Sir Edward Seaborne Clouston, 1st Baronet (May 9, 1849 – November 23, 1912) was a Canadian banker and financier who became the General Manager of the

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Life and career

He was born in

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to James Stewart Clouston (1826–1874), the last

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of the

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(HBC), and his wife Margaret, daughter of Robert Seaborn Miles (1795–1870), in his time also Chief Factor for the HBC and

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Rupert's Land Rupert's Land (), or Prince Rupert's Land (), was a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The right to "sole trade and commerce" over Rupert's Land was granted to Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), based a ...

.W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Canada'', Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 85. His grandfather was agent for the HBC at

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, where his family had lived since the end of the 17th century, descended from Richard Clouston (1626–1666), 16th of Clouston and Netherbigging, Stromness. Clouston received his education at the

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and then worked for one year for the Hudson's Bay Company before commencing employment at the Bank of Montreal as a clerk in 1865. He became assistant general manager of the bank in 1887, general manager in 1890 and first vice-president in 1906. He was created a

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in 1908. Clouston was elected president of the

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on several occasions and, in this capacity, advised successive

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."SIR EDWARD SEABORNE CLOUSTON" in ''Montreal, Pictorial and Biographical'' The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, 1914 (reproduced on rootsweb.co

He served as vice-president of the Royal Trust Company and as a director of the Guarantee Company of North America, the Canadian Cottons, Limited, the Canada Sugar Refining Company, the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, and the Kaministikwia Power Company. He was chairman of the Canadian board of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.

Family

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In 1878, Clouston married Annie Easton, daughter of George Easton, Collector of Customs in

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, Ontario, and his wife Isabella Jane. She was born in Brockville and was educated at the

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in Toronto. The couple had two daughters, of whom one, Marjory Meredith Clouston (1882–1945), survived. She married

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, professor of

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, in 1911 and they were the parents of three daughters. Lady Clouston was interested in charitable works. In 1895, she was elected vice-president of a committee to preserve

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. She was elected an office-bearer of the Woman's National Immigration Society. The family residences included a country house named ''Boisbriant'' at 170 Senneville Road in

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, which was formerly owned by

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. His nephew,

James Campbell Clouston James Campbell Clouston (31 August 1900 – 3 June 1940) was a Canadian officer in the British Royal Navy, who acted as pier-master during the Dunkirk evacuation. While returning to Dunkirk, France, his motor launch was sunk by enemy aircraft ...

, played a pivotal role during the

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