Head, Sir Edmund Walker

(1805-1868). Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1830-1837; lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 1847; governor-general of Canada, 1854-1861. Afterwards appointed a civil service commi ioner and elected governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Index : Md Calls upon Taché to form ministry, 80; suggests Bytown (Ottawa) as capital, 85. E Succeeds Elgin as governor-general, Dec. 19, 1854, 203; Elgin's opinion of, 208; visits Elgin, 239. B Sends for George Brown to form ministry—relations with, 101-105, 108. R Requests report on separate school question from Ryerson, 234. W On reducing number of judges in New Brunswick, 129, 130; and Wilmot, 131. T Judicial appointments, 31; and Confederation question, 63. Bib. : Morgan, Cel. Can. ; Dent, Can. Por. and Last Forty Years; Dict. Nat. Biog. ; Pope, Memoirs of Sir John A. Mac donald ; Mackenzie, Hon. George Brown .