Featherston Osler
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.
![Osler circa 1905](../I/Featherston_Osler_-_1905.jpg.webp)
Featherston Osler was born in Newmarket, Ontario, 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 Ontario 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
- Cushing, Harvey (1925). The life of Sir William Osler. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 13. OCLC 1041019908.
- "Featherston Osler Is Called by Death". The Globe. January 17, 1924. p. 9. ISSN 0839-3680. ProQuest 1366228963.
- 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.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- 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.
- "Hon F. Osler Died in Toronto". Victoria Daily Times. January 17, 1924. p. 5.