Malachy Bowes Daly
{{Short description|Canadian politician (1836–1920)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable
| name = Sir Malachy Bowes Daly
| honorific-suffix = KCMG, KC
| image = Malachy Bowes Daly.jpg
| imagesize =
| office = 7th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
| predecessor = Archibald McLelan
| successor = Alfred Gilpin Jones
| term_start = July 11, 1890
| term_end = July 26, 1900
| monarch = Victoria
| governor_general = The Lord Stanley of Preston
The Earl of Aberdeen
The Earl of Minto
| premier = William S. Fielding
George Henry Murray
| constituency_MP2 = Halifax
| parliament2 = Canadian
| predecessor2 = Alfred Gilpin Jones
Patrick Power
| term_start2 = 1878
| term_end2 = 1883
| alongside2 = Matthew Henry Richey
| alongside3 = John Fitzwilliam Stairs
| successor3 = Alfred Gilpin Jones
Thomas Edward Kenny
| term_start3 = 1883
| term_end3 = 1887
| office4 = Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada)
| term_start4 = February 10, 1885
| term_end4 = January 15, 1887
| predecessor4 = Position Created
| successor4 = Charles Colby
| birth_date = {{birth date|1836|02|06}}
| birth_place = Quebec City, Lower Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1920|04|26|1836|02|06}}
| death_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia
| nationality =
| spouse =
| party = Liberal-Conservative
| relations = Dominick Daly (father)
| children =
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Sir Malachy Bowes Daly {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|sep=,|size=100%|KCMG|KC}} (February 6, 1836 – April 26, 1920) was a Canadian politician and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
Early life
Born in Quebec City, the son of Sir Dominick Daly, he was called to the bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1864.
Political and administrative career
Daly was a private secretary to his father and to three governors of Nova Scotia: Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Sir Charles Hastings Doyle, and Sir William Fenwick Williams.
He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the riding of Halifax in the 1878 federal election. A Liberal-Conservative, he was re-elected in the 1882 elections. From 1885 to 1887, he was the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons. From 1890 to 1900 he was the lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia. In the New Year Honours list January 1900, he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).{{London Gazette |issue=27150 |date=2 January 1900 |page=2}}
Outside politics, he was also a cricketer, playing twice for the Canada national cricket team in 1874.[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/181/181661/Other_matches.html Other matches played by Malachy Daly] at CricketArchive He also scored the first century in Canadian cricket in Halifax during the 1858 cricket season.[http://www.canadacricket.com/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EEAAAyAEkVFxxAhuPb Notable feats in Canadian cricket] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120221855/http://www.canadacricket.com/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EEAAAyAEkVFxxAhuPb |date=2008-01-20 }}
Family
At Halifax, July 4, 1859, he married Joanna Kenny, second daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, a cabinet minister in the Sir John A. Macdonald government. On retiring from the Governorship, he, Lady Daly and their daughter, Miss Daly, were honoured by public testimonials. He was given a magnificent dressing case; Lady Daly was given a diamond star pendant and Miss Daly was given a diamond ring. Lady Daly served as a volunteer and as President of the Ladies' Auxiliary in connection with the Mission to Deep Sea Fisheries. She was an amateur actress, and performed at Government House in Nova Scotia.{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/71 71]}}
Electoral history
{{1882 Canadian federal election/Halifax}}
{{1878 Canadian federal election/Halifax}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite web|url=http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirMalachyBowesDaly.htm|title=The Quebec History Encyclopedia|work=Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College|access-date=November 2, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060910004344/http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirMalachyBowesDaly.htm|archive-date=2006-09-10|url-status=dead}}
External links
- {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=1821}}
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Category:Canadian King's Counsel
Category:Canadian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Category:Lawyers in Nova Scotia
Category:Lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
Category:19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada