monarch death_date children nationality birth_date residence term_end alma_mater death_place profession order term_start spouse image name occupation predecessor birth_place cabinet party office lieutenant_governor successor religion article_title
edward vii george v 25 july 1938 charles hilda , helen , evelyn , and ethel f. , louis g. , mary e. , canadian 20 november 1849 charlottetown , prince edward island may 16 , 1911 16 , 1911 may 16 , 1911 may prince of wales college charlottetown , prince edward island politician 10th february 7 , 1904 1 , 1908 february 1 , 1908 december elizabeth desbrisay 1876 francis haszard.jpg francis haszard lawyer of the rolls , judge , and farmer , city magistrate , city recorder , master arthur peters arthur peters george forbes bellevue , lot 49 , prince edward island attorney general -lrb- 1908 -- 1911 -rrb- liberal premier edward island liberal party mla -lrb- councillor -rrb- for 4th of queens prince edward island leader of the prince donald alexander mackinnon benjamin rogers herbert james palmer herbert james palmer alexander macphail anglican francis haszard

francis haszard

francis longworth haszard -lrb- november 20 , 1849 -- july 25 , 1938 -rrb- was a prince edward island politician and jurist , the tenth premier of prince edward island .
haszard 's family had been united empire loyalists moving to pei from the united states after the american revolution .
longworth was born at bellevue , lot 49 , prince edward island .
he studied law , was called to the bar in 1872 and set up practice in charlottetown .
he had been a magistrate in charlottetown before being elected to the provincial legislature for the first time in 1904 as a liberal .
in 1908 , he was asked by the lieutenant governor to become premier after the death of arthur peters .
the liberals had been in power since 1891 and their majority in the legislature had eroded over time .
by the time haszard became premier the liberals and opposition conservatives had almost equal strength in the house .
haszard represented pei at the maritime and inter-provincial conferences held in 1910 and attempted to obtain a better deal for the province from the federal government .
haszard left politics in 1911 to accept an appointment to the province 's supreme court and as master of the rolls .
he retired from the bench in 1930 .
