and Anne Chesshyre, of Rock Savage, his
wife. Professor Read received his education in Manchester Grammar School
from 1861 to 1867—being captain of the school in 1866. He then attended
Lincoln College, Oxford, where he secured a brilliant record, and in
1872 was assistant lecturer in the college. In 1873 he was ordained by
his lordship the Bishop of Salisbury. In 1872 he was appointed assistant
master at Marlborough College; in 1874, secretary of the Church Council
and examiner of schools under government in Barbadoes; in 1876, head
master of the school at Newton, Lancashire; in 1877, rector of Bishop’s
College, Lennoxville; in 1882, professor of Classics and Philosophy in
Bishop’s College, Lennoxville; and in 1887 examiner to the Medical Board
of the province of Quebec. In early life Professor Read began to take an
interest in the volunteer movement, and was sub-lieutenant in the Oxford
Rifle Volunteers. He is now captain of the school corps at Lennoxville.
In 1886 and 1888 he occupied the position of chaplain in the Independent
Order of Foresters. He has travelled a good deal, and found time to
visit the West Indies, Spain, and several other foreign countries. In
religion the professor belongs to the Episcopal church, and holds
moderately broad views. On the 28th June, 1879, he was united in
marriage to Helen Rosina, daughter of John W. McCallum, of Quebec, and
Annie S. Brown, of Halifax, his wife. Mrs. Read is a lineal descendant
of an old Scotch manufacturer who settled in Quebec shortly after the
conquest of Canada. The fruit of the above union has been two promising
children, Alexander Cuthbert Read, and Philip Austin Ottley Read.
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=Sterling, Alexander Addison=, Fredericton, N.B., High Sheriff of the
county of York, New Brunswick, was born on the 22nd of August, 1838, at
St. Marys, York county. He is the third son of George Henly Sterling,
and his wife Susan Elizabeth McLean, and grandson of Captain John
Sterling and Captain Archibald McLean, who were both loyalists and
served in the war of the American revolution, but eventually settled in
New Brunswick. He was brought up on his father’s farm at St. Marys, and
commenced his education at the local school, finishing his course of
study at the Fredericton Grammar School. He has been engaged in farming
and mercantile pursuits all his life, commencing his commercial career
as clerk in a store at Fredericton, in 1852, where he remained until