(5 Jan. 1791-22 Aug. 1872), clergyman. Born at Williamstown, GC. Parents: Rev. John Bethune and his wife Veronica (Véronique) Waddens. He was a student of the Rev. John Strachan in Kingston and Cornwall. He was ordained as a Church of England clergyman in 1814 (though his father had been a Presbyterian), settled in Montreal in 1818 as the clergyman of Christ Church, was prominent in the religious life of the city, and in later years was rector and dean of Christ Church Cathedral. He was acting principal of McGill University 1835-1846. John Bethune, who died in Montreal, had no known connections with GC after 1815. See the note on GC and Anglicanism in the life of his brother A.N. Bethune. John Bethune was married in 1816 to Elizabeth Hallowell. Their daughter Mary Martha was married in 1849 to the future Canadian prime minister John Abbott.

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