Stewart Derbishire

Stewart Derbishire (1794 or 1795 – March 27, 1863) was the first elected representative for Bytown for the Province of Canada.

He was born in England around 1794. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1830. He later worked for a time as a journalist and fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1837. He came to New York in 1838 to gather information on the Rebellion of 1837 on behalf of Lord Durham. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of United Canada in 1841, having been sponsored by Lord Sydenham. He was the Queen's Printer from 1841 until his death in Quebec City in 1863.

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online