Andrew Gault

Brigadier General Andrew Hamilton Gault DSO, MP was a Canadian Army officer and British politician. At his own expense, he raised the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, the last privately raised regiment in the British Empire. Hatch Court in Somerset today houses a small museum commemorating Gaults military career. From 1924 to 1935 he was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Taunton, Somerset. Returning to Quebec after World War II, Gault vigilantly defended his estate of Mont SaintHilaire from expropriation by mining interests and bequeathed it to McGill University to help ensure its preservation.

Known as Hammie, he was born in England, the only son of a native of Strabane, Andrew Frederick Gault , of Rokeby in Montreals Golden Square Mile and his wife Louise Sarah Harman , daughter of Henry B. Harman, of Surrey. His middle name, which he used as his first, was for his paternal grandmothers family, the Hamiltons of Fintra House, near Killybegs, Co. Donegal. His uncles included The Hon. Matthew Hamilton Gault and Sir James Welsh Skelton, and when his father died in 1915, he, his mother and sister inherited just over 1.3 million each.

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