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Henry Gustave Joly

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
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4th Premier of Quebec
In office
March 8, 1878 – October 31, 1879
Monarch Victoria
Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de St.-Just
Théodore Robitaille
Preceded by Charles Boucher de Boucherville
Succeeded by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
7th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
In office
June 21, 1900 – May 11, 1906
Monarch Victoria
Edward VII
Governor General The Earl of Minto
The Earl Grey
Premier James Dunsmuir
Edward Gawler Prior
Richard McBride
Preceded by Thomas Robert McInnes
Succeeded by James Dunsmuir
MLA for Lotbinière
In office
September 1, 1867 – November 25, 1885
Preceded by Provincial district created in 1867
Succeeded by Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Lotbinière
In office
September 20, 1867 – January 22, 1874
Preceded by none
Succeeded by Henry Bernier
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Portneuf
In office
June 23, 1896 – November 7, 1900
Preceded by Arthur Delisle
Succeeded by Michel-Siméon Delisle
Personal details
Born (1829-12-05)December 5, 1829
Épernay, France
Died November 16, 1908(1908-11-16) (aged 78)
Quebec City, Canada
Political party Quebec Liberal Party

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, KCMG, PC (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) served as the fourth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, PC was born as Henry-Gustave Joly in Épernay, France. His father's family was one of the traditional Huguenot families from Switzerland and his mother's family was Roman Catholic. Initially a Huguenot himself, Henri-Gustave converted to Anglicanism before he married in 1856.

His father, Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, was a pioneer of early photography (the first man to photograph the Acropolis, in 1839) who made a series of daguerreotypes while on a Grand Tour through Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Henri-Gustave's mother was Julie-Christine, the youngest daughter of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, who inherited the seigneury of Lotbinière, in 1828. His parents' marriage was not a happy one, which is perhaps not surprising as his father had first proposed to Julie-Christine's eldest sister, Louise-Josephe, the Seigneuresse de Vaudreuil, who instead chose to marry Robert Unwin Harwood. Henri-Gustave Joly studied in Paris and inherited the title of seigneur of Lotbinière in 1860.


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