(11 Oct. 1897-8 May 1995), clergyman. (Rt. Rev. Harry Lennox) Born: Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng. Parents: the Rev. John Lennox and his wife Annie Taylor. Harry Lennox came to Canada with his family when he was about 8 years old, therefore about 1905. His father, the Rev. John Lennox (April 1875-21 July 1957), born at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, was minister of the Gordon Church, St. Elmo, GC, from May 1914 till April 1918. Harry Lennox, the subject of the present article, attended the Continuation School in Maxville. His poem on the war, “Our Heroes,” was published in the Glengarry News of 9 July 1915, the author being named as “H. Lennox” of St. Elmo. Directly from his secondary schooling, he joined the Canadian armed forces, and he served overseas. After the war, he studied at the University of Toronto and Knox College (Toronto), and was ordained in April 1925 as a Presbyterian minister. Afterwards, he was a minister in Ontario at Hamilton and Fort Frances, and at Banff, Alta., and, during the third of a century from 1937 till his retirement from the active ministry in 1973, at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church, Vancouver. In June 1963 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He was married to Helen E. Ellwood. In 1958, he received a D. D. from Knox College. He died at his home in Vancouver, aged 97, after being an ordained minister for 70 years. (three children surviving him)

The Presbyterian Record July-Aug. 1995, obituary also Acts and Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1995 * information from Archives, Presbyterian Church in Canada, includes typescript outlines of his life in Knox College Graduates and of his father in Walkington’s Biographies * obituary of his father, The Presbyterian Record, Oct. 1957 * MacMillan, Kirk, 190, 196, 455 * Maxville (1991) 149, 273-274, 384 (portrait 1915) * preaches in St. Andrew’s Church, Maxville, Glengarry News 31 Oct. 1963 * conducts funeral service in North Vancouver of Maxville-born Alexander Duncan MacRae (d. 21 Dec. 1977, in 90th year), a piper, formerly of 59th Battalion pipe band, GN 25 Jan. 1978 * notice of Lennox’s death, W. MacKinnon’s St. Elmo column, GN 19 July 1995