William Locker Pickmore Felton, (April 6, 1812 – November 12, 1877) was a lawyer and political figure in

Canada East Canada East (french: links=no, Canada-Est) was the northeastern portion of the United Province of Canada. Lord Durham's Report investigating the causes of the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions recommended merging those two colonies. The new ...

. He was born at

Mahón Mahón (), officially Maó (), and also written as Mahon or Port Mahon in English, is the capital and second largest city of Menorca. The city is located on the eastern coast of the island, which is part of the archipelago and autonomous communi ...

, Menorca in 1812, the son of

William Bowman Felton William Bowman Felton (1782 – June 30, 1837) was a British naval officer, political figure in Lower Canada, and in his time the most influential man at Sherbrooke, Quebec. He was born in Gloucester, England in 1782. He was the son of John Fel ...

, and came to Lower Canada with his family in 1815. They settled near Sherbrooke. Felton studied law at Quebec City with Andrew Stuart and Henry Black, was called to the bar in 1834 and set up practice at Quebec. In 1835, he married Clara, the daughter of Thomas Lloyd, a surgeon in the British army. Felton served as crown attorney for Saint-François district from 1853 to 1861 and was bâtonnier for the district from 1861 to 1875. In 1854, he was named Queen's Counsel. In 1854, he was elected to the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper C ...

for the united counties of Sherbrooke and Wolfe as a Liberal-Conservative. He defended the system of separate schools in the province when

Joseph Papin Joseph Papin (December 14, 1825 – February 23, 1862) was a lawyer and political figure in Canada East. He served on the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and founded the Institut canadien de Montréal Career He was born in L' ...

proposed a non-denominational school system. His wife Clara helped establish the Collège Mont-Notre-Dame at Sherbrooke. He died at Sherbrooke in 1877. His sister Eliza Margaret married Thomas Cushing Aylwin, who also served in the legislative assembly and was later named a judge.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Felton, William Locker Pickmore 1812 births 1877 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East Canadian King's Counsel