BORDEN, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM Canadian statesman, was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, on May 14, 1847, and died at Toronto on Jan. 6, 1917. He was educated at King's college, Windsor, and at Harvard University, and for some years practised medicine at Canning, Nova Scotia. In 1874 he was elected to the Canadian parliament as Liberal member for King's county. In 1896 he became minister of militia and defence in the Liberal ministry.