- John Hawkins Hagarty
Infobox Judge
name = Sir John Hawkins Hagarty
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office =Chief Justice of Ontario
termstart = 1884
termend = 1897
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birthdate =17 September 1816
birthplace =Dublin ,Ireland
deathdate = death date and age|1900|4|27|1816|9|17
deathplace =Toronto, Ontario
spouse =Sir John Hawkins Hagarty (
17 September 1816 -27 April 1900 ) was a Canadian lawyer, teacher, and judge.Born in
Dublin ,Ireland , Hagarty was educated atTrinity College, Dublin for a year before emigrating toUpper Canada in 1834. He was a student-at-law in the law office ofGeorge Duggan in Toronto. He was called to the Bar in 1840 and was a partner withJohn Willoughby Crawford . As well from 1852 to 1855, he taught at Trinity College. In 1856, he was appointed a judge. He was a judge for 41 years including:Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1856–62), judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench (1862–68), Chief Justice of Common Pleas (1868–78), Chief Justice of Queen’s Bench (1878–84), and President of the Court of Appeal andChief Justice of Ontario (1884–97). He was knighted when he retired in 1897.References
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