Editing Family Compact (section)

===Membership===
The centre of the compact was [[York, Upper Canada|York]] (later renamed [[Old Toronto|Toronto]]), the capital. Its most important member was Bishop [[John Strachan]]; many of the other members were his former students, or people who were related to him. The most prominent of Strachan's pupils was [[Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto|Sir John Beverley Robinson]] who was from 1829 the Chief Justice of [[Upper Canada]] for 34 years. The rest of the members were mostly descendants of [[United Empire Loyalists]] or recent upper-class British settlers such as the Boulton family, builders of the [[The Grange (Toronto)|Grange]].

A triumvirate of lawyers, [[Levius Peters Sherwood|Levius Sherwood]] (speaker of the Legislative Council, judge in the Court of King's Bench), Judge [[Jonas Jones]], and Attorney General [[Henry John Boulton]] were linked by professional and business ties, and by marriage; both Sherwood and Boulton being married to Jones’ sisters. Collectively, their extended family (if we include the Robinsons, and James B. Macaulay, Boulton's former clerk) comprise three quarters of the "Family Compact" listed by Mackenzie in 1833.

{{Members of the Family Compact}}

{{Gallery
| title  = Elite Members
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|File:Sir_John_Beverley_Robinson.jpg|alt1=Sir John Beverley Robinson|John Robinson. Acknowledged leader of the Family Compact. Member of the Legislative Assembly and later the Legislative Council.
|File:Johnstrachan1865.jpg|alt2=Bishop John Strachan|Bishop Strachan. Acknowledged Anglican leader in the Family Compact.
|File:William Osgoode.png|alt3=William Osgoode|William Osgoode. 1st Chief Justice of Upper Canada notable for allowing non-Anglican priests to solemnize marriages.
|File:Jonas Jones.png|alt4=Jonas Jones|Jonas Jones, lawyer, banker
|Image:Neas Shaw.jpg|alt5=Æneas Shaw|Æneas Shaw. Early member of the compact. Appointed to the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Upper Canada in 1794.
|File:James FitzGibbon - Project Gutenberg eText 18025.png|alt6=James FitzGibbon|Col. James FitzGibbon, militia commander
|File:William Henry Boulton.png|alt7=William Henry Boulton|William Henry Boulton 8th Mayor of Toronto and member of the Legislative Assembly
|File:ANMacNab.jpg|alt8=ANMacNab|Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
|File:Henry Sherwood.png|alt9=Henry Sherwood|Henry Sherwood, 13th Parliament of Upper Canada representing Brockville
|File:James Buchanan Macaulay (black and white, portrait).jpg|Sir James Buchanan Macaulay, [[Order of the Bath|CB]]
}}