but it is otherwise in regard to his early life, and his career at the Bar. As in the case of many other distinguished Nova Scotians prominent in our past history, no record has been kept, and such glimpses as we have are very meagre and unsatisfactory. In his case, of course all those who enjoyed his acquaintance, and were associated with him either at the Bar, in the Legislature or on the Bench have long since passed away, and there are few members of the profession now living who practised before him, or even remember him at all.

William Blowers Bliss came of Loyalist stock, that stock which has given so many able men to the public service in the different Provinces of Canada. He was the third son of Jonathan Bliss who during the American Rebellion was proscribed, and driven from his home in Massachusetts for his loyalty to his country, and his King. He went to England, and in 1785 was appointed by the Crown Attorney-General of the newly constituted Province of New Brunswick, about that date severe’d from the Province of Nova Scotia. That office he retained until he was appointed Chief Justice of New Brunswick in 1809, and remained Chief Justice until the time of his death. One of his classmates at Harvard, and great friend, was our former Chief Justice Blowers after whom Judge Bliss was named. His mother was Mary Worthington, a daughter of the Honorable Colonel Worthington, of Springfield, Massachusetts, an eminent lawyer, and a man of great influence. Mr. Justice Bliss was born in St. John, New Brunswick, on the 24th August, 1795, in the house, it is said, which formerly belonged to General Benedict Arnold of American Rebellion fame. Of his early years as I have said nothing is now known except that he was educated at King’s College, Windsor, where he graduated at the early age of eighteen. He then went to England, and pursued his studies for the Bar at the Inner Temple under Sir William Wightman, afterwards an eminent English Judge.