====== Devaux, Lionel Charles ====== (26 Oct. 1897-27 Feb. 1981), businessman. (Lionel Devaux) Born in Castries, St. Lucia, in the the British West Indies. Parents: Lionel Devaux, Senior, and his wife Therese Chastanet. Lionel Devaux the subject of the present entry was educated at Stonyhurst, the famous Roman Catholic college in England, and graduated in agriculture from the University of London’s agricultural college at Wye in Kent. He was married 21 June 1921, at St. John’s, Antigua, West Indies, to Ida Frances Percival. (one child) In 1927, he came to Canada. Having been in business in Montreal as an export and import merchant, Lionel Devaux moved to Williamstown in 1938 or 1939, when he bought the farm property of Col. D.M. Robertson, said to have amounted at that time to 1,000 acres. There Devaux raised purebred Ayrshires, Aberdeen Angus beef cattle and race horses. Thoroughbred horse racing was an interest close to his heart. His Williamstown property included the historic Manor House. He was the Progressive Conservative candidate for GC in the provincial election of 3 Aug. 1943, but was defeated by the Liberal candidate Eddie MacGillivray. Again, Devaux was the Progressive Conservative candidate for GC in the federal election of 11 June 1945. In his election manifesto he commended his Liberal opponent Dr MacDiarmid as a man, but complained about him as a King government supporter. GC, Devaux argued, had been neglected in federal war spending. “Let us look around us and see what has been done for the counties that surround us whilst we remain forgotten. Consider the munitions plants and training camps at Cornwall the airfields at St. Eugene and Pendleton the plants and factories and housing developments at Brownsburg at St. Polycarpe, at St. Hubert.” But GC, he said, could “not even boast of one poor sub-contract still in operation” (“To the Electors of Glengarry County,” //Glengarry News// 8 June 1945) He was defeated in the election by Dr MacDiarmid. The fine barns on his Williamstown property were destroyed in a fire, 6 July 1954. (//GN// 8 July 1954) Lionel Devaux died at Englewood, Fla, and is buried at Englewood. He was a Roman Catholic. ---- Private information * Dumbrille, //U//, 28-31 * Roderick Lewis 96 * //Williamstown 200// 19 * chosen provincial candidate, biog. sketch, //Standard Freeholder// 16 July 1943, chosen federal candidate, //SFH// 14 April 1944 [<6>]