Crease, Henry Pering Pellew

CREASE, Henry Pering Pellew, jurist (b 20 Aug 1823, Plymouth, England; d 27 Nov 1905, Victoria). After legal training in England, he went to live briefly in Ontario in 1849, then returned to England and managed a tin mine in Cornwall. In 1858 he immigrated to VANCOUVER ISLAND, where he set up as the colony's first qualified lawyer. He was elected in 1860 to the House of Assembly (see COLONIAL GOVERNMENT) and in 1861 became BC attorney general, a position he retained following union of the...

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