Saunders, John Simcoe

(1795-1878). Born in Fred eric ton, New Brunswick. Went to England; educated at Oxford University. Called to the bar of Nova Scotia, 1819, and to that of Lower Canada, 1820. Surveyor-general of New Brunswick, 1840, and provincial secretary, 1845. Appointed to the Legislative Council, of which he became Speaker, 1866; also senior justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Index : W Advocate-general, New Brunswick, 34; Partelow succeeds as provincial secretary, 116. Bib. : The Law of Pleading and Evidence in Civil Actions . For biog., see Morgan, Annual Register , 1878; Hannay, History of New Brunswick .