Bartholomew Gugy (1796-1876)

He is popularly remembered as, "a remarkable man of many accomplishments, and an advocate of ability," but he was also the subject of a damning article published by his brother-in-law, Thomas Willan: "In the courts a liar, in the City a firebrand, in the press a libeller, in the street a bully, on the field a coward... a noted common barrator moving suits by straw plaintiffs, as the modern parricide who hastened his parents to the grave, sought to incarcerate his father, sold him out by auction, ruined him by falsification of his accounts and a series of unmatched contrivances of the swindler, and insulted his mother's funeral, at which he paraded himself in a bottle green cut-away coat... an habitual wine-bibber and secret drinker, and a wholesale opium-eater, of having stabbed Judge Thompson, used foul play on the ground to Hart at Quebec, and Grant at Three Rivers, and refused the challenges of McCord and Ryland". He married Louise-Sophie, daughter of The Hon. Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, Seigneur of Beauport, and had two daughters, Lady Aemilius Irving and Mrs William E. Holmes.