Captain Edgeworth Usher (abt 1804 – November 16, 1838) was a British Loyalist. He served in the 3rd Regiment of the
Lincoln Militia during the
1837 Upper Canada Rebellion
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December 1837. While public grievances had existed for years, it was the rebellion in Lower Canada (p ...
. He was reportedly murdered by
Benjamin Lett
Benjamin Lett (14 November 1813–9 December 1858) was an Anglo-Irish-Canadian filibusterer who was a disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie.
Although he did not participate in the Upper Canada Rebellion, Lett was charged in 1838 with the murder ...
on the front step of his home, Milford Lodge, for his participation in the destruction of the American vessel
steamer Caroline.
Edgeworth was the son of Captain John Ussher and Mary Street, daughter of
Samuel Street. He married Sarah Thompson and had four children. Mary Ussher (died young), Emily Augusta Ussher, John Frederick Campbell Ussher, and Victoria Ussher. Victoria Ussher was baptised Edgeworth Victoria Ussher after her father's death.
Inscription on his tombstone: Here rests in the hope of a joyful resurrection the mortal remains of Edgeworth Ussher, Esq., whose devotion to his sovereign and exertions in the cause of his country at a critical period in the history of Canada marked him out as an object of the vengeance of the enemies of peace and good order, by whom he was cruelly assassinated on the night of 16 Nov., 1838, in his own house near Chippawa, at the early age of 34 years, leaving a wife and four children to mourn their irreparable loss.
Places and things named after Edgeworth Ussher
* Ussher's Creek (originally named Street's Creek for
Samuel Street) is where the battle of Chippawa began on July 5, 1814
* Edgeworth Road in Niagara Falls (Ontario, Canada)
* "EDGEWORTH USSHER" HOLE #6 - Usshers Creek Course at Legends on the Niagara
* Usshers Creek Estate Homes
See also
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Johnny Ussher John Tannatt Ussher, usually known as Johnny Ussher, was a settler, provincial magistrate and Gold Commissioner in the Thompson Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada in the 1870s. John Tannatt Ussher was the son of Samuel ...
- nephew of Edgeworth Ussher
External links
Biography of Benjamin Lett at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''Benjamin Lett: Early Canadian Terrorist ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''Niagara Falls Museum: ''Edgeworth Ussher''Headstone for Edgeworth Ussher at Lundys Lane Cemetery
Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
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1804 births
1838 deaths
Upper Canada Rebellion people