Britton Bath Osler

Britton Bath Osler was a Canadian lawyer and prosecutor.

The older of three famous brothers , he was born in Bond Head, Canada West. His father, Featherstone Lake Osler , the son of a shipowner at Falmouth, Cornwall, was a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and served on H.M.S. Victory. In 1831 he was invited to serve on H.M.S. Beagle as the science officer on Charles Darwins historic voyage to the Galpagos Islands, but he turned it down as his father was dying. As a teenager Featherstone Osler was aboard H.M.S. Sappho when it was nearly destroyed by Atlantic storms and left adrift for weeks. Serving in the Navy, he was shipwrecked off Barbados. In 1837 he retired from the Navy and emigrated to Canada, becoming a saddlebag minister in rural Upper Canada. On arriving in Canada he and his bride were nearly shipwrecked again on Egg Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Brittons great grandfather, Edward Osler, was variously described as either a merchant seaman or a pirate, and one of Brittons uncles, a medical officer in the Navy, wrote the

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