Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy
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Colonel The Honourable Bartholomew Gugy |
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| Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Sherbrooke | |
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In office 1831–1837 |
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| Preceded by | Benjamin Tremain |
| Succeeded by | Edward Hale |
| Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Sherbrooke | |
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In office 1848–1852 |
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| Preceded by | Edward Hale |
| Succeeded by | Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt |
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November 6, 1796 Trois-Rivières, Quebec |
| Died | June 11, 1876 (aged 79) Beauport, Quebec |
| Political party | Conservative |
Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy (November 6, 1796 – June 11, 1876) represented Sherbrooke in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. He played a prominent military role in the Lower Canada Rebellion as Colonel of the cavalry at the Battle of Saint-Charles, afterwards seizing the Column of Liberty and carrying it in triumph back to Montreal. He was Police Magistrate at Montreal and Adjutant-General to the Militia of Lower Canada. He lived between Montreal and his father's manor house at Beauport. He was a large landowner having also inherited the Seigneuries of Yamachiche, Rivière-du-Loup, Grandpré, Grosbois, and Dumontier.
He was born at Trois-Rivières in 1796, the son of Lt.-Col. The Hon. Louis Gugy and Juliana O'Connor. As a Huguenot, and the son of a Royalist Colonel of the Swiss Guard who served with the British Army too, he was admitted to the elitist school of the Reverend John Strachan in Cornwall, Upper Canada. He was the brother-in-law of Judge Samuel Wentworth Monk, nephew of Sir James Monk, Chief Justice of Lower Canada.
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