Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin, KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Background
Born in Aylmer, Quebec, the son of pioneer Aylmer mayor and merchant Charles Devlin (b Meera, County Roscommon) and Hellen Roney (b Stewarton, Scotland), and the last of nine children, Devlin was educated at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal and Mount Street Mary"s College in Derbyshire, England.
Education
He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree from McGill University and a Master of Arts degree from Laval University in Quebec.
Career
Called to the Quebec bar in 1895 and named King"s Counsel in 1906. Devlin practised law in Montreal until 1901 when he moved to Hull. Marie, pled many notable cases, both civil and criminal in nature, and served as solicitor for Wright County.
Devlin was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Wright in a 1905 by-election called after Wilfrid Laurier resigned his seat in Wright, having been elected for Quebec East also.
A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1908, 1911, and 1917. He died in office in 1921 in Montreal.
In 1907, Devlin married Cécile, the daughter of Louis-Rodrigue Masson, a former Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec.