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{{Short description|Chief Justice of Canada from 1924 to 1933}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = Francis Alexander Anglin
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}}
| image            = Francis Anglin.jpg
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| order            = 7th
| office           = Chief Justice of Canada
| predecessor      = [[Louis Henry Davies]]
| successor        = [[Lyman Duff]]
| term_start       = September 16, 1924 
| term_end         = February 28, 1933
| nominator        = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King|W. L. Mackenzie King]]
| appointer        = 
| office2          = [[Puisne Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]]
| predecessor2     = [[James Maclennan]]
| successor2       = [[Edmund Leslie Newcombe]]
| term_start2      = February 23, 1909 
| term_end2        = September 16, 1924 
| nominator2       = [[Wilfrid Laurier]]
| appointer2        = 
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1865|04|02}}
| birth_place      = [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]], [[New Brunswick]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1933|03|02|1865|04|02}}
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| relations        = [[Timothy Anglin]], father<br>[[Margaret Anglin]], sister
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''' Francis Alexander Anglin''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (April 2, 1865 &ndash; March 2, 1933) was the seventh [[Chief Justice of Canada]] from 1924 until 1933.{{cn|date=September 2019}}

Born in [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], one of nine children of [[Timothy Anglin]], federal politician and [[Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada]], and elder brother to the renowned stage actress, [[Margaret Anglin]]. He was educated at [[Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal|St. Mary's College]], and received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the [[University of Ottawa]] in 1887. Anglin studied law at the [[Law Society of Upper Canada]] (which in those days taught law) and was called to the bar in 1888,<ref name=cem>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oZQuAAAAYAAJ&q=W.H.+Grattan+Flood&pg=PA10 "Anglin, Francis Alexander", ''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 4]{{PD-notice}}</ref> establishing a practice in [[Toronto]]. {{cn|date=September 2019}} In 1896 he became Clerk of the Surrogate Court of Ontario, and King's Counsel in 1902.{{cn|date=September 2019}}

He was appointed to the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice of Ontario in 1904 and, thanks to a nomination from the [[Laurier]] government, to the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] on February 23, 1909, becoming Chief Justice in 1924 thanks to a nomination by the first [[Mackenzie King]] government, and serving until his retirement, two days before his death, in 1933.<ref name="scs">{{cite web|url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/anglin/index-eng.asp|title=Judges of the Court - The Right Honourable Francis Alexander Anglin, P.C.|access-date=December 18, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929172900/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/anglin/index-eng.asp|archive-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref>

He was author of ''Trustees' Limitations and Other Relief'' (Toronto 1910) and penned the "Ontario" entry for the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''.<ref name=cem/>

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== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal |last1=Snell |first1=James G. |title=Frank Anglin Joins the Bench: A Study of Judicial Patronage, 1897–1904 |journal=Osgoode Hall Law Journal |date=1980 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=664–673 |doi=10.60082/2817-5069.2035 |id=[https://canlii.ca/t/7njng 1980 CanLIIDocs 353]|doi-access=free }}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140806000023/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=francis-alexander-anglin Supreme Court of Canada biography]

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