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♂ John Irving
aliasJohn Irving
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 2 4 6
Birth 24 November 1854 → 169 years + 5 months ago
Lived 81 years + 8 months
First mandate 10 September 1894 → 129 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 9 months
Death 10 August 1936 → 87 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 36 years + 2 months after 8 June 1900
Special notes
None
 
John Irving (1854–1936)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Irving was a British Columbia MLA from 1894 to 1900. But the account of historian Norman R. Hacking, who came to know him in his later years after politics, remembered him fondly: "The latter days of Captain Irving were sad. He gambled or gave his money away with gay abandon. In a few years his fine mansion in Victoria, his horses and stables, the accumulated wealth of a most successful business career: all were gone. The death of his only son Willie in the first Great War was a great blow, and the old man gallantly offered to enlist and take his son's place... In his later years Captain Irving lived in a small converted store on West Pender Street in Vancouver. With his tall spruce figure and his white goatee beard he was a very handsome gentleman. His favorite remark when meeting an old friend on the street was "How about a smile?" He died in 1936, poor in everything but friends."
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 5 7 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
9 documented challengers
⊖ Robert Beaven  m 
⊖ Simeon Duck  m 
⊖ George L. Milne  m 
⊖ John H. Turner  m 
⊖ Henry E. Young  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Charles W.D. Clifford  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John Grant  m 
⊖ James Stables  m 
⊖ Charles Wilson  m 
 
Eligible: 3,668 Votes: 7,179 Participation: 48.93% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
6		 British Columbia
13 June 1890
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28714(F) — 23 Dec 2023 14:53 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
35
GOV
 5/9 747 41.62% -104 Winner:
GOV
 851 47.41% John H. Turner
Eligible: 206 Votes: 147 Participation: 71.36% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
7		 British Columbia
10 September 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28729(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
GOV
 1/2 102 69.39% +57 Loser:
IND
 45 30.61% William Dalby

Service: 3 years 9 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 376 Votes: 318 Participation: 42.29% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
8		 British Columbia
6 August 1898
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28760(F) — 23 Jul 2023 21:52 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
GOV
 2/3 125 78.62% +80 Loser:
IND
 45 28.30% George S. McTavish
After his election:
10 Aug 1898 43
GOV
 →
OPPO
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
Service: 1 year 10 months 2 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,101 Votes: 1,037 Participation: 47.09% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
9		 British Columbia
9 June 1900
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28801(F) — 23 Jul 2023 22:23 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
45
IOPP
 3/4 244 47.01% -33 Winner:
IGOV
 277 53.37% James Stables
Eligible: 597 Votes: 124 Participation: 20.77% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 British Columbia
1 February 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28881(F) — 2 Mar 2022 22:12 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
52
LIB
 2/2 46 37.10% -32 Winner:
LC
 78 62.90% Henry E. Young
Eligible: 343 Votes: 172 Participation: 50.15% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 British Columbia
25 November 1909
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28920(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
55
LIB
 2/2 65 37.79% -42 Winner:
LC
 107 62.21% Henry E. Young

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
CPT John Irving		 25 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Irving (steamship captain)		 25 Feb 2024

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