Identifier: collectionsofnov17nova (find matches)
Title: Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Nova Scotia Historical Society. cn
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Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Historical Society
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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alition was viewed by the stalwart reformers as one ofthose peculiar errors of judgment which characterized Howescareer. It should be stated, however that Howe vigorouslymaintained that the end would certainly justify the means em-ployed to reach it. William Young, for one, berated Howefor going into the coalition. , Doyle was without a seat in the new house, and although hedid not approve of Howes action with respect to stoppingshort in the main pursuit of the reforms, which the Liberalparty had set out to accomplish, he still continued his friend.A very sad domestic affliction was experienced by Doyle in 1842.His wife died on the first of February of that year. Theobituary notice reads as follows: On Monday last after a long and tedious illness, SarahAnn, consort of L. OConnor Doyle, Esq., and eldest daughterof the last Lieut. Driscoll, Royal Navy, aged 27 years. As one of the representative Catholics of Halifax, Mr. Doyletook an active part in all movements which had for their pur-
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THE HON. JAMES MacNAB, (1792-1871.)(Late Colonel (1842) 1st Halifax Regiment.) A SKETCH OF LAWRENCE OCONNOR DOYLE. 189 pose the advancement of his co-religionists in the community.In 1843 he presided at the annual dinner of the Irish Society.On this occasion twenty-six toasts were drunk, among whichwas one to the memory of the father of the Society, the lateHonorable Richard John Uniacke, and another to the poetThomas Moore. The Society lost one of its past presidents in 1843, who hadbeen on the role of membership in the eighteenth century. Thelate Hon. Michael Tobin was born in Halifax. He was educa-ted here where neither means nor institutions of learning wereso abundant as at his decease, and when Catholics especiallywere denied the same free access to the fountains of religion andliterature which the more enlightened spirit of the present ageaffords. Doyles admiration for OConnell grew in intensity. Hewas a most outspoken believer in repeal of the Union. He wasa member of the bran

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