Sir Joseph Pope (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. From 1909 to 1925, he was the first permanent under-secretary of State for External Affairs.
Pope was appointed a
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, George III, King George III.
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(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. He was later knighted as a Knight Commander (KCMG) of the same order.
He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, Que. on October 15, 1884. They had five sons and a daughter. One of his sons,
Maurice Arthur Pope
Lieutenant-general (Canada), Lieutenant General Maurice Arthur Pope, (9 August 1889 − 20 September 1978) was a Canadian Army officer, civil engineer, and diplomat.
Military career
Born in August 1889 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, the son of Jos ...
, later became a
lieutenant general in the
Canadian Army.
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 from
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the ...
in ''Why I Became a Catholic'', published privately in 1921, and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.
There is a Joseph Pope
fonds at
Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is th ...
.
References
External links
Sir Joseph Pope Biography at the ''Canadian Encyclopedia''Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''*
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1854 births
1926 deaths
19th-century Canadian civil servants
20th-century Canadian civil servants
Canadian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Canadian Companions of the Imperial Service Order
Canadian Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism
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