Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy

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Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy (November 6, 1796 – June 11, 1876) was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.

He was born in Trois-Rivières in 1796, the son of Louis Gugy and was educated in the school of the Reverend John Strachan in Cornwall, Upper Canada. He served in the Canadian Fencibles during the War of 1812, later becoming lieutenant. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1822. In 1828, he married Louise-Sophie, daughter of Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay. Gugy was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Sherbrooke in an 1831 by-election and was reelected in 1834. He voted against the Ninety-Two Resolutions. He served with the militia during the Lower Canada Rebellion as colonel leading a cavalry unit; he fought at Saint-Charles and Saint-Eustache. Gugy was police magistrate at Montreal from 1838 to 1839 and served as adjutant-general of militia for Lower Canada from 1841 to 1846. In 1848, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for the town of Sherbrooke. He was one of the Canadian representatives to the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. In 1853, he inherited his father's residence at Beauport and the seigneuries of Yamachiche, Rivière-du-Loup, Grandpré, Grosbois and Dumontier. In 1869, Gugy married Mary McGrath, the daughter of a doctor in Michigan; his first wife had died in 1842.