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  Cartwright, John S. (1804-1845)

  Engraved armorial. 10.6 x 6.7 cm. Gagnon I, 4796 who gives J. R. Cartwright; Harrod & Ayearst, p. 43, who assign his death date to 1860; Masson Collection Vol. III, #439.
  

  John Solomon Cartwright was born in Kingston, Upper Canada, the son of Richard Cartwright and Magdalen Secord (the sister of Laura Secord). He studied law in York, UC (now Toronto) in the law office of John Beverley Robinson (whose bookplate is shown above) and was called to the Bar in 1825. He went to London to pursue further legal studies at Lincoln’s Inn, but by the autumn of 1830 had returned to Kingston, where he resumed his law practice. His seriousness about his profession is shown by the large sum he was spending on legal books. In England he had probably laid out £250 for a “law library”. In 1834 he was appointed a judge of the Midland District Court; he was elected a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1835 and in 1838 he was made a QC. He became the first president of the Commercial Bank of Kingston in 1831. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in 1836 and to the Legislative Assembly of United Canada in 1841. He opposed the Union of 1840 and turned down the solicitor-generalship from Sir Charles Bagot in 1842. He died at Kingston. His great-grandson, John Robert Cartwright (1895-1979), a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1967-1970.

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  Corporal Cecil Johnstone Bovaird

  Corporal Cecil Johnstone Bovaird, 2nd Bde., Canadian Field Artillery, 24 years old, Class of 1915, Buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery. Son of William James (contractor) and Laura Ellnora Bovaird, of Mimico Beach, Ontario. Native of Prescott, Ontario. Graduated from high school in 1910. Admitted as a law student in 1911 at age 16. Called to the bar on 10 February 1916. Killed May 3 1917.

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  Crooks, Robt. Pilkington (1817-1866)

  Lithographed armorial mantling. 11.1 x 7.8 cm. Gagnon I, 4813; Harrod & Ayears, p. 49; Masson Collection Vol. III, #584.
  

  Robert P. Crooks, 1817-66, was a lawyer in Toronto in association with John Shuter Smith in the 1840s.

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  Fitzgerald, R.R. (1813-?)

  Armorial. 9.2 x 6.1 cm. Harrod & Ayearst, p. 62.
  

  Rowan Roberts Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1847, and arrived in Canada the year of his birth. He settled in Charlottetown, and was a judge in the Prince Edward Island courts. He became Queen's Council on October 11th, 1880.

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  Foster, George Green, K.C. (1860-1931)

  Armorial. 9.5 x 6.3 cm. Harrod & Ayearst, p. 63; Masson Coll. Vol. V, #816.
  

  George Foster, a Canadian senator, was born in Knowlton, educated at McGill, and called to the bar in 1881, and to the Senate in 1917. He was a medal collector, whose collection was sold to Eddy Mack, Montreal antique dealer and collector in the 1950s and 60s.

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  George Clemens Ellis

  Private George Clemens Ellis wears his uniform in his Class of 1916 graduation photo. Newly married, Private Ellis would be dead months later from wounds sustained during the third battle of Ypres while he was serving with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He was 26.

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  George Johnston

  Classmates George Johnston and Frank Boles served their country. George was gassed and blinded at Hill 70 and Frank never left France alive.

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  Hagarty, J.H. (1816-1900)

  Armorial. 7.3 x 6 cm. Gagnon II, 2729; Harrod & Ayearst, p. 69; Masson Collection Vol. VI, #940.
  

  Sir John Hawkins Hagarty was born in Ireland and came to Canada in 1835. He was called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1840 and in 1856 was appointed a puisne judge of the court of common pleas, the beginning of a long career as a judge in Upper Canada. In 1884 he was made chief justice of Ontario. He retired in 1897 and was knighted the same year. (Wallace).