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Scotland has made valuable
contribution to the citizenship of Edmonton and among those whose
venturesome spirit led them to leave the land of the hills and heather
and seek the countless opportunities for advancement to be found in
western Canada is numbered John Farquhar Lymburn, who is successfully
engaged in the practice of law in this city, in which he has made his
home since 1911. He was born at Ayr, in 1880, and is a son of William
and Margaret (Farquhar) Lymburn, who were married in 1875. Both are
natives of that country and are still alive, and his father has reached
the age of eighty-seven years.
After completing a course
in the public schools of his native town John F. Lymburn entered Ayr
Academy, leaving that institution in 1896, when he was articled in a law
office in Ayr. In 1901 he took the law classes at Glasgow University,
and passed the final law agent's examinations in 1904. In 1906 his name
was enrolled upon the register of law agents in Scotland and he began
his professional career in Glasgow, later going to Hamilton, Scotland,
where he remained until 1911. In the spring of that year he came to
western Canada and has since made his home in Edmonton. Entering the law
office of Messrs. Short & Cross, he remained with that firm for a year
and -I and then opened an office of his own, and has built up an
extensive practice in all branches of law work.
Mr. Lymburn was married
in this city, on the 19th of July, 1912, to Miss Isabel Marguerite
Clark, a daughter of the late Chief Constable John Clark of Hamilton,
Scotland, and they have three daughters: Marguerite Dormer, Mary Doreen
and Constance Clark. Mr. Lymburn is a member of the First Presbyterian
church and is a Liberal in politics. His interests are not confined to
his profession. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Beulah
Rescue Home and a member of the board of Robertson College of Edmonton. |
