Patriarche partisan et profondément conservateur venant d'une grande famille talentueuse de la Nouvelle-Écosse engagée politiquement, il a eu la bonne idée, dois-je le préciser, d'épouser une libérale - Mary Eileen Boyd, femme splendide et accomplie. Dick est toujours demeuré un patriote ardent et convaincant face à sa ville, sa province, son pays, son église et son magnifique héritage irlandais.
A deeply conservative, partisan patriarch of a large, talented and politically committed Nova Scotia family — with the good sense to marry a Liberal, I might add, the beautiful and accomplished Mary Eileen Boyd — Dick remained always the fiery and convincing patriot to his city, to his province, to his country, to his church and to his wonderful Irish inheritance.