Hon. Adrian Knatchbull Hugessen

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Margaret C Duggan Edward Hugessen Kenneth Hugessen Andrew Hugessen Margaret Hugessen James Hugessen Hon. Adrian Knatchbull Hugessen 1 2 Marriage: Margaret C Duggan   Noted events in his life were: • profession: Senator. 3 Adrian married Margaret C Duggan, daughter of George Herrick Duggan and Mildred Scarth Stevenson. (Margaret C Duggan was born in 1899 1.)

1 George Herrick Duggan, copy of same in possession of Richard (Dick) Duggan of Kelowna, B.C., 4 pages of descendant charts.

2 Toronto Star?.
HERRICK DUGGAN NOTED ENGINEER KILLED BY CAR

Native of Toronto, Leading Figure in Sport, Finance and Industry, Victim of Accident in Quebec

One of the "grand old men" of Canadian Engineering and a leading figure in Canada's sport, finance and industry, Herrick Duggan died instantly of injuries received in a three-car accident near St. Jerome, Que., yesterday. He was struck by his own automobile from which he had alighted. A truck, struck by a third car, crashed into Mr. Duggan's auto and hurled it against him. The impact broke his neck. [some details of a previous injury]

Born in Toronto Sept. 6th, 1862, George Herrick Duggan was the son of John Duggan, Queen's Council, and Amelia Tulloh Duggan. The family home was in Windsor street, then a private street, a fashionable area overlooking the harbour and enclosed by iron gates. The Duggans came to York shortly after Simcoe founded it, and had an estate up Yonge street, below Thornhill, with a mill and salmon fishery, ere the 18th century ended.

SURVEYED FOR CPR
[details]
But he was interested in sailing from his early boyhood, and was one of the pioneers of sailing on Toronto Island.

HONORED BY COLLEGES
He held two honorary LL.D. degreees, from Queens's and McGill, as well as the D. Sc he gained at Toronto.

[career details], president and managing director of the Dominion Bridge Co, [etc, etc.]

SONS DIED IN WAR
Mr. Duggan was the father of two sons, both of whom he lost in the First Great War. Lt. H.S. Duggan, RE, being killed in action in 1915, and Major K. L. Duggan in 1917. His daughter is the wife of Senator the Hon. Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen

He held the Royal Humane Society medal for saving life on Lake St. Louis, awarded in 1893.

An inquest will be held, it was announced today.
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Toronto Evening Telegram, 1946

[deatails of the fatal car accident]

Herrick Duggan's figure stands high on Canada's horizon. Born in Toronto, and great grandson of that Col. Duggan whose venerable figure is seen in the early photograph of the last muster of Toronto veterans of the War of 1812, he did more for this country than even his valiant ancestor.

[details of his engineering career inc. the building of the the Quebec Bridge, spanning the St. Lawrence River above Wolfe's Cove. ]

[details of his sailing career and yacht designs]

3 Toronto Star?.

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