- Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, PC, GCMG, KC, BCL, DCL, LLD, DLitt, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 - February 17, 1919) was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from July 11, 1896, to October 5, 1911. Canada's first francophone prime minister, Laurier is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen. He is well known for his policies of conciliation, nation building, and compromise between French and English Canada. - Clifford Chadderton
Hugh Clifford "Cliff" Chadderton, C.C., O. Ont., DCL, LL.D (born May 9, 1919) is a Canadian World War II veteran, known as “Mr. Veteran” to thousands of veterans across Canada, and Chief Executive Officer of The War Amps. Born in Fort William, Ontario, he worked as a news editor for Canadian Press and a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press and he attended the University of Manitoba. Chadderton played for the Winnipeg Rangers hockey team, … - John A. MacDonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald's tenure in office spanned 19 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments and won praise for having helped forge a nation of sprawling geographic size, with two diverse European colonial origins, … - John Abbott
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC, BCL, DCL (March 12, 1821-October 30, 1893) was the third Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the office for seventeen months, from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892. He was also the great-grandfather of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. - John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker, CH, PC, QC, BA, MA, LL.B, LL.D, DCL, FRSC, FRSA, D.Litt, DSL, (18 September 1895 - 16 August 1979) was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada (1957 - 1963). Diefenbaker was known by several nicknames during his career, "J.G.D." and "The Leader" (a moniker that continued to be applied to him even after his leaving the post of prime minister), but most affectionately as "Dief the Chief" or simply "the Chief". - Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5 1853 - March 26 1902) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today controls 60% of the world's diamonds and at one time controlled 90% of the world's diamonds. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the coloniser of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas (Broun) Smith, QC, FBA, FRSE (3 December 1915 - 15 October 1988) was a lawyer, soldier and academic. Smith was the son of John Smith, DL, JP, and Agnes Smith. He married in 1940, Ann Dorothea Tindall. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, (MA 1937, Boulter exhibitioner, Eldon Scholar). He was called to the English Bar in 1938 and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland in 1947. - Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC, DCL, LL.D, MD (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a father of Confederation, the sixth Prime Minister of Canada and the one with the shortest term of office (69 days). Tupper was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia to Charles Tupper (Sr.) and Miriam Lowe Lockhart. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and became a doctor upon his graduation in 1843. - Robert Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC, DCL, LL.D (June 26, 1854 - June 10, 1937) was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920, and the third Nova Scotian to hold this office. - Jim Peterson
James Scott "Jim" Peterson, PC, BA, LL.B LL.M DCL (born July 30, 1941) is a retired Canadian politician and former Minister of International Trade. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he has a DCL from McGill University, a Master of Laws from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario. As well he has diplomas from l'Academie de Droit International in The Hague and La Sorbonne in Paris. - John Buchanan
John MacLennan Buchanan, PC, QC, D.Eng, DCL, LL.D, D.P.Sc. (born April 22, 1931) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. Buchanan graduated from Mount Allison University in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science Degree and an Engineering Certificate. He then went on to study at Dalhousie Law School and after graduating in 1958 entered the practise of law where he was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1972. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1967. - Philip Williams
Philip Williams (1780, Winchester-1843) was an English lawyer and academic in the University of Oxford. He was the son of the Rev. Philip Williams of Winchester. On 24 April 1798 he matriculated at New College, Oxford, of which he was also a Fellow until 1818. He was awarded his BCL in 1805 and his DCL in 1825. In 1824 he was appointed Vinerian Professor of English Law, which he remained until his death in 1843. - Walter Harris
Walter Edward Harris, PC, QC, DCL (January 14 1904 - January 10 1999) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Harris was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ontario riding of Grey-Bruce in the 1940 election. Despite being a newly elected MP, he enlisted in the military and served for four years, seeing action in France during World War II. He served as parliamentary secretary to Louis St. - Guenter Treitel
Professor Sir Guenter Heinz Treitel, is a German-born English DCL, FBA, QC, who retired as Vinerian Professor of English Law in 1997, and has been awarded a knighthood for services to law. Professor Treitel has been a Fellow of All Souls College since 1979; he was previously a Fellow of Magdalen College from 1954 to 1979. Treitel is the son of a leading Berlin lawyer and came to England on the kindertransport. - George Ignatieff
George Ignatieff, CC, MA, DCL (December 16 1913 - August 10 1989) was a Canadian diplomat and was the recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in international service. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the youngest of five sons, to a distinguished Russian family. His mother was Princess Natasha Mestchersky and his father was Count Paul Ignatieff, a close advisor to Tsar Nicholas II serving as his last Minister of Education. - William Fenwick Williams
Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet GCB (4 December, 1800 - 26 July, 1883) was a British military leader of the Victorian era. - Henry Hicks
Henry Davies Hicks, CC, QC, BA, B.Sc, BCL, MA, D.Ed, DCL, LL.D, D.Litt (March 5, 1915 - December 9, 1990) was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia. He was elected to the provincial legislature in 1945 as a Liberal and served as minister of education from 1949 to 1954 in the government of Angus L. MacDonald. When MacDonald died, Hicks ran for the Liberal party leadership against interim leader and Premier Harold Connolly. - Allan Blakeney
Allan Emrys Blakeney, PC, OC, SOM, QC, MA, DCL, FRSC (born September 7, 1925) was the Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982, and leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP). Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club. - Sheila Cameron
The Right Honourable and Right Worshipful Sheila Cameron, MA DCL Lambeth CBE QC (born 22 March 1934), is a British legal professional. She has been Dean of the Arches and Official Principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury since 2000, and is therefore the senior ecclesiastical judge of the Church of England. Since 1983 she has been Vicar-General of Canterbury and since 1985 she has been a Recorder. - Hartland Molson
Hartland de Montarville Molson, OBE, OC, DCL, FCA (May 29, 1907 - September 28, 2002) was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian Senator and a member of the prominent Molson family of brewers. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a wealthy brewing family, Hartland Molson was educated at Selwyn House School in Montréal and at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec before attending the Royal Military College of Canada at Kingston, … - William Searle Holdsworth
Sir William Searle Holdsworth, OM, KC, DCL, HON LL.D, FBA, (born May 7, 1871; died January 2, 1944) was a legal historian and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University amongst who works is the 12 volume History of English Law. - Eugene Forsey
Eugene Alfred Forsey, PC, CC, BA, MA, Ph.D, LLD, DLitt, DCL, FRSC (May 29, 1904 - February 20, 1991) served in the Canadian Senate from 1970 to 1979. He was considered to be one of Canada's foremost constitutional experts. __TOC_ - John Tovey 1st Baron Tovey
Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, GCB, KBE, DSO, DCL (March 7, 1885-January 12, 1971) was a British Royal Navy admiral. Tovey entered the Royal Navy at age 14. At the start of the First World War, Tovey served on the cruiser "Amphion" and later commanded the destroyer HMS "Onslow" during the battle of Jutland for which he was awarded the D.S.O. During the interbellum, … - Alexander Morris
Alexander Morris, PC (March 17, 1826 - October 28, 1889) was a Canadian politician. He served in the cabinet of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald (1869-1872), and was the second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1872-1877). He also served as the first Lieutenant Governor of the District of Keewatin. Morris was born in Perth, Upper Canada (now Ontario), the son of William Morris, himself a prominent Canadian businessman and Conservative politician. - David Daube
David Daube DCL, FBA (8 February 1909, Freiburg, Germany-24 February 1999) was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and later Professor-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley. - Ivy Williams
Dr. Ivy Williams (7 September 1877 - 18 February 1966), was the first woman to be called to the English bar. She was born in Newton Abbot and educated privately. By 1903 she had completed all her law examinations, but was prevented by the prevailing regulations concerning the qualification of women at Oxford from matriculating or receiving her BA, MA and BCL until the regulations were reformed in 1920. In 1921 she was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, … - Muriel McQueen Fergusson
Muriel McQueen Fergusson, PC, OC, QC, BA, DCL, LL.D (May 26, 1899 - April 11, 1997) was a Canadian Senator and the first woman Speaker of the Senate. Born in Shediac, New Brunswick, she graduated from Mount Allison University in 1921 with a B.A. and studied law at Dalhousie University. She was the first woman elected, in 1950, to the Fredericton City Council and was the first woman deputy mayor in 1953. - George Spencer-Churchill 6th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough DCL (December 27 1793 - July 1 1857) was the son of George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Susan Stewart. He was born at Bill Hill, an estate in Hurst in Berkshire which his father was renting at the time. He was educated between 1805 and 1811 at Eton College and later at Christ Church, Oxford. He was also given an honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws from Oxford University on 15 June 1841. - George Spencer-Churchill 5th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough DCL MA FSA (March 6 1766-March 5 1840) was the son of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough. For most of his life he was known by his father's secondary title of Marquess of Blandford. He was educated between 1776 and 1783 at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford between 1784 and 1786, … - Samuel Haughton
Samuel Haughton (December 21, 1821 - October 31, 1897), Irish scientific writer, the son of James Haughton (1795-1873), was born at Carlow. His father, the son of a Quaker, but himself a Unitarian, was an active philanthropist, a strong supporter of Father Theobald Mathew, a vegetarian, and an anti-slavery worker and writer. After a distinguished career in Trinity College, Dublin, Samuel was elected a fellow in 1844. He was ordained priest in 1847, but seldom preached. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper (July 17, 1810 in London - November 1889 in Albury, Surrey) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of "Proverbial Philosophy". He was the eldest son of Dr. Martin Tupper, a medical man highly esteemed in his day who came from an old Hugenot family of ancient and honourable standing. Martin Tupper received his early education at the Charterhouse. In due course of time he was transferred to Christ Church, … - Dufferin Roblin
Dufferin Roblin, PC, CC, OM, LL.D, DCL (born June 17, 1917) is a Canadian businessman and politician. Known as "Duff," he served as Premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967, He was appointed to the Canadian Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. He served as Senate Leader in the government of Brian Mulroney. He is the grandson of Sir Rodmond P. Roblin, who also served as Manitoba Premier. - Norman Atkins
Norman "Norm" Kempton Atkins, BA, DCL (born June 27 1934 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States) is a Canadian Senator and political figure. He is a graduate of Appleby College in Oakville and of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where he completed the Bachelor of Arts program in 1957. Senator Atkins subsequently received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law in 2000, from Acadia University. - Cyril Wyche
Sir Cyril Wyche, FRS, DCL, MA, BA (1632 - ?1707) was an English lawyer and politician. He was born in Constantinople, Turkey, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford with Bachelor of Arts in 1653. He received his Master of Arts (MA) in 1655 and his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in 1665. Between the time he received his MA and his DCL, he was knighted (1660). - William Mansfield 1st Baron Sandhurst
William Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst, GCB, GCSI, DCL (21 June, 1819-23 June, 1876), was a British military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of India from 1865 to 1870. Mansfield was the fifth of the seven sons of John Mansfield of Diggeswell House in Hertfordshire, and his wife, daughter of General Samuel Smith of Baltimore in the United States. His grandfather was the prominent lawyer Sir James Mansfield, … - Francis Spencer 1st Baron Churchill
Francis Almeric Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill DCL FRS (26 December 1779 - 10 March 1845) was a British peer and Whig politician. Born Lord Francis Almeric Spencer, he was the second son of the 4th Duke of Marlborough. On 25 November 1800, he married Lady Frances FitzRoy, a younger daughter of the 3rd Duke of Grafton. From 1801-15, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxfordshire and on his retirement from the Commons, … - Alan Abraham
Alan Rockwell Abraham, CM, ONS, CD, DCL, D.Eng (born February 1, 1931) is a former Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He was involved in federal politics and helped with the organization of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's tours of the Maritimes. In 1983, Governor General Edward Schreyer, on the advice of Prime Minister Trudeau, appointed him Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. In 1996, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. - Llewelyn Lewellin
Llewelyn Lewellin, (1798-1878), cleric and university educator, born August 3, 1798, the third son of Richard and Maria Lewellin, near Bridgend, Glamorgan. Lewellin was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in 1822, an MA in 1824, a BCL in 1827 and a DCL in 1829. Whilst studying at Oxford, he was ordained deacon in 1822 and priest in 1823 by the bishop of Oxford. With such an astonishing academic record, Lewellin was, in 1826, … - Geoffrey Cheshire
Professor Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, DCL, LLD, FBA (27 June 1886-27 October 1978) was an English barrister, scholar and influential writer on law. He is also known as the father of Leonard Cheshire, VC, the English war hero and founder of the Cheshire Homes charity. - William Talbot 1st Earl Talbot
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot (16 May 1710 - 27 April 1782), known as the Lord Talbot from 1737 to 1761, was an British politician. Talbot was born at Worcester, the son of Charles Talbot, later Baron Talbot. He was educated at Eton from 1725 to 1728 and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 23 January 1727. He was created DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) on 12 June 1736. He was Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire from 1734 to 1737, …
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