Sir Allan MacNab | |
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![]() Portrait in 1853 by Théophile Hamel | |
Joint Premier of the Province of Canada | |
In office 11 September 1854 – 24 May 1856 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Governor General | Sir Edmund Walker Head |
Preceded by | Francis Hincks |
Succeeded by | John A. Macdonald |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Wentworth County | |
In office 1830–1834 | |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Hamilton | |
In office 1834–1841 | |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Hamilton | |
In office 1841–1857 | |
Preceded by | New position |
Succeeded by | Isaac Buchanan |
Personal details | |
Born | Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada | 19 February 1798
Died | 8 August 1862 Hamilton, Canada West | (aged 64)
Political party | Tory |
Profession | Lawyer and businessman |
Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet (19 February 1798 – 8 August 1862) was a Canadian political leader, land speculator and property investor, lawyer, soldier, and militia commander who served in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada twice (representing a different county – Wentworth and Hamilton – each time), the Legislative Assembly for the Province of Canada once, and served as joint Premier of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1856. MacNab was "likely the largest land speculator in Upper Canada during his time" as mentioned both in his official biography in retrospect and in 1842 by Sir Charles Bagot.[1]
MacNab was a member of the Family Compact in Upper Canada. He briefly shared a military regiment (the 49th Regiment of Foot) with another member (James FitzGibbon) in the War of 1812. MacNab was left out of the regiment following regimental cuts after the War of 1812, and found employment in the law office of another Family Compact members grandfather – George D'Arcy Boulton (aka D'Arcy Boulton Sr.)[1]