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EORGE KENNEDY, M.A., LL.D., barrister-at-law, Crown Lands Department, Toronto, Ont., was born at Bytown (now the city of Ottawa) on March 1st, 1838. He was educated at Carleton County Model School, Aylmer Academy, Ottawa Grammar School, and University College, Toronto. He matriculated in Toronto University in 1853, took first classical scholarship, and held firstclass honors in classics, mathematics, metaphysics and ethics, logic, rhetoric, modern languages, history and English literature. He was also gold medalist in metaphysics and ethics. He gradu

ated B.A. in 1857, M.A. in 1860, LL.B. in 1864, and LL.D. in 1877. He became head master of Grenville County Grammar School in 1859, and second master of Ottawa Grammar School in 1860 and 1861, where he also had at the same time charge of the branch Meteorological Observatory. Mr. Kennedy then studied law in the office of Messrs. Crooks, Kingsmill & Cattanach, Toronto, and entered at Osgoode Hall in 1862, and was called to the Bar

in 1865. After practicing in Ottawa from 1865 until 1872, he accepted the position of law clerk to the Crown Lands Department of Ontario. He has been connected with Toronto University College Literary Society (of which he was one of the original members), and the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, of which he is a life member. He has been vice-president of the Canadian Institute, and is editor of "The Transactions." He has also been secretary of the Toronto St. Andrew's Society from the year 1885 to the present time, and has written a history of its first fifty years, from 1836-86. On June 6th, 1883, he was married to Sarah, daughter of the late Henry Jackson. brought up in the Presbyterian faith, and attends the Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, Toronto, but is a Unitarian in belief. Men of Mr. Kennedy's attainments are bright examples of the success possible to be secured by persevering effort, long before the prime of life is reached.

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LEXANDER YOUNG SCOTT, B.A., M.D., Professor of Practical Biology in Trinity Medical College, Toronto, was born on October 12th, 1859, in Chesterfield, County of Oxford, Ont. His father was Alexander Scott, merchant there. On the 6th of August, 1889, Dr. Scott was married to Margaret S. Ritchie, daughter of Hugh Ritchie, formerly of Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. He began his preliminary education in the Stratford public schools. From 1878 to 1882 he attended Toronto University, where he graduated with the highest honors. After graduating in 1882, he

was appointed to the position of Science Master in Upper Canada College, and while engaged teaching there, he entered Trinity Medical College, and graduated in medicine in 1887 with first-class honors. In 1891 he was appointed Dean and Lecturer o11 Chemistry and Botany in the Ontario College of Pharmacy, and in the same year was elected manager of Deer Park Presbyterian Church. Dr. Scott is also a member of the Royal Arcanum. He was an officer in the North-West Rebellion of 1885 and took part in the engagements of General Middleton's column at Fish Creek and Batoche.

EV. JOHN G. SHEARER, B.A., pastor of Erskine Presbyterian Churchi, Hamilton, Ont., was born in Blandford, Oxford, on the 9th of August, 1859, and was married to Miss Lizzie Johnston, of Burford, Ont., on the 8th of August, 1883. Mr. Shearer was educated at Ratho public school, Weston High School, Brantford Collegiate Institute and Toronto University, where he graduated as B.A. in June, 1889, with high honors in mental and moral science, civil polity and logic. He graduated in theology from Knox College, Toronto, in 1888, having taken several prizes and scholarships.

Mr. Shearer left the farm at seventeen, and having obtained a second-class certificate at eighteen, began teaching school. In 1879, and again in 1887, in pursuit of better health, he spent some months in Europe. He was converted in 1883 and began his ministry at Onondaga, Brant County. Subsequently his labors were much blessed in missions at Fort William, Algoma, and in St. John's Ward, Toronto. Mr. Shearer was called to Caledonia immediately on completing his theological studies, and was ordained and inducted on June 5th, 1888. He was unanimously called to Hamilton in January, 1891.

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ROF. GOLDWIN SMITH, M.A., LL.D. and D.C.L., Toronto, was born on the 13th of August, 1823, at Reading, England, where his father had been for some time a practicing physician. Like so many other distinguished Englishmen, he received his early education at Eton, which school was soon to receive added honors by his brilliant university course at Oxford. He first entered as an under-graduate of Christ Church, but on being elected to a demyship in Magdalen he completed his course in that college. Two years after graduation, he was offered and accepted a fellowship of University College, of which institution he became tutor. In 1840 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, but minds like his seldom find in the law a permanent attraction, and Mr. Smith was won to lifelong service to literature. In 1858 he was elected professor of modern history at Oxford. When he visited America in 1864 he received from the Brown University the degree of LL.D. From his Own university at Oxford he subsequently had conferred upon the degree of D.C.L. staunchly advocated abolition of slavery, and warmly sympathized with the North during the Civil war. Four years after his first arrival in America he was appointed lecturer in English and constitutional history in Cornell University at Ithaca, N.Y., and this office he still holds, although for the past twelve years he has been a resident

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of Toronto. In 1872 he was appointed a member of the Senate of Toronto University, was elected the representative of the public school teachers on the council of public instruction, and for two years president of the Provincial Teachers' Association. Since coming to Canada, Mr. Smith has devoted his time and genius to a furtherance of all projects that can advance the people, intellectually, socially, and morally. He established The Bystander, and took part in establishing The Week. In 1875 he married the widow of the late Wm. Boulton, of Toronto. As a master of style, he has no superior.

DWARD HARTLEY DEWART, D. D., editor of the Christian Guardian, Toronto, was born in county Cavan, Ireland, in 1828, and was married June 25th, 1856, to Miss Matilda Hunt, of Hamilton. When he was six years old, he came with his parents to Canada, the family settling in Peterboro county, Ontario. Educational advantages at that time were few, but young Dewart was a persistent student. In 1847 he became a student of the Normal School, and afterwards taught school, and, in coming back for another session, assisted the professors in teaching. In 1851 he was called to

the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, of which he had been a member since 1843. His ministerial labors commenced in St. Thomas circuit, he then travelled for one year each in Port Hope and Thorold circuits. On the completion of his probation he was stationed in Dundas, then in 1856 as superintendent of St. Andrew's circuit on the Ottawa River, then on the Odelltown circuit, and in 1860 in Montreal West. Owing to enfeebled health, resulting from overwork, he was compelled to retire for nearly a year. stored to health, he was for three years superintendent of the St. John's cir

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cuit, and afterwards stationed at Collingwood, Toronto, and Ingersoll. In 1869 he was elected editor of the Christian Guardian, a position which he has filled for over twenty-one years with marked ability. At the late General Conference he was re-elected for another term. In 1873 Dr. Dewart was a delegate to the English Wesleyan Conference, and in 1881 to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference held in London, England. He was president of the Toronto Conference in 1883, and of the Canadian Press Association in 1889, and a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference of 1891. Notwithstanding the large amount of church work and editorial duties devolving upon him, he has done a good deal of enduring work with his pen, in prose and verse. He is a vigorous writer, a powerful debater, and an able preacher.