Alexander Edmund Batson Davie

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Alexander Edmund Batson Davie
Hon. Alexander Edmund Batson Davie
8th Premier of British Columbia
In office
April 1, 1887 – August 1, 1889
MonarchVictoria
Lieutenant GovernorHugh Nelson
Preceded byWilliam Smithe
Succeeded byJohn Robson
MLA for Cariboo
In office
September 11, 1875 – May 22, 1878
Preceded byJoseph Hunter
Succeeded byGeorge Cowan
MLA for Lillooet
In office
July 24, 1882 – August 1, 1889
Serving with Edward Allen
Preceded byWilliam Brown
Succeeded byAlfred Wellington Smith
Personal details
Born(1847-11-24)November 24, 1847
Somerset, England
DiedAugust 1, 1889(1889-08-01) (aged 41)
Victoria, British Columbia
Political partyNone
Spouse
Constance Langford Skinner
(m. 1874)

Alexander Edmund Batson Davie,

QC, referred to as A. E. B. Davie[1] (November 24, 1847 – August 1, 1889), was the eighth premier of British Columbia. He served in office from 1887 until his death in 1889.[2]

attorney-general under Premier William Smithe. He went to Ottawa and argued before the Supreme Court of Canada
in favour of provincial rights pleading that the province had a right to regulate its liquor sales.

When Smithe died in 1887, the

Provincial Secretary John Robson ran the government on a day-to-day basis, though Davie attempted to direct policy in his letters to Robson. He returned in May 1888, but his health was in a poor state, and he ultimately died in office the following August.[2]

Queen's Counsel in September 1883.[6] His brother, Theodore Davie
, later became premier in 1892.

Davie was married December 3, 1874, to Constance Langford Skinner of Maple Bay, British Columbia. They had four children.[7] Alexander Edmund Batson Davie is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia.

References

  1. ^ "Alexander Edmund Batson Davie". freemasonry.bcy.ca. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Biography – Davie, Alexander Edmund Batson – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  3. ^ "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-198 6Victoria, BC" (PDF). Elections British Columbia. 1988.
  4. ^ "BC Premier#7 – The First of the Two Premier Davies". Not To Be Trusted With Knives. November 2, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  5. ^ "Alexander Edmund Batson Davie". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  6. ^ Mackintosh, Charles Herbert; Gemmili, John Alexander (1887). The Canadian Parliamentary Companion... p. 346. Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC 1883.
  7. ^ "Daily Colonist, Victoria BC: 1889". Archived from the original on September 1, 2006.

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