Arthur Maxwell House | |
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10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador | |
In office February 5, 1997 – November 1, 2002 |
|
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General |
Roméo LeBlanc Adrienne Clarkson |
Premier |
Brian Tobin Beaton Tulk Roger Grimes |
Preceded by | Frederick Russell |
Succeeded by | Edward Roberts |
Personal details | |
Born |
Glovertown, Newfoundland |
August 10, 1926
Died | October 17, 2013 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
(aged 87)
Awards | Order of Canada |
Arthur Maxwell House, OC (August 10, 1926 – October 17, 2013) was a Canadian neurologist and the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Born in Glovertown, he graduated from medical school at Dalhousie University in 1952. He then specialized in neurology, at the Montreal Neurological Institute, becoming the only neurologist, in 1959, in the province until 1966.
He helped create the medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland and worked thirty years there as a professor of neurology and held several administrative position. He retired in 1993.
In 1997, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In 1989, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 2005.
He died at St. John's in 2013.