The New Student's Reference Work/Armour, Hon. John Douglas

Armour, Hon. John Douglas, born county of Peterborough (Ontario), 1830, son of the Reverend Samuel Armour. Educated at Upper Canada College and Toronto University. Studied law with Chancellor Vankoughnet and was called to the bar in 1853. His progress at the bar was rapid. Appointed judge (Court of Queen's Bench), 1877. Made president of the court in 1887. Declined knighthood. One of the ablest of Canadian judges. Appointed one of his Majesty's Commissioners in the Alaska Boundary case. He died in 1903, in England, when on a public mission.