Claim: George Brown lost his race for the Liberal Party Leadership in Canada on the first of July in 1867.
Evidence: George Alfred Gordon-Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC (2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985), was a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and also in several Cabinet posts, including Foreign Secretary during the Labour government of the 1960s. 
George Brown, who was the leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario, was considered the "elder statesman" of the national party. The Liberals did not have a party leader in the election.