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Stephen Butler Leacock, 1869-1944,

was born in the Isle of Wight and came to Canada in 1876 where he lived on an Ontario farm, on Lake Simcoe, for six years. After five years at Upper Canada he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1891 and later from the University of Chicago. He was made head of the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill in 1908 and held that position till his retirement in 1936. Professor Leacock published over forty volumes of essays, biography, history, economics, political science, satire, humour and nonsense. Many of his works were translated into French, Russian, Chinese and German. In addition to two degrees received in course (B.A., Toronto; Ph.D., Chicago) he received honorary degrees from Brown, Dartmouth, Queens, Toronto, Bishop’s and McGill.