Peter Redpath
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|birth_place = Montreal, Lower Canada
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1894|02|01|1821|08|01}}
|death_place = Chislehurst, England
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Peter Redpath (August 1, 1821 – February 1, 1894) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist, closely associated with Redpath Sugar.
Biography
Redpath was born in Montreal, Lower Canada, the son of a Scottish immigrant, John Redpath, a director of the Bank of Montreal and a member of the Montreal City Council.
Redpath worked in the family's sugar refinery and other businesses in Montreal. He was a member of the McGill University Board of Governors from 1864 until his death. He endowed a chair of Natural Philosophy at McGill in 1871 and established the Redpath Museum in 1880.
In the same year, he migrated to England. He also founded the Redpath Library at the university in 1893.[http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/images/view.php?id=5907&lang=en&size=3 Grace Redpath] He donated about half a million dollars in money and books to McGill University.
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File:Grace Redpath by William Notman.jpg]]
Redpath married Grace Wood on October 16, 1847: she was the daughter of William Wood, a merchant and philanthropist, of Bowdon, Cheshire, and was educated privately.
The couple lived in Montreal until they retired to Chislehurst, Kent in the 1870s. Redpath died on February 1, 1894, aged 73, and was buried in the St. Nicholas Churchyard in Chislehurst.{{Cite web|title=Peter Redpath (1821-1894) - Find A Grave Memorial|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150962765/peter-redpath|access-date=2020-06-22|website=www.findagrave.com|language=en}}
His widow contributed $11,500 in 1894 for Redpath Museum expenses and $40,500 for the maintenance an expansion of the Redpath Library at McGill University, which was completed in 1894. A portrait and bust of Redpath, and a portrait of his wife, were placed by the governors of McGill University in its main gallery.{{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/279 279]}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051216205858/http://www.library.mcgill.ca/human/histred.htm Library History — Peter Redpath] from McGill University
- [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-1621.1&Lang=1&imageID=216980 Photograph:Peter Redpath, 1861] - McCord Museum
- [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-69834&Lang=1&imageID=142583 Photograph:Peter Redpath, 1871] - McCord Museum
- [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=II-99021.2&Lang=1&imageID=149241 Photograph:Peter Redpath, 1891] - McCord Museum
- [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-46387.1&Lang=1&imageID=142181 Photograph:Mrs. Peter Redpath, 1870] - McCord Museum
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Category:Montreal Annexation Manifesto signers
Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent
Category:Businesspeople from Montreal
Category:19th-century Canadian philanthropists
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