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(1752–1806), British soldier and diplomat, born in Cotterstock, England. He served with the British forces during the American Revolution and in 1777 was given command of the Queen’s Rangers with the rank of major. Returning to England in 1781, Simcoe entered Parliament for Saint Mawes in Cornwall. In 1791 he was appointed lieutenant governor of the newly created province of Upper Canada (now Ontario Province). His administration was rendered ineffective by the impracticability of his projects and the friction that developed between him and the governor-general, Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester. Simcoe was one of the men who in 1794 founded the city of York, later Toronto. He left Canada in 1796 and was sent on a military and diplomatic mission to the French colony of Saint-Dominique, which the British had partly occupied. He returned to England the next year. In 1806 he was appointed commander in chief of the British forces in India but died before he could take up the post.
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