Monarch Elizabeth II Awards Order of Canada Role Medical Doctor | Preceded by Frederick Russell Name Arthur House Succeeded by Edward Roberts | |
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Governor General Romeo LeBlanc
Adrienne Clarkson Premier Brian Tobin
Beaton Tulk
Roger Grimes Born August 10, 1926
Glovertown, Newfoundland ( 1926-08-10 ) Died October 17, 2013, St. John's, Canada Education Dalhousie University (1952) | ||
Arthur Maxwell House, OC (August 10, 1926 – October 17, 2013) was a Canadian neurologist and the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Born in Glovertown, he graduated from medical school at Dalhousie University in 1952. He then specialized in neurology, at the Montreal Neurological Institute, becoming the only neurologist, in 1959, in the province until 1966.
He helped create the medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland and worked thirty years there as a professor of neurology and held several administrative position. He retired in 1993.
In 1997, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In 1989, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 2005.
He died at St. John's in 2013.