Bartholomew Gugy
Canadian politician
Died when: 79 years 218 days (955 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy (6 November 1796 – 11 June 1876) represented Sherbrooke in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.
He played a prominent military role in the Lower Canada Rebellion as Colonel of the cavalry at the Battle of Saint-Charles, afterwards seizing the Column of Liberty and carrying it in triumph back to Montreal.
He was Police Magistrate at Montreal and Adjutant-General to the Militia of Lower Canada.He lived between Montreal and his father's manor house at Beauport.
He was a large landowner having also inherited the Seigneuries of Yamachiche, Rivière-du-Loup, Grandpré, Grosbois, and Dumontier.
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