George MacKinnon Wrong was a Canadian

Canada

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 clergyman and historian.

Born at Grovesend in Elgin County, Canada West (now Ontario

Ontario

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), he was ordained in the Anglican

Anglican Church of Canada

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 priesthood in 1883 after attending Wycliffe College

Wycliffe College

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. In 1894, as successor to Sir Daniel Wilson, he was appointed Professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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. He retired in 1927.

In 1886, he married Sophia Hume Blake, the daughter of Edward Blake

Edward Blake

Dominick Edward Blake, PC, QC , known as Edward Blake, was the second Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887...

, Premier of Ontario (1871 to 1872) and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (1880 to 1887). They had five children: missionary Margaret Christian Wrong (1887–1948), historian and Oxford academic Edward Murray Wrong (1889–1928), British Army

British Army

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 officer Harold Verschoyle Wrong (born 1891 and was killed in action in the 1916 Battle of the Somme during World War I

World War I

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) , diplomat Humphrey Hume Wrong (1894–1954), and Agnes Honoria Wrong.

All of the Wrong children and their father were graduates of the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

.

Selected works

• The Conquest of New France (1910)
• The Fall of Canada (1914)
• The United States and Canada: A Political Study (1921)
• The Rise and Fall of New France (1928)
• Britain's History (1929)
• Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire (1935)

External links

• George MacKinnon Wrong at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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