Jim Conacher
Jim Conacher,
Dr. James Blennerhassett Mary Conacher, born 31st Oct 1916.
BA 1937,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Medal in History. MA 1938. Nuffield fellow.
Historian,
Dept. History,
University of Toronto.
He mar
Muriel Foley [born
Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada, Mar 1919].
Muriel was
dau of William Foley by his wife Helen Mary Coffey, dau of David Coffey and Bridget Manning.
See
Muriel Foley
on
tree
by
Carmelita Coffey
on Ancestry.
She was a
nurse in
WW2.
Jim was an
Associate Professor as at 1958.
He specialised in 19th century British history.
He contributed to
The Gladstonian turn of mind: essays presented to J.B. Conacher,
edited by Bruce L. Kinzer,
University of Toronto Press, 1985.
Co-edited the
Benjamin Disraeli Letters
vol 3 (1987)
and vol 4 (1989)
and vol 5 (1993).
They lived Toronto.
He was author of these books:
- Party Politics in the Age of Palmerston, 1959.
- The Aberdeen Coalition 1852-55, 1968.
- The Peelites and the Party System, 1846-52, 1972.
- Waterloo to the Common Market, 1975 (textbook).
- Britain and the Crimea, 1855-1856, 1987.
Jim died 1993, age 77 yrs.
Muriel lived Toronto, died June 2005, age 86 yrs.
Jim and Muriel
had issue:
- Madeline Conacher,
mar Louis Allen.
- Desmond Conacher.
DNA match with various people. See below.
He mar Kim Chown and had issue:
- Adam Conacher, mar Carolyn Ager and had issue:
- Benjamin Desmond Conacher.
- Madeline Catherine Conacher.
- Kate Anna Conacher.
- Megan Conacher, mar David Bastedo.
DNA matches
Desmond Conacher
is a
DNA match with all of the following:
Sources yet to be consulted