Trutch, William
William Trutch was the father of British Columbia’s first Lieutenant Governor, Sir Joseph William Trutch.1 He trained as a solicitor and was posted as a Clerk of the Peace in St John’s, Jamaica, and he also served as a lieutenant in the Port Royal militia.2 The Trutch family returned from Jamaica to Somerset, England in 1834.3
William encouraged Joseph to seek a position with the Colonial Office when his son displayed an interest in moving to the colonies, and secured a recommendation from Sir E. Bulwar-Lytton, which he sent to Governor James Douglas on 16 September 1858.4 This recommendation would launch Joseph Trutch’s professional and political career in British Columbia.
  • 1. Hollis R. Lynch, Sir Joseph William Trutch, A British-American Pioneer on the Pacific Coast , Pacific Historical Review 30, 3, 1961, 243.
  • 2. Ibid.
  • 3. Robin Fisher, Trutch, Sir Joseph William, Dictionary of Canadian Biography 13, 1994.
  • 4. Ibid.
Mentions of this person in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. Trutch, William. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/trutch_w.html.

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