Featherston Osler

Osler circa 1905
Osler circa 1905

Featherston Osler KC (January 4, 1838 – January 16, 1924) was a Canadian judge. He sat on Ontario's Court of Common Pleas from 1879 to 1883 and on the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1883 to his retirement in March 1910.

Featherston Osler was born in Newmarket, Upper Canada, on January 4, 1838, to Ellen Tree (Picton) Osler and Featherstone Lake Osler, an Anglican cleric.[1][2] He attended grammar schools in Barrie and Bond Head and Trinity College, Toronto.[2][3] William Osler, Britton Bath Osler, and Edmund Boyd Osler were his siblings.[4]

Osler was called to the bar of the Province of Canada in 1860, was created a King's Counsel in 1879, and practised in Toronto before his appointment to the Court of Common Pleas on March 5, 1879.[4][3][2] Osler was elevated to the Court of Appeal on November 17, 1883.[3] He was offered a position on the Supreme Court of Canada, but declined in October 1888.[4][3] Osler retired from the bench in March 1910.[2] He became treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1921 and served until his death.[4]

Osler died in Toronto on January 16, 1924.[5]

References

  1. ^ Cushing, Harvey (1925). The life of Sir William Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 13. OCLC 1041019908.
  2. ^ a b c d "Featherston Osler Is Called by Death". The Globe. January 17, 1924. p. 9. ISSN 0839-3680. ProQuest 1366228963.
  3. ^ a b c d Morgan, Henry James (1898). The Canadian Men and Women of the Time. Toronto: William Briggs. p. 788. ISBN 978-0-665-02221-0. OCLC 1056336255. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ a b c d Moore, Christopher (2014). The Court of Appeal for Ontario: Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792–2013. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 265. doi:10.3138/9781442622470. ISBN 978-1-4426-2247-0. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1287q35.
  5. ^ "Hon F. Osler Died in Toronto". Victoria Daily Times. January 17, 1924. p. 5.
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