Joseph Pope

Sir Joseph Pope
Born (1854-08-16)August 16, 1854
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Died December 2, 1926(1926-12-02) (aged 72)
Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation Clerk, private secretary, civil servant, and author

Sir Joseph Pope KCMG CVO ISO (August 16, 1854 – December 2, 1926) was a Canadian public servant. He was Private Secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 to 1891 and Assistant Clerk to the Privy Council & Under Secretary of State for Canada from 1896 to 1926. From 1909 to 1925, he was the first permanent under-secretary of State for External Affairs.

Pope was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the visit to Canada of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901.[1] He was later knighted as a Knight Commander of the same order.

He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, Que. on Oct 15, 1884, and they had five sons and a daughter

Pope’s life story was edited and completed by his son Maurice Arthur Pope, and was published as "Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope" (Toronto, 1960). Sir Joseph tells the story of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith in Why I Became a Catholic, published privately in 1921,[2] and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27364. p. 6641. 11 October 1901.
  2. ↑ http://books.google.ca/books?id=fG5zuUnGu14C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Joseph+pope+Why+I+became+Catholic&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AVl2VJ_VBYywsATxvoDYAw&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20pope%20Why%20I%20became%20Catholic&f=false
  3. ↑ http://www.ignatius.com/Products/WIBC-P/why-i-became-a-catholic.aspx

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