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| <tab>It has been speculated that having King as its MP preserved for GC a little longer than would otherwise have been the case the honour, poorly based as it was in terms of the county’s small population, of being a parliamentary constituency in its own right. (Ostrom) Ewan Ross wrote that this distinguished MP “did little for the county and had no real connection with it” (MacGillivray & Ross 538) but the first of these charges was equally true for many of the GC MPs, and the very favour and notice of so great a person as a prime minister must be supposed to bestow a benefit in their own right, just as a president or prime minister does honour to a university by accepting its honorary degree. It has been reported that some of the GC Liberals hoped that as a result of getting King the GC seat, GC might again have a senator. The wistful and bullheaded notion that in some way GC (or even Alexandria) was “entitled” to a senator survived by decades the thirty years during which Dr Donald MacMillan, of Alexandria, was a member of the Senate. | <tab>It has been speculated that having King as its MP preserved for GC a little longer than would otherwise have been the case the honour, poorly based as it was in terms of the county’s small population, of being a parliamentary constituency in its own right. (Ostrom) Ewan Ross wrote that this distinguished MP “did little for the county and had no real connection with it” (MacGillivray & Ross 538) but the first of these charges was equally true for many of the GC MPs, and the very favour and notice of so great a person as a prime minister must be supposed to bestow a benefit in their own right, just as a president or prime minister does honour to a university by accepting its honorary degree. It has been reported that some of the GC Liberals hoped that as a result of getting King the GC seat, GC might again have a senator. The wistful and bullheaded notion that in some way GC (or even Alexandria) was “entitled” to a senator survived by decades the thirty years during which Dr Donald MacMillan, of Alexandria, was a member of the Senate. |
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| <tab>For King’s early connections with a distinguished family of GC origins, and the belief that he came close to marrying a daughter of the family, see James Bethune. See also [[macpherson_alexander|Alexander Macpherson]], newspaperman. | <tab>For King’s early connections with a distinguished family of GC origins, and the belief that he came close to marrying a daughter of the family, see [[bethune_james|James Bethune]]. See also [[macpherson_alexander|Alexander Macpherson]], newspaperman. |
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