Henry Aylmer was a Canadian

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 soldier and politician.

Born in Melbourne

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, Canada East

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, the son of Udolphus Aylmer, 7th Baron Aylmer and Mary Journeaux, Aylmer was educated at High School in Montreal and the Royal Naval College

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 in Portsmouth

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, England

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. He served in the Canadian militia during the Fenian raids

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 and was a Lieutenant in the Royal Marine Artillery. He organized the Richmond Field Battery in 1876 and held command until November 1887, when he retired with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1870, he married Louisa Blanche Fanny Howe. Aylmer practised law in his home town of Melbourne. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 for the electoral district of Richmond—Wolfe

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 in a 1874 by-election. A Liberal

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, he was elected in the 1874 federal election

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. He was defeated in 1878

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 and again in 1896

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. Aylmer died in Lennoxville

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at the age of 75.