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Charles Robert Webster Biggar fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1864-1909.

Reference:

R7560-0-5-E, MG29-D45

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98146

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Charles Robert Webster Biggar fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1864-1909.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

12.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of documents pertaining to Biggar's work PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF ACTIONALBE NEGLIGENCE, including correspondence, typescript and pageproofs, 1908-1909; notes for and manuscripts of speeches, essays and arguments for debate presented by Biggar at Victoria College and various learned societies, 1864-1874; notes made at the Reform Conventions of 1867 and 1868, 7.8 cm; and miscellaneous notes pertaining to Biggar's career and education, 1866-1892, 5 cm.

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Biggar, C. R. W. (Charles Robert Webster), 1847-1909

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Biggar, C. R. W. (Charles Robert Webster), 1847-1909 : Charles Robert Webster Biggar was born in Murray, Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto, receiving his B.A. in 1869, and M.A. in 1873. He was thereafter called to the Bar in 1873. In 1875 he married Jane Helen Mowat, eldest daughter of Sir Oliver Mowat, and in 1905 he published a biography of his father-in-law. Between 1908 and 1909 he wrote a book of law entitled PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF ACTIONABLE NEGILGENCE.

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Acquired in 1958 from Mrs. Bruce Lumsden, daughter of O.M. Biggar.
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Lawyers - Canada, 1866-1892 Principles on the Law of Actionable Negligence, 1908-1909

Law - Canada - Interpretation and construction, 1908-1909 University College Library and Scientific Society, 1864-1874

Political conventions - Canada, 1867-1868 Natural Science Club (Toronto, Ont.), 1864-1874
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MG29-D45
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