Thomas Wardlaw Taylor
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Sir Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (1833–1917) was a Canadian lawyer and judge, born in Auchtermuchty, Scotland. He studied at Edinburgh University, and was admitted to the Upper Canadian bar in 1858. From 1872 to 1883 he was Master of Chancery, and from 1883 to 1887 puisne judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench. In 1887-99 he was Chief Justice of Manitoba, and in 1890 and 1893 was administrator of the provincial government. He made an extensive study of equity jurisprudence, on which subject he published a volume of Commentaries (1875). He was the author of Chancery Statutes and Orders and The Public Statutes Relating to the Presbyterian Church, and more.
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- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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