Francis Alexander Anglin PC (April 2, 1865 – March 2, 1933) was the seventh Chief Justice of Canada from 1924 until 1933. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, one of nine children of Timothy Anglin, federal politician and

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, and elder brother to the renowned stage actress, Margaret Anglin. He was educated at

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, and received a

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degree from the University of Ottawa in 1887. Anglin studied law at the Law Society of Upper Canada (which in those days taught law) and was called to the bar in 1888,"Anglin, Francis Alexander", ''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 4
/ref> establishing a practice in Toronto. In 1896 he became Clerk of the Surrogate Court of Ontario, and King's Counsel in 1902. He was appointed to the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice of Ontario in 1904 and, thanks to a nomination from the

Laurier Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minist ...

government, to the

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on February 23, 1909, becoming Chief Justice in 1924 thanks to a nomination by the first

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government, and serving until his retirement, two days before his death, in 1933. He was author of ''Trustees' Limitations and Other Relief'' (Toronto 1910) and penned the "Ontario" entry for the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''.

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