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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Died in 1943

Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943), born at Douglas in New Brunswick, the eldest of the children of an Anglican clergyman, grew up near the Tantramar marshes and graduated from his province's university in 1879. Headmaster at Chatham, then first editor of the Toronto magazine The Week, he taught English for ten years at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia. He left for New York in 1897, then for Europe, settled in London in the early 1910s, served in the British army during the Great War, and returned home in 1925. Knighted in 1935, he died in Toronto.

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