Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th BaronAylmer (1775-1850) was a British military officer colonial administrator.
Lord Aylmer had no previous experience as a civil administrator and no political experience and was unable to pacify the growing demands in Lower Canada for responsible government and, in 1834, the radical Assembly of Lower Canada passed 92 resolutions of grievance including a demand that Aylmer be recalled.
Returning to England, Aylmer was promoted to the rank of general but he never obtained a British peerage (his dignity was in the Irish peerage), or another administrative post.
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