carried on. In August he informed his first cousin Edward Ellice that he was "on the best of terms" with Governor Lord Aylmer and "an intimate and old friend" of Aylmer's civil secretary, John Baskerville Glegg, and he offered to use these advantages to promote the development of Ellice's seigneury of Villechauve, more commonly known as Beauharnois, the management of which Forsyth, Richardson had long supervised. Forsyth spent his last years in Britain, where he died in 1837. Forsyth, Richardson & Co., survived until 1847 when it and Forsyth, Walker and Company were dissolved. References External links John Forsyth in the Canadian Dictionary of National Biography John Forsyth in The Quebec History Encyclopedia 1762 births 1867 deaths People from Huntly Businesspeople from Montreal United Empire Loyalists Members of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada Scottish emigrants to Canada