Strathclyde

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a former independent kingdom in Scotland. In the 8th century the ancient confederacy of the Britons was broken up into the separate divisions of Wales and English and Scotch Cumbria. Scotch Cumbria, otherwise called Strathclyde, thenceforth formed a little kingdom, comprising the country between Clyde and Solway, governed by princes of its own, and having the fortress town of Alclyde or Dumbarton for its capital. Becoming gradually ally more and more dependent on Scotland, it was annexed to the Scottish crown at the death of Malcolm I. On the death of Alexander I., without issue in 1124, it was permanently united to the Scotch kingdom under David I. MOUNT AND STRATHCONA ALEXANDER DONALD ROYAL, Canadian 1st BARON, SMITH, a statesman; born in Scotland in 1820; entered the service of the Hudson Bay Company at an early age, and was the last resident governor of that corporation as a governing body. He was special commissioner during the first Riel rebellion in the Red River settlements in 1869-1870; a member of the first executive council of the Northwest Territory; represented Winnipeg and St. John's in the Manitoba Legislature in 1871-1874; and was a member of the Canadian House of Commons for Selkirk in 1871-1872, 1874, and 1878, and for Montreal West in 1877-1896. He was a director of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba railway; the Great Northern Railway of Minnesota; and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; and intimately connected with many other corporations and organizations. He was made High Commissioner for Canada in 1896. In 1898 he was Governor of Frazer Institute and Chancellor of McGill University and also of Aberdeen University, Lord Rector in 1903. He gave over $1,000,000 to McGill and Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, also $1,000,000 to the King Edward Hospital Fund. He endowed chairs in many colleges and contributed generously to various educational funds. He died in 1914.