Graham, Hugh, BaronAtholstan, newspaper publisher (b at Atholstan, Canada E 18 July 1848; d at Montréal 28 Jan 1938).
Partly owing to the Star's pressure, the LAURIER government decided to commit Canadian troops to the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
For his crusades during WWI (when his home was dynamited by anticonscriptionists), Graham was elevated to the peerage in 1917 as BaronAtholstan of Huntingdon, Qué, and Edinburgh, Scot.
Hugh Graham, 1st BaronAtholstan of Huntingdon (July 18, 1848–January 28, 1938) was a Canadian publisher of Scots-Quebec ancestry.
In May of 1917 he was created 1st BaronAtholstan, of Huntingdon in the province of Quebec in the Dominion of Canada, and of the City of Edinburgh by King George V.
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