Charles Ernest Levey (b.1854)

He was born at Lee Park, Blackheath, Kent. He was brought up in Quebec but was educated in England at Cheltenham College and finished his studies in Switzerland. He was commissioned into the 78th Highlanders and rose to the rank of Captain before retiring in 1878 to pursue the life of a gentleman farmer with a pack of hounds and a breeder of thoroughbred horses and cattle. In 1879, at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, he married Catherine, daughter of Ambrose Cox J.P., D.L., of Clara, King's County. After touring the Continent, they returned to Canada where he bought the property known as "Kirk Ella" where he built "a handsome roomy mansion" opposite his childhood home, Cataraqui, which he inherited after his mother died.