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who objected to Monk's opposition between policy and legality. Haldimand resurrected the dormant post of
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where his father had settled in 1749. He studied law with his father from 1761 to 1767 and was admitted to the bar in 1768. After his father died leaving the family in debt, Monk took over the family's finances. In 1771, he studied law in
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