appointed death_date death_place birth_place party office birth_date term_start residence image article_title term_end name
john a. macdonald 18 march 1909 barrie , ontario cahore , county wexford , ireland liberal-conservative senator for barrie , ontario 22 december 1815 january 29 , 1885 island in lake muskoka . james robert gowan.png james robert gowan
 february 1 , 1907 sir james robert gowan
james robert gowan

sir james robert gowan , kcmg , qc -lrb- december 22 , 1815 -- march 18 , 1909 -rrb- was a canadian lawyer , judge , and senator .
born in cahore , county wexford , ireland , the son of henry hatton gowan and elizabeth burkitt , he was educated privately in dublin .
in 1832 , he emigrated to canada and settled outside of toronto .
in 1833 , he became a student in the law office of james edward small and later practiced law there .
he married anne ardagh in 1854 .
they had no children .
in 1843 , he was appointed judge of the newly created simcoe district , the largest jurisdiction in upper canada .
he was the youngest judge ever commissioned in the british empire at the time .
he retired in 1883 .
in 1885 , he was appointed a senator on the advice of john alexander macdonald representing the senatorial division of barrie , ontario .
a liberal-conservative , he served for 22 until his resigning in 1907 .
he was created a c.m.g. in 1893 and knighted in 1905 .
he was related to ogle robert gowan , emily gowan murphy née ferguson , and thomas roberts ferguson .
