@prefix rdf: . @prefix dbo: . rdf:type dbo:Person . @prefix wikidata: . rdf:type wikidata:Q19088 , wikidata:Q215627 . @prefix ns3: . rdf:type ns3:NaturalPerson . @prefix yago: . rdf:type yago:Organism100004475 , yago:Object100002684 , yago:WikicatPeopleFromOrmskirk . @prefix foaf: . rdf:type foaf:Person , yago:Person100007846 , yago:Migrant110314952 , yago:Emigrant110051975 . @prefix owl: . rdf:type owl:Thing , wikidata:Q5 , dbo:Species . @prefix schema: . rdf:type schema:Person , yago:Traveler109629752 , yago:LivingThing100004258 , wikidata:Q729 , yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 , yago:Worker109632518 , yago:SkilledWorker110605985 , yago:CivilServant109925459 , yago:WikicatEnglishEmigrantsToCanada , yago:WikicatCanadianCivilServants , yago:YagoLegalActor , yago:YagoLegalActorGeo , yago:Whole100003553 , yago:Official110372373 , dbo:Animal , yago:CausalAgent100007347 , dbo:Eukaryote . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "John Langton (Canadian politician)"@en , "John Langton"@fr ; rdfs:comment "John Langton, n\u00E9 le 7 avril 1808 \u00E0 Blythe Hall, pr\u00E8s d'Ormskirk (Angleterre) et mort le 19 mars 1894 \u00E0 Toronto (Canada), est un homme politique et fonctionnaire britannico-canadien. Il est le premier v\u00E9rificateur g\u00E9n\u00E9ral du Canada."@fr , "John Langton (April 7, 1808 \u2013 March 19, 1894) was Canada's first Auditor General. He was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England in 1808 and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He emigrated to Upper Canada in 1833 and settled near Peterborough. He worked for a time in the timber trade. In 1841, he was elected to the council for the Colborne District, becoming warden in 1848. In 1851, Langton was elected to the Legislative Council for Peterborough; he was reelected in 1854. In 1855, he was appointed the Auditor of the Province of Canada and was also appointed as a member of the newly formed Board of Audit; he resigned his seat in the assembly the following year. He served as Auditor for the remaining tenure of the Province of Canada and the first decade of the Dominion of Canada; it was La"@en ; foaf:name "John Langton"@en . @prefix dbp: . dbp:name "John Langton"@en . @prefix dbr: . dbo:birthPlace dbr:Lancashire , dbr:Ormskirk ; dbo:deathPlace dbr:Toronto ; dbp:deathPlace dbr:Toronto . @prefix xsd: . dbo:deathDate "1894-03-19"^^xsd:date ; dbp:birthPlace "Ormskirk, Lancashire, England"@en ; dbo:birthDate "1808-04-07"^^xsd:date . @prefix dcterms: . dcterms:subject . @prefix dbc: . dcterms:subject dbc:People_from_Ormskirk , dbc:English_emigrants_to_Canada , dbc:Canadian_auditors , , dbc:Members_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Province_of_Canada_from_Canada_West , ; dbo:wikiPageID 5765546 ; dbo:wikiPageRevisionID 1082166718 ; dbo:wikiPageWikiLink dbr:Upper_Canada , dbr:Ormskirk , , dbr:The_Canadian_Encyclopedia , dbc:People_from_Ormskirk , dbc:English_emigrants_to_Canada , dbr:Legislative_Council_of_the_Province_of_Canada , dbc:Canadian_auditors , dbr:Canadian_Confederation , dbr:Toronto , , dbr:John_Lorn_McDougall , , dbr:Canadian_Institute , , dbr:Quebec_City , dbc:Members_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Province_of_Canada_from_Canada_West , , , dbr:Historica_Canada , dbr:Literary_and_Historical_Society_of_Quebec , dbr:Lancashire , dbr:Auditor_General_of_Canada , dbr:University_of_Toronto , ; dbo:wikiPageExternalLink . @prefix ns14: . dbo:wikiPageExternalLink ns14:john-langton , . @prefix ns15: . dbo:wikiPageExternalLink ns15:langton-john-family-fonds . @prefix dbpedia-fr: . owl:sameAs dbpedia-fr:John_Langton , , , wikidata:Q15489093 , , . @prefix ns17: . owl:sameAs ns17:XjB9 . @prefix dbt: . dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate dbt:Reflist , dbt:Cite_DCB , dbt:End , dbt:S-aft , dbt:Cite_encyclopedia , dbt:Short_description , dbt:S-bef , dbt:S-gov , dbt:S-ttl , dbt:Death_date_and_age , dbt:S-start , dbt:Birth_date , dbt:Authority_control , dbt:Infobox_person ; dbp:birthDate "1808-04-07"^^xsd:date ; dbp:deathDate "1894-03-19"^^xsd:date ; dbp:knownFor "First Auditor General of Canada"@en ; dbp:nationality "United Kingdom, Canada"@en ; dbp:occupation "Politician, Auditor General"@en ; dbp:title dbr:Auditor_General_of_Canada ; dbp:years 1867 ; dbo:abstract "John Langton, n\u00E9 le 7 avril 1808 \u00E0 Blythe Hall, pr\u00E8s d'Ormskirk (Angleterre) et mort le 19 mars 1894 \u00E0 Toronto (Canada), est un homme politique et fonctionnaire britannico-canadien. Il est le premier v\u00E9rificateur g\u00E9n\u00E9ral du Canada."@fr , "John Langton (April 7, 1808 \u2013 March 19, 1894) was Canada's first Auditor General. He was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England in 1808 and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He emigrated to Upper Canada in 1833 and settled near Peterborough. He worked for a time in the timber trade. In 1841, he was elected to the council for the Colborne District, becoming warden in 1848. In 1851, Langton was elected to the Legislative Council for Peterborough; he was reelected in 1854. In 1855, he was appointed the Auditor of the Province of Canada and was also appointed as a member of the newly formed Board of Audit; he resigned his seat in the assembly the following year. He served as Auditor for the remaining tenure of the Province of Canada and the first decade of the Dominion of Canada; it was Langton who led in the production of the first financial statements of the Dominion of Canada in spite of many challenges. He also served on the senate for the University of Toronto Langton moved with the government to Quebec City in 1859 and was president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. After Canadian Confederation in 1867, Langton was appointed the head of the federal Board of Audit. In 1870, he was named Deputy Minister of Finance and Secretary to the Treasury Board, while maintaining his role as Auditor General. The Auditor General's function was later to be separated from the finance department. He retired in 1878. From 1880 to 1882, he served as president of the Canadian Institute. He died in Toronto in 1894."@en . @prefix gold: . gold:hypernym dbr:Businessman ; schema:sameAs . @prefix prov: . prov:wasDerivedFrom ; dbo:wikiPageLength "4727"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ; dbo:birthYear "1808"^^xsd:gYear ; dbo:deathYear "1894"^^xsd:gYear ; dbo:occupation dbr:Auditor_General_of_Canada , ; foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf .