William Badgley (27 March 1801 – 24 December 1888) was a Canadian born in

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, educated there, and admitted to the Lower Canadian bar in 1823. He became a judge and attorney general for

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. He was also the founder of a law firm now known as the Montreal office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. From 1855 to 1857 he was professor of law at

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and was the first dean of the

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. He was the son of Francis Badgley (1767–1841), a merchant with family business connections to the London

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. He was a brother to

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and Elizabeth, wife of

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