PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, at which university, in his freshman year, he was successful in winning the Welsford scholarship (a coveted prize awarded to the student making the highest aggregate per- centage in all the subjects studied the first year) by the highest number of marks by which it had ever been taken—a record that has not yet been beaten. In his freshman year he also captured the Williams engineering prize open to the whole body of students and in the fourth term led theyear in responsions, At the end of his second year, Mr. Warbur- ton went to Edinburgh University for a year in arts and classics, this being followed by a year in London with the famous tutor, Walter Wren, after which Mr. Warburton returned home. He took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Windsor in 1874; Bachelor of Civil Law in 1876, and Doctor of Civil Law in 1897, all having been taken in due course.

Mr. Warburton studied law with Mr. Louis H. Davies (now Sir Louis H. Davies, K. C. M. G., one of the justices of the su- preme court of Canada), and after complet- ing his term here, studied during his attor- ney’s year with M. G. Baugh Allan, of the Inner Temple, London, a noted English spe- cial pleader. Upon returning to Charlotte town, Mr. Warburton engaged in the prac- tice of his profession, at first alone, but later in partnership with the late Francis Conroy. He afterwards was associated with C. R. Smallwood, and still later with Donald A. McKinnon, the present lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island.

Mr. Warburton early began to take an interest and an active part in political mat— ters, and upon his return from his studies in London, was appointed secretary of the Lib- eral Association. In 1890 he ran his first

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election and on election day enjoyed the novel experience of being on board a steamer stuck fast in the ice off Pictou. In this elec- tion he was defeated, but in the following year he was more successful, being elected for the first district of Queens county in a bye—election for the local Legislature. In the general elections of 1893 and 1897 he was re-elected, and in the latter year, on the resignation of Hon. Fred Peters, he was called upon to form a government, which he did, becoming premier of the province. Dur- ing his premiership the contract was made for ' ' the present Prince of Wales College and the work well started. In 1898 Mr. Warbur- ton was appointed judge of the county court of Kings county, which position he held un— til October, 1904. In the latter year, at the urgent request of leading Liberals of Queens county, he, three weeks before the election, resigned in order to contest that constituency in the interest! of the Liberal party at the general election held on the 3d of November, 1904, but he and his colleague, Mr. L. E. Prowse, were defeated. He has now re- sumed the practice of his profession in Char- lottetown. In politics he is a Liberal and a supporter of the present government of Canada. As especially pertinent in this con- nection, we quote verbatim from a recent sketch of Judge Warburton which appeared in the Prince Edward Island Magazine: “During the period when Judge War- burton was engaged in public life, his time was fully occupied. For many years he was one of the chief political editorial writers of The Patriot, and his ability in this line has been long recognized. He was always a leading figure in election campaigns and, be- ing a fluent speaker, usually did his full share in stumping the country. Politics, however, did not absorb all his energies. In