(1 April 1793-13 Oct. 1841), banker. Born at Williamstown, GC. Parents: Rev. John Bethune and his wife Veronica (Véronique) Waddens. Educated at Rev. John Strachan’s school in Cornwall, he settled at Cobourg where he was active as a merchant and as a banker and in other lines of business. He went bankrupt in 1834, and died at Rochester, N.Y. He was married (1830) to Martha Covert. Like his brothers, he had no evident connection with GC in his adult years.

Life in Dictionary of Canadian Biography VII and MDict * P. Baskerville in Victorian Cobourg, ed. J.Petryshyn (1976)