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LOCKHART, CHRISTOPHER (1820-1887)

LOCKHART, CHRISTOPHER, Methodist minister, Miramichi circuit, 1849-52; b. Parrsboro, N.S., 18 Mar 1820, s/o John Beriah Lockhart and Rebecca Barker; m. 1847, Mary Rebecca Mulhall, of Liverpool, N.S.; d. there, 10 Nov 1887.

Christopher Lockhart was descended from an early Nova Scotia family, several members of which were identified with the religious life of the province. His father was "an old time Wesleyan type, an exhorter and prayer leader." His aunt Miriam Lockhart was the wife of the Rev. Charles Tupper, a Baptist minister. She and her husband were the parents of Sir Charles Tupper, premier of Nova Scotia and prime minister of Canada, who was thus his first cousin.

Lockhart taught school for a time before entering the Methodist ministry on trial in 1842. Received into 'full connexion' in 1846, he was stationed at Bathurst prior to accepting appointment as superintendent of the Miramichi circuit in 1849. When his term ended three years later he went to Aylesford, N.S. Except for four years in Newfoundland in the late 1850s his ministry was based in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. "He was a man of integrity and conscience" who "could not be wrongly influenced."

In 1879 Lockhart retired in Liverpool, N.S., where he died eight years later. He was survived by his wife, Mary R. Mulhall, as well as a son and two daughters.

Sources

[b] Eagles [m] NB Courier 9 Oct 1847 [d] St Andrews Pilot 24 Nov 1887; Betts (BB); Cornish; Smith


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