Sir Charles Tupper
- 5 March 1959
- journal article
- other
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 260 (10) , 489-490
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195903052601009
Abstract
CHARLES Tupper, the son of a Baptist minister, was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1821. The family was poor, and money was borrowed to enable him to complete his medical education at Edinburgh University, where he was granted the diplomas of M.D. and L.R.C.P. After graduating he practiced in his home town for eleven years before entering the political arena. In 1855 he ran against and defeated Joseph Howe, the renowned leader of the Government in the colonial legislative assembly. He became a member of the Government two years later and by 1864 had been appointed premier.Tupper was . . .Keywords
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