Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin, (December 24, 1872 – August 30, 1921) was a

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lawyer and politician. Born in

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, the son of pioneer Aylmer mayor and merchant Charles Devlin (b. Meera, County Roscommon) and Hellen Roney (b. Stewarton, Scotland), and the last of nine children, Devlin was educated at the

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in Montreal and

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. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree from

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and a Master of Arts degree from Laval University in Quebec. Called to the

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in 1895 and named

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in 1906; Devlin practised law in

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until 1901 when he moved to Hull. There, he became a partner in the law firm of Devlin and Ste. Marie, pleaded many notable cases, both civil and criminal in nature,"''Canadian Men and Women of the Time 1912''" by

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and served as solicitor for Wright County. Devlin was first elected to the

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for the electoral district of

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in a 1905 by-election called after

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resigned his seat in Wright, having been elected for

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also. A

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, he was re-elected in

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, and

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. He died in office in 1921 in Montreal. His elder brother, the Honourable

Charles Ramsay Devlin Sir Charles Ramsay Devlin (29 October 1858 – 1 March 1914) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada, in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, and an Irish MP in the House of Commons of t ...

, served not only as an MP in the Canadian House of Commons, but also as Minister of colonization, mines, and fisheries in the Quebec provincial government of Lomer Gouin, and as an MP representing Ireland in the British House of Commons at Westminster. In 1907, Devlin married Cécile, the daughter of

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, a former Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec.

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1872 births 1921 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec People educated at Mount St Mary's College Politicians from Gatineau Canadian King's Counsel Anglophone Quebec people Canadian people of Irish descent McGill University Faculty of Law alumni 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Université Laval alumni {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub