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Gilpin, Rev. Edwin, D.D., Senior Canon of St. Luke’s Cathedral and Archdeacon of Nova Scotia, Halifax. This learned divine was born in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, on the 10th of June, 1821. His parents were Edwin and Eliza Gilpin. On his father’s side he is descended from a long line of illustrious ancestors, among others Richard De Guylpyn, to whom in 1206 the Baron of Kendal gave the manor of Kentmore, in Westmoreland, England. There fourteen generations of the family lived, and there was born, in 1517, Bernard Gilpin, well known as the “Apostle of the North.” The manor was lost in consequence of the loyalty of the family to King Charles the First. The Rev. Edwin Gilpin, the subject of our sketch, was educated at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and in 1847 received the degree of B.A., in 1850 the degree of M.A., in 1853 that of B.D., and in 1863 the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him. In 1848 he received the appointment of master of the Halifax Grammar School; then he was made master of the Halifax High School, and then followed his promotion to the principalship of the Halifax Academy. In 1864 he was inducted as canon of St. Luke’s Cathedral (Episcopal); and in 1874 he was made archdeacon. He has taken an active interest in education, and done a good deal to place the public schools of his native province on a satisfactory footing. Rev. Mr. Gilpin is a firm adherent of the Church of England, and belongs to the so-called High Church party. He is married to Amelia, daughter of the late Hon. Justice Haliburton, of Windsor, N.S., who is well known as an author under the nom de plume of “Sam Slick.” Rev. Mr. Gilpin’s eldest son is a gentleman of considerable literary ability, and has prepared for and read before the North British Society of Engineers and the Royal Society of Canada, papers on the mining industries of the Dominion.