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Arthur Maxwell House
The Honourable Arthur Maxwell House (born August 10, 1926) is a Canadian neurologist and a former Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Born in Glovertown, Newfoundland , 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 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.
Categories: 1926 births | Canadian physicians | Lieutenant Governors of Newfoundland and Labrador | Members of the Order of Canada
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