{{Short description|Canadian banker and baronet (1849–1912)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person |name = Sir Edward Clouston, Bt |image = Edward Clouston.png |birth_name = Edward Seaborne Clouston |birth_date = {{Birth date|1849|05|09}} |birth_place = Moose Factory, Rupert's Land |death_date = {{Death date and age|1912|11|23|1849|05|09}} |death_place = Montreal, Quebec |employer = Bank of Montreal |occupation = Banker |spouse = Annie Easton |children = 2 daughters }} '''Sir Edward Seaborne Clouston, 1st Baronet''' (May 9, 1849 – November 23, 1912) was a Canadian banker and financier who became the General Manager of the Bank of Montreal.
==Life and career== He was born in Moose Factory to James Stewart Clouston (1826–1874),<ref>{{Cite web| title=NAME: CLOUSTON, James Stewart PARISH: Stromness, Orkney | url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/_docs/hbca/biographical/c/clouston_james_stewart1842-1874.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121010501/https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/_docs/hbca/biographical/c/clouston_james_stewart1842-1874.pdf | archive-date=2022-01-21}}</ref> the last Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and his wife Margaret, daughter of Robert Seaborn Miles (1795–1870), in his time also Chief Factor for the HBC and Sheriff of Rupert's Land.<ref name = "EoC">W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Canada'', Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 85.</ref> His grandfather was agent for the HBC at Stromness on Orkney, where his family had lived since the end of the 17th century, descended from Richard Clouston (1626–1666), 16th of Clouston and Netherbigging, Stromness.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.clouston.co.uk/p706.htm |title=Clouston family of Stromness |access-date=2012-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727230532/http://www.clouston.co.uk/p706.htm |archive-date=2014-07-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Clouston received his education at the High School of Montreal and then worked for one year for the Hudson's Bay Company before commencing employment at the Bank of Montreal as a clerk in 1865.<ref name = "EoC" /> He became assistant general manager of the bank in 1887, general manager in 1890 and first vice-president in 1906. He was created a baronet in 1908.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28202 |date=4 December 1908 |page=9289}}</ref><ref name = "EoC" />
Clouston was elected president of the Canadian Bankers Association on several occasions and, in this capacity, advised successive Canadian Ministers of Finance.<ref name = "roots">"SIR EDWARD SEABORNE CLOUSTON" in ''Montreal, Pictorial and Biographical'' The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, 1914 (reproduced on rootsweb.com)[http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-w/CloustonES.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212193134/http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-w/CloustonES.html |date=2007-12-12 }}</ref>
He served as vice-president of the Royal Trust Company and as a director of the Guarantee Company of North America, the Canadian Cottons, Limited, the Canada Sugar Refining Company, the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, and the Kaministikwia Power Company. He was chairman of the Canadian board of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.<ref name = "roots" />
==Family== [[File:Loge du gardien - 170 chemin de Senneville - 05.JPG|thumb|A plaque at Clouston's former estate in Senneville, Quebec]] thumb|Marjory Clouston, c. 1902 In 1878, Clouston married Annie Easton, daughter of George Easton, Collector of Customs in Brockville, Ontario, and his wife Isabella Jane. She was born in Brockville and was educated at the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. The couple had two daughters, of whom one, Marjory Meredith Clouston (1882–1945), survived. She married John Lancelot Todd, professor of parasitology at McGill University, in 1911 and they were the parents of three daughters.
Lady Clouston was interested in charitable works. In 1895, she was elected vice-president of a committee to preserve Mount Royal Park. She was elected an office-bearer of the Woman's National Immigration Society. The family residences included a country house named ''Boisbriant'' at 170 Senneville Road in Senneville, Quebec, which was formerly owned by Sir John Abbott.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/57 57]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/futcher/fullrecord.php?I=FUT1_092-005_P#|title=Marjorie Howard Futcher - Full Record}}</ref>
His nephew, James Campbell Clouston, played a pivotal role during the Dunkirk evacuation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.selwyn.ca/news-detail?pk=1118305|title=Dunkirk hero was Selwyn House Old Boy|date=August 28, 2017|website=Selwyn House School}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{cite DCB |title=Clouston, Sir Edward Seaborne |first=|last=Carman Miller |volume=14 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/clouston_edward_seaborne_14E.html}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071212193134/http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-w/CloustonES.html SIR EDWARD SEABORNE CLOUSTON] from ''Montreal, Pictorial and Biographical'' (1914)
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