Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British North American Provinces, 3rd Session, 8th Provincial Parliament of Canada

Quebec: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1865. Hardcover. Poor. Book is missing both front and back boards. Spine is still present. All pages are present. Name of RH Thornton, Date of 1877 and note "Presented to the Library Association, Portland, OR: Oct 1887" Copy belonged to Richard Hopwood Thorton (his name and a date of 1877 is on the ffep) who was the founder and first Dean of the University of Oregon Law School. The son of a prominent English Wesleyan clergyman and Latin tutor, Richard Hopwood Thornton was born in 1845 in Didebury, Lancashire, England. After attending New Kingswood School near Bath, he passed the entrance examination for Oxford University in 1862, but instead entered a London business house. After a visit to Paris in 1870 he went to Canada in 1871 where he taught school in various places. Receiving a small legacy from his mother in 1874, he travelled throughout North America, attended Columbia University law school in Washington, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1878. The previous year he had married Martha Sproul, with whom he had one child who died in infancy. In 1884 Thornton received an invitation from Judge Matthew P. Deady to come to Oregon and serve as the first dean of the University of Oregon law school. Thornton accepted the position and held the post in Portland for the next nineteen years.