The Supreme Court of Canada. style, his judgments being most frequently in that language. Not only is he an able jurist but he is also an author of high repute, having published several important works, among others a valuable annotated edition
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Pleas of the Province of Ontario, and had there acquired the very highest judicial rep utation. The descendant of an old Irish family, born at Castle Knock in the County of Dublin in the year 1814, educated at
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THE HON. JOHN WELLINGTON GWYNNE. of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Prov ince of Quebec, and also a very useful book on the Criminal Law of Canada. The Hon. Mr. Justice Gwynne was ap pointed to the Supreme Court upon the resignation of Sir William Richards in Jan uary, 1879. For over ten years he had been one of the judges of the Court of Common 33
Trinity College, Dublin, in early life he came to Upper Canada, and studied law in the office of the late Thomas Kirkpatrick of Kingston, in his day one of the most prominent lawyers of the Province. Possessed of the highest culture, a vigorous and well-stored mind, and the eloquence and wit for which his countrymen have ever been celebrated, Mr.
