Henry John Cody

Henry John Cody (December 6, 1868 – April 27, 1951) was a Canadian clergyman and President of the University of Toronto from 1932 to 1945 and Chancellor from 1944 to 1947.

Born in Embro, Ontario, the eldest son of Elijah Cody and Margaret Louisa Torrance, he attended Gait Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. He was ordained a Church of England priest in 1894 and later served in Toronto at St. Paul's, Bloor Street. He was an Ontario MPP for Toronto Northeast — Seat A from 1918 to 1920 and was Minister of Education from 1918 to 1919.

Cody's son, Maurice, has a K-6 school named after him in Toronto. At the University of Toronto Schools, the Cody house in the intramural house system is named in his honour.

References

* [http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001735 Henry John Cody] at The Canadian Encyclopedia
* [http://www.archive.org/details/zorraboysathomea00mackuoft Zorra boys at home and abroad; or How to succeed]
* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1009 Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]