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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Council, N.W. Teri-itories, 1869 ; was commissioner of the Inter- national Boundary Commission, and secretary to the Canadian Delegation at the International Conference held at Paris, 1883, for the pi'otection of submarine cables. They have issue, 1. William Tupper. 1. Sophie Tupper. 2. Nancie Tupper. 3. Lillie Tupper. 4. Mary Tupper. 5. Frances Tupper. It. Elizabeth Stewart, d. an infant, 1st November, 1850. III. Sophie Almon, d. 17th August, 1863. Sir Charles took the degree of M.D. at Edinburgh, 1843, and the same year obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and is an M.A. and D.C.L. of Arcadia College, Nova Scotia; has been a representative in the Nova Scotian and Canadian Parliaments for thirty-one years, having been returned fourteen times continuously ; was appointed by Act of Parliament, 1862, governor of Dalhousie College, Halifax ; was president of the Canadian Medical Association, from its formation, 1867, until 1870, when he declined re- election. He was a, member of the Executive Council, and provincial secretary, Nova Scotia, from 1857 to 1860 ; and from 1863 to 30th June, 1867 ; prime minister of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1st July, 1867, the date of the Union ; sworn a privy councillor of the Dominion of Canada, June, 1870; held the office of president of the Privy Council, 1870 to 1st July, 1872, when he was appointed minister of Inland Revenue, which post he held till 22nd February, 1873 ; minister of Customs 1873, minister of Public Works, 1878—79 ; and minister of Railways and Canals 1879 — 84 ; high commissioner in Great Britain for Canada, 1884 — 87 ; executive commissioner for Canada of the Antwerp Exhibition, 1885, and of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886, of which he was also appointed royal commissioner by the Queen. The University of Cambridge conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of lawi and the same day had granted to him the honorary freedom of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of London ; was minister of finance, 1887 — 88; since then high commissioner in Great Britain, and one of H.M.'s plenipotentiaries in the Fishery Commission at Washington, 1887 — 88 ; nominated a C.B. 29th June, 1867; K.C.M.G. 24th May, 1879, and G.C.M.G. 1st February, 1886; created a baronet by letters patent bearing date 13th September, 1888. In consequence of persecution two brothers, previous to 1522, iied from Hesse Cassel, Upper Saxony; one settled in Holland, and in 1813 a descendant, Daniel Tupper, was burgomaster of Rotterdam. Another mem- ber of the family settled at Sandwich, co. Kent. From this latter branch descended Thomas TrpPER, who emigrated to America in 1635, landed at Sangus, Mass. (now called Lynn), and two years later removed, with nine others, to Sandwich, Mass., and became the incorporators of the town. He had a son, Thomas TUPPEK, S. in 1637, whom. Martha, daughter of G-oyernor Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard.* He left a son, Eliakim Tupper, who was the father of Eliakim Tuppee, who left a son Charles Tupper, of Oornwallis, in Nova Scotia, who emigrated from Lebanon, Connecticut, United States of America, in 1760, to Cornwallis ; he m. 24th October, in Sandwich, and is occupied by a member of the family, Russell Ellis Tupper.
 * Tlie old mansion house is still standing