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Matthew Hamilton Gault
The Hon. Matthew Hamilton Gault M.P., J.P. (July 18, 1822 – June 1, 1887) was an Irish-Canadian financier and politician. In 1865, he founded Sun Life Financial at Montreal. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878 election for the riding of Montreal West. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1882 and served until his death in 1887. During the winter he lived with his family at ''Braehead'' in Montreal's Golden Square Mile. He was the uncle of Brigadier-General Andrew Hamilton Gault.
==Early Years==
Born 1822 at Strabane, County Tyrone, he was the eldest son of Leslie Gault (1787-1843) and his wife Mary Hamilton (1798-1874), daughter of Matthew Hamilton (1750-1814), of Fintra House, near Killybegs, Co. Donegal.〔(Hamiltons of Fintra )〕 Gault was privately educated by Rev. Charles Allen, considered to be one of the best Classical scholars in Ireland.〔(Dictionary of Canadian Biography )〕
At the age of fifteen, a fall from a horse severely injured his spine and gave a shock to his nervous system from which he never completely recovered. After having been confined to bed for a year, he returned to school but found himself so far behind his classmates that he became discouraged and dropped out. Until the family left for Montreal and it became clear he would have to earn his own living, he passed his time in the countryside, fishing, shooting and hunting rabbits with his ferrets.〔(Gault family of Montreal )〕
His popular father had been the most prosperous merchant at Strabane, controlling a large proportion of the general business of two or three Northern Irish counties.〔(Gault family of Montreal )〕 As a ship-owner, for many years he sent emigrants across to New Brunswick and the United States. But, by the 1840s, Leslie Gault's finances were hit by severe losses in the Grain trade and by the removal of duty on Baltic timber. On top of these difficulties, three of his ships were lost at sea while the cargoes of his five remaining ships were being thrown on a depressed market, draining him of a lifetime's savings. In 1842, his father decided to make a new start and sailed with his family to Montreal. On arriving, his mother fell ill and was advised to return to Ireland, and only nine months later his father died of cholera.
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