Lyman Duff Judge

Sir Lyman Poore Duff, GCMG, PC, QC (7 January 1865 - 26 April 1955) was the eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, was the longest serving justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and briefly served as Acting Governor General of Canada in 1931 and 1940.Born in Meaford, Canada West (now Ontario) to a Congregationalist minister, he received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and metaphysics in 1887 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1889 from the University of Toronto. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1893. In 1901, he was created a Queen's Counsel. From 1890 to 1895, he was a mathematics teacher at Barrie Collegiate Institute. He was a lawyer in Fergus, Ontario and moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1895 to practise law.

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Lyman Duff
Birth dateJanuary 07, 1865
Birth place
Ontario , Meaford Ontario
Date of deathApril 26, 1955
Place of death
Ontario , Ottawa
Education
University of Toronto

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