Fonds PF64 - Aemilius Irving fonds

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Aemilius Irving fonds

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    CA ON00311 PF64

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    • [1883?]-[after 1913] (Creation)

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    1.5 cm of textual records
    6 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 11 cm or smaller
    6 handkerchiefs
    1 print : engraving, b&w ; 23 x 15 cm
    1 box

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    Aemilius Irving was born in Leamington, England, on 24 March 1823 to Jacob Aemilius Irving and Catherine Diana Homfray. The family lived in France before immigrating to Upper Canada in 1834. They settled in Lundy's Lane and later moved to Newmarket. He married August Louisa Gugyon on 3 June 1851 and had eight children. Irving attended Upper Canada College in Toronto. He was admitted to law school in 1844 and was called to the Bar in 1849. He articled with Joseph Clarke Gamble in Toronto. He moved to Galt in 1851, serving as Clerk of the Peace for Waterloo County. He later served as legal counsel for the Great Western Railway and for the Government of Ontario during the Settlement of Accounts Arbitration. Irving was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1863. He served as a bencher (1874-1893) and Treasurer (1893-1913) of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Irving was a Member of Parliament for Hamilton, elected in the general election of 1874 and again in a by-election in 1875. He died on 27 November 1913.

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    Fonds consists of photographs, letters, ephemera, a letters patent of knighthood and artifacts relating to the life of Sir Aemilius Irving. Included are an illuminated address and a wooden box presented to Irving by the benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. An engraving of William Osgoode is also included.

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    The majority of the records in this fonds were donated to the Law Society of Upper Canada Archives by Nancy-Helen Clifford, the widow of the great-grandson of Sir Aemilius Irving, in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Two letters were donated by the National Air Force Museum in 2014. The Museum had come across the letters in a file of material belonging to Irving.

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