Joseph Pope

Sir Joseph Pope
Born August 16, 1854
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Died December 2, 1926 (aged 72)
Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation Clerk, private secretary, civil servant, and author

Sir Joseph Pope, KCMG CVO ISO (August 16, 1854 – December 2, 1926) was a Canadian public servant. He was Private Secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 to 1891 and Assistant Clerk to the Privy Council & Under Secretary of State for Canada from 1896 to 1926.

Pope was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the visit to Canada of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901.[1] He was later knighted as a Knight Commander of the same order.

He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, Que. on Oct 15, 1884, and they had five sons and a daughter

Pope’s life story was edited and completed by his son Maurice Arthur Pope, and was published as "Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope" (Toronto, 1960). Sir Joseph tells the story of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith in Why I Became a Catholic, published privately in 1921,[2] and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27364. p. 6641. 11 October 1901.
  2. ↑ http://books.google.ca/books?id=fG5zuUnGu14C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Joseph+pope+Why+I+became+Catholic&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AVl2VJ_VBYywsATxvoDYAw&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20pope%20Why%20I%20became%20Catholic&f=false
  3. ↑ http://www.ignatius.com/Products/WIBC-P/why-i-became-a-catholic.aspx

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