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About Robert Garnett Tatlow
- Robert Garnett Tatlow (September 6, 1855 – April 11, 1910) was an Irish-born businessman and political figure in British Columbia.
- He represented Vancouver City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1909 as a Conservative. He was born in Scarva, the son of John Garnett Tatlow and Anne Matthews, and was educated in Cheltenham.
- After completing his schooling, Tatlow came to Montreal where he was hired by the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company and later a brokerage office.
- He joined the militia and came to Victoria in 1879 to inspect the coastal defences there.
- Tatlow remained there as instructor to the local militia and custodian for artillery supplies.
- The following year, he was hired as private secretary to the lieutenant governor, Albert Norton Richards.
- He continued in the same function for Richards' successor, Clement Francis Cornwall.
- Tatlow resigned that post in 1886 and moved to Vancouver where he was a real estate, insurance and mining broker.
- He was a member of the city's park committee from 1888 to 1905 and served as chairman from 1895 to 1903.
- In 1893, he married Elizabeth Mary Cambie.
- Tatlow ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1890 and 1894 before being elected in 1900.
- He introduced a private member's bill requiring all immigrants to be able to write in a European language.
- Tatlow served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Finance and Agriculture and as Commissioner of Lands and Works.
- He also served as deputy premier.
- He resigned his seat in October 1909 after Richard McBride proposed guarantees to help finance the construction of the Canadian Northern Railway.
- Tatlow died in Victoria at the age of 54 after being ejected from his carriage.Mount Tatlow was named in his honour.
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