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  Cameron, John Hillyard (1817-1876)

  Armorial supporters. 9.6 x 7.5 cm. Gagnon I, 4789; Harrod & Ayearst, p. 39; Masson Collection Vol. III, #420.
  

  John Hillyard Cameron was born in France and came to Canada in 1825. He studied at Upper Canada College and was called to the bar in 1838. From 1843-46 he was reporter to the court of Queen’s Bench, Upper Canada and began the publication of the Upper Canada Law Reports. He was solicitor general of the province from 1846-48. In 1859 he became grand master of the Orange Order of Ontario and in 1873 he was chairman of the committee to inquire into the Pacific Scandal. He fell under suspicion himself when it was discovered that he had an outstanding “loan” of five thousand dollars from Sir Hugh Allan. (Wallace).

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  Canadian Victory Bonds

  The Benchers voted to return the admission fees of all students killed in action to their families. In total, the Law Society of Upper Canada invested $70,000 in Canadian Victory Bonds.

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  Captain George Graham Sinclair

  Captain George Graham Sinclair, Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C., 35 years old, Class of 1933, Buried at the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-Sur-Mer, France. Son of Lorne M. and Evelyn M. Sinclair, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Dorothy Flavelle Sinclair, of Toronto. Captain Sinclair received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, and graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1933. He was killed in the Dieppe Raid on August 14, 1942. His classmates established the George Graham Sinclair Memorial Prize in his memory, which is awarded annually to the Osgoode Gold Medalist.

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  Captain Walter Leslie Lockhart Gordon

  Captain Walter Leslie Lockhart Gordon, 2nd Bn., Canadian Infantry, 24 years old, Class of 1914, Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Son of W. H. Lockhart Gordon (barrister) and Emily Gordon Gordon, of 221, George St., Toronto. Graduated Royal Military College in 1911. Admitted as a law student in 1911 at age 20. Called to the bar 18 September 1914. Killed in action at Ypres 23 April 1915.

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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.