# John Chalker Crosbie > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Chalker_Crosbie > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Chalker_Crosbie.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chalker_Crosbie > Source revision: 1347460343 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Newfoundland merchant and politician (1876–1932)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = [The Right Honourable](/source/The_Right_Honourable) |name = Sir John Chalker Crosbie |honorific_suffix = [KBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) |image = John Chalker Crosbie.png |caption = Crosbie in 1924 |office = 3rd [Prime Minister of Newfoundland](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Newfoundland) |term_start = {{start date|1917|12|31}} |term_end = {{end date|1918|01|05}} |monarch = [George V](/source/George_V) |governor = [Charles Alexander Harris](/source/Charles_Alexander_Harris) |predecessor = [Edward Morris](/source/Edward_Morris%2C_1st_Baron_Morris) |successor = [William Lloyd](/source/William_F._Lloyd) {{Collapsed infobox section begin | cont = yes | Legislative offices | titlestyle = border:1px dashed lightgrey; }} {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | constituency_AM1 = St. John's West | assembly1 = Newfoundland House of | term_start1 = {{start date|1924|06|02}} | term_end1 = {{end date|1928|10|29}} | alongside1 = [William J. Browne](/source/William_Joseph_Browne) and [William Linegar](/source/William_Linegar) | predecessor1 = [Michael Cashin](/source/Michael_Patrick_Cashin)
[Charles Hunt](/source/Charles_Edward_Hunt)
[Richard Squires](/source/Richard_Squires) | successor1 = [Alexander Campbell](/source/Alexander_Campbell_(Newfoundland_politician))
[Joseph Fitzgibbon](/source/Joseph_Fitzgibbon) (as MHAs for St. John's City West) | constituency_AM2 = Port de Grave | assembly2 = Newfoundland House of | term_start2 = {{start date|1919|11|03}} | term_end2 = {{end date|1923|05|03}} | predecessor2 = [George Grimes](/source/George_F._Grimes) | successor2 = [Harry A. Winter](/source/Harry_A._Winter) | constituency_AM3 = Bay de Verde | assembly3 = Newfoundland House of | term_start3 = {{start date|1908|11|02}} | term_end3 = {{end date|1919|11|03}} | alongside3 =
[Jesse Whiteway](/source/Jesse_Whiteway) (1908–1913)
[Albert Hickman](/source/Albert_Hickman) (1913–1919) | predecessor3 = [Charles H. Hutchings](/source/Charles_H._Hutchings)
[William C. Winsor](/source/William_C._Winsor) | successor3 = [William H. Cave](/source/William_H._Cave)
[Frederick LeGrow](/source/Frederick_LeGrow){{Collapsed infobox section end}} }} |birth_date = {{birth date|1876|9|11}} |birth_place = [Brigus](/source/Brigus), [Newfoundland Colony](/source/Newfoundland_Colony) |death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|10|5|1876|10|5}} |death_place = [St. John’s](/source/St._John's%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), [Newfoundland](/source/Dominion_of_Newfoundland) |spouse = {{marriage|Mitchie Ann Manuel|1899}} |children = 13 (including [Chesley](/source/Chesley_A._Crosbie) and [Vera](/source/Vera_Perlin)) |relatives = [John Crosbie](/source/John_Crosbie) (grandson)
[Ches Crosbie](/source/Ches_Crosbie) (great-grandson) |party = [People’s](/source/Newfoundland_People's_Party) (1908–1919)
[Liberal-Progressive](/source/Newfoundland_People's_Party) (1919–1923)
[Liberal-Labour-Progressive](/source/Newfoundland_People's_Party) (1923–1924)
[Liberal-Conservative Progressive](/source/Conservative_parties_in_Newfoundland_(pre-Confederation)) (1924–1928) }} '''Sir John Chalker Crosbie''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE}} (September 11, 1876 – October 5, 1932) was a [Newfoundland](/source/Dominion_of_Newfoundland) merchant and politician. == Early life and business career == Crosbie was born on September 11, 1876 in [Brigus](/source/Brigus) as the son of George Graham Crosbie and Martha Ellen (née Chalker).{{cite encyclopedia |last=Baker|first=Melvin|date=2016|title=Crosbie, Sir John Chalker|url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/crosbie_john_chalker_16E.html|encyclopedia=[Dictionary of Canadian Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography), volume 16|location=[Toronto](/source/Toronto) |publisher=[University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto) |access-date=24 March 2026}} An aggressive and energetic entrepreneur, he created a fortune (which he lost) and started the Crosbie dynasty. His son, [Chesley Crosbie](/source/Chesley_Crosbie),{{cite book |title=The Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948: Reports and papers |date=1995 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press}} and grandson, [John Crosbie](/source/John_Crosbie){{cite book|last=Crosbie|first=John|title=No Holds Barred: My Life in Politics|year=1997|publisher=McCellend and Stewart Inc.|isbn=0-7710-2427-4|pages=200–205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o55EtpA2H-oC&q=no+holds+barred+john+crosbie&pg=PA4}} were both affluent politicians. In 1900 Crosbie founded Crosbie and Co. and by 1920 was one of the leading fish exporters in [Newfoundland](/source/Newfoundland). == Politics == He entered politics as [MHA](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador_House_of_Assembly) for [Bay de Verde](/source/Bay_de_Verde) in 1908. After [Edward Morris](/source/Edward_Morris%2C_1st_Baron_Morris) resigned at the end of 1917, Crosbie served as [Prime Minister](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Newfoundland) in a caretaker capacity until 5 January 1918, when [William Lloyd](/source/William_F._Lloyd) took office. He was Minister of Shipping in 1919 and Minister of Finance and Customs under [Prime Minister](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Newfoundland) [Walter Monroe](/source/Walter_Stanley_Monroe) from 1924 to 1928.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/03/news/they-all-expected-die|title = 'We all expected to die': Author Anne Budgell recounts her research on the 1918 Spanish Flu in Labrador|date = 3 December 2018}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXecCgAAQBAJ&q=John+Chalker+Crosbie+spanish+flu|title = Encounters: An Anthropological History of Southeastern Labrador|isbn = 9780773583443|last1 = Kennedy|first1 = John C.|date = May 2015| publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP }} Crosbie was knighted KBE in 1919. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before =[Edward Morris](/source/Edward_Morris%2C_1st_Baron_Morris)}} {{s-ttl|title =[Prime Minister of Newfoundland](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Newfoundland)|years=1917-1918}} {{s-aft|after =[William Lloyd](/source/William_F._Lloyd)}} {{s-end}} {{NLPremiers}} ==External links== * {{cite web|url=http://www.janewfoundland.org/about.cfm?itemid=1341&smocid=675 |title=Newfoundland and Labrador Business Hall of Fame |accessdate=March 26, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213070208/http://www.janewfoundland.org/about.cfm?itemid=1341&smocid=675 |archivedate=February 13, 2006 }} * [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-john-chalker-crosbie/ Sir John Chalker Crosbie] at [The Canadian Encyclopedia](/source/The_Canadian_Encyclopedia) {{DEFAULTSORT:Crosbie, John}} Category:1876 births Category:1932 deaths Category:Businesspeople from Newfoundland and Labrador Category:Dominion of Newfoundland people Category:Newfoundland People's Party MHAs Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Category:Prime ministers of the Dominion of Newfoundland Category:20th-century members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly Category:Politics of the Dominion of Newfoundland --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Chalker Crosbie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chalker_Crosbie) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chalker_Crosbie?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.