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 alongside cabinet party office lieutenant_governor successor religion article_title
victoria 30 september 1920 adele f. cleaver , wilfred c. p. , faustina m. l. m. , and louis arthur m , alice m. m , w. canadian 06 december 1839 charlottetown , prince edward island november 21 , 1917 november 13 , 1889 february 21 , 13 1894 , 1889 november 13 , 1889 june university of prince edward island st. dunstan 's college memramcook , new brunswick politician 4th april 1872 february 14 , 1894 25 , 1879 1877 november 13 , 1889 alice maud mary newberry 1872 william sullivan.jpg sir william wilfred sullivan journalist , lawyer , and judge louis slason carvell henry davies lemuel owen edward palmer none jedediah hope river , prince edward island hilary mcisaac , william hooper , john underhay solicitor general -lrb- 1873 -- 1876 -rrb- conservative party premier party of prince edward island chief justice of prince edward of island member of the general assembly of prince edward island prince for 2nd kings administrator of prince edward island edward island leader of the conservative robert slason carvell hodgson thomas heath haviland andrew archibald macdonald jedediah neil sullivan george william howlan mcleod neil mcleod john alexander mathieson john p. roman catholic william wilfred sullivan

william wilfred sullivan

sir william wilfred sullivan -lrb- december 6 , 1839 -- september 30 , 1920 -rrb- was a prince edward island journalist , politician and jurist , the fourth premier of prince edward island .
a native of hope river , sullivan had a career as an assistant editor at the `` charlottetown herald '' as well as a lawyer before being elected to the provincial legislature in 1872 as a liberal mla .
a staunch catholic , sullivan became leader of the opposition in 1877 to the protestant coalition government of louis henry davies which had been formed to implement a public , secular school system that denied funding to roman catholic separate schools .
sullivan reorganised the conservative party and was asked by the lieutenant governor to become premier once davies ' coalition broke up and became unable to command a majority in the assembly .
sullivan served as premier for ten years and fought for pei 's rights in the dominion of canada .
he protested the federal government 's failure to fulfill the terms of confederation on which the island had joined the dominion in 1873 .
in 1886 , he petitioned the imperial government in london protesting canada 's delinquency in respect to promises to ensure communication lines between the island and the rest of the country but the problem remained unresolved until the 1900s .
in 1889 , sullivan was appointed chief justice of pei and served in that position until his retirement in 1917 .
in 1914 he was knighted by king george v.
