Family tree of Robert BORDEN

Canadian politician

Canadian Born Robert Laird BORDEN

Canadian lawyer and politician

Born on July 26, 1854 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, Canada , Switzerland

Died on June 10, 1937 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Born on july 26 43

Deceased on june 10 31

Canadian politician 57

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Borden

Perry

1739 - 1805

Eells

Mary

1745 - 1831

Fuller

Timothy

Elizabeth

Lathrop

John

1738 - 1789

Denison

Eunice

1745 -

Borden

Perry

1773 - 1862

Fuller

Lavinia

1783 - 1825

Laird

John

1783 - 1842

Lathrop

Julia

1790 - 1880

Borden

Andrew

1816 -

Laird

Eunice Jane

1825 - 1881

Borden

Robert Laird

1854 - 1937

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Robert Laird Borden was born and educated in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, a farming community at the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley, where his great-grandfather Perry Borden, Sr. of Tiverton, Rhode Island had taken up Acadian land in 1760. Perry had accompanied his father, Samuel Borden, the chief surveyor chosen by the government of Massachusetts to survey the former Acadian land and draw up new lots for the Planters in Nova Scotia. Robert Borden was the last Canadian Prime Minister born before Confederation. Borden's father Andrew Borden was judged by his son to be "a man of good ability and excellent judgement", of a "calm, contemplative and philosophical" turn of mind, but "He lacked energy and had no great aptitude for affairs". His mother Eunice Jane Laird was more driven, possessing "very strong character, remarkable energy, high ambition and unusual ability". Her ambition was transmitted to her first-born child, who applied himself to his studies while assisting his parents with the farm work he found so disagreeable. His cousin Sir Frederick Borden was a prominent Liberal politician.