1. George Jehoshaphat Mountain was a British-Canadian Anglican bishop, the first Principal of McGill College from 1824 to 1835, and one of the founders of Bishop's University and Bishop's College School.
10 Facts About George Mountain
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George Mountain was claimed to be directly descended from Michel de Montaigne.
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George Mountain lived with his family at Marchmont House, near Quebec, where he received his early education before returning to England at the age of sixteen to study under private tutors until he matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1810, and Doctor of Divinity in 1819.
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George Mountain removed again to Canada in 1811, and, becoming secretary to his father, was ordained deacon in 1812 and priest in 1816, at the same time being appointed evening lecturer in Quebec Cathedral.
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George Mountain was rector of Fredericton, New Brunswick, from 1814 to 1817, when he returned to Quebec as rector of that parish and bishop's official.
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George Mountain continued to administer all Lower Canada as Bishop coadjutor of Montreal until 1850, when he secured the constitution of the Diocese of Montreal, he himself retaining the Diocese of Quebec, by far the poorer and more laborious of the two.
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George Mountain came to Britain in 1853 to confer with William Broughton, the metropolitan of Australasia, on the subject of synodical action in colonial churches, and he received the degree of Doctor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford.
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George Mountain was a learned theologian, an elegant scholar, and powerful preacher.
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George Mountain died at Bardfield in Sillery, on 6 January 1863.
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George Mountain is responsible for creating the Link of Bishop's University with Bishop's College School who founded in 1836 which was then called Lennoxville Classical School, and helped the new Bishop's College Grammar School to survive financially and executively through many leadership roles.