Lyman Duff

Sir Lyman Poore Duff, PC, GCMG, QC ( born January 7, 1865 in Meaford, Ontario, † April 26, 1955 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian judge. He was a member from 1906 to 1944 the Supreme Court of Canada, and was its chairman from 1933 ( Chief Justice ).

Biography

The son of a priest of the Congregationalists initially studied mathematics and metaphysics at the University of Toronto, then also right. He worked part-time as a math teacher in Barrie to pay for college. In 1893 he was admitted as a lawyer, and two years later he moved to Victoria in British Columbia, where he worked for the law firm Bodwell & Irving. In 1903 he was sent as a consultant to London at the negotiation of a definitive boundary between Alaska and Canada.

In 1904, Duff was a member of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, on September 27, 1906 Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier appointed him to the Supreme Court of Canada. On the recommendation of Richard Bedford Bennett, he became Chief Justice on 17 March 1933. Since more than four months elapsed after the death of Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir in February 1940 until the appointment of a successor, Duff took over during this time also the office of Acting Governor-General and thus represented the head of state.

After more than 37 years as chief justice (of which almost eleven as chairman ) joined Duff back on January 7, 1944.

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