Frederick Francis Mathers (October 17, 1871 – June 29, 1947) was the 18th

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from May 31, 1940, to November 17, 1942. He was born in

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, the son of Isaac Henry Mathers and Kathleen McDonnell, and was educated in Halifax, at

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and

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. In 1899, Mathers married Margaret Ethel Bligh. He was deputy provincial secretary from 1902 to 1918 and deputy attorney general from 1918 to 1940. He served in the "Scottish Rifles" Company in the

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and as Honorary Colonel of the Rifles from 1942 until 1947.

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