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    Stephen Leacock

    Canadian writer and economist

    Stephen P. H. Butler LeacockFRSC (30 månad &#;– 28 March ) was a Canadian teacher, political forskare, writer, and humourist. Between the years and , he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.[1] He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.[2]

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    Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December in Swanmore,[4] a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's Madeira wine, founded in Stephen's mother, Agnes, was born at Soberton, the youngest daughter by his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer) of the Rev. Stephen Butler, of Bury Lodge, the Butler estate that overlooke

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    The following biographical account of Stephen Leacock's life represents a general synthesis of several biographers' work: Ralph Curry's Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Humanist (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ); Robertson Davies's Stephen Leacock (Canadian Writers, no. 7. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, pp. ); James Doyle's Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia (Toronto: ECW Press, ); David Legate's Stephen Leacock: A Biography (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, ).

    Stephen Butler Leacock was born on December 30, , at Swanmore, Hampshire, England, the third of a family of eleven children. His parents were Peter Leacock and Agnes Emma Butler. Peter was 18 and Agnes 22 when they were secretly married on New Year's Day in The Leacocks and the Butlers had had a long-standing friendship and Peter and Agnes had spent holidays together since infancy. Peter was charming and witty b

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    Stephen (Butler) Leacock was born in Swanmoor, Hampshire, on December 30, , and came to Canada in He was educated at Upper Canada College, Strathroy Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto (B.A. ). He taught modern languages at Upper Canada College in Toronto from to Then he undertook graduate studies at the University of Chicago and obtained his PhD in He lectured at McGill University's Department of Economics and Political Science from to , as chair of the department from In he published Elements of Political Science (Boston: Houghton; B Fisher Rare Book Library): it was successful and went into a new edition in He was known and loved, internationally, as a humorist. Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (), Nonsense Novels (), Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (), and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich () were just the first of his odd popular books. In , when he retired from McGill, he spoke out on the Great Depressi