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ANDREW LEARMONT SPEDON, The Datinguishment of a Bright Literary Right Lamented Death. A literary light of modest brilliancy has gone out before the blast of the fell lost one of its armamenta. Andrew Learmont Speton was one of a class quite rare—the enthusiastic poet who, in wooten the muse, has not lost appli cation and energy for the vexatious and never ending cares of newspaper editing and managing. The writer was among those whose friendship with him was a result of one of his pleasant visits to Kingston, and which has led to many happy exchanges of good will. . Sin cerely we join in the earnest regrets over his demise. Mr. Spedon was born in Edinburgh in 1881, was a lineal descendant of Thomas Learmont, a knight who nourishes co temporary with Sir William Wallace, all who was Scotland's first poet. While yet a child Mr. Spedon emigrated with his prrents to Amenca. The vessel ran wrecked upon Cape Rosier, 400 miles east of Quebec, and 150 pas sengers were thrown upon a barren shore destitute, and remained for a month amidst privations innumerable, subsisting chiefly upon fish. After a residence of four years in Montreal they purchased property in Cheteauguay, and in the surrounding country A. L. Spedon spent the greater portion of his early life. In later years he travelled all over this continent and to Europe His hereditary talent found vent io many literary productions of acknow ledged worth, among them the “ Wood land Warbler,” “ Tales of the Canadian Forests,” “Rambles among the Blue Noses, “Canadian Summer F Evening Tales,” “Canadian Minstrel,” “Sketches of a Tour from Canada to Paris.” He ‘Possessed a keen sense of humour, un sullied by that profane levity so often the accompaniment of such a tempera ment. About twelve years ago he began the publication of the Newksmmon at Orms town, P.Q., which he disposed of in 188), being obliged to remove to Ber muda, owing to illness, first contracted by exposure in a night drive upon the St. Lawrence. At Hamilton, in the sunny isle, he started the ex Abe, and brought credit through it to the press of that colony. Being of a genial disposition he made a wide circle of friends wherever he lived. What better epitaph could any one hope for than this written of him by cotemporary :— The memory of his the welfare of others, is like sweet in cense wafted in the midst of gentle zephyr, hovering over and acting as a soothing balm to the heartfelt regret , and it is a melancholy pleasure to pay this tribute to the whole-souled, noble and intelligent gentleman.
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Kingston Daily British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Mon, Oct 20, 1884
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