Francis Alexander Anglin

{{Short description|Chief Justice of Canada from 1924 to 1933}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = Francis Alexander Anglin

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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 = W. L. Mackenzie King

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| 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

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1865|04|02}}

| birth_place = Saint John, New Brunswick

| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|03|02|1865|04|02}}

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Margaret Anglin, sister

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Francis Alexander Anglin {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (April 2, 1865 – 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 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,[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}} 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.{{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}}

He was author of Trustees' Limitations and Other Relief (Toronto 1910) and penned the "Ontario" entry for the Catholic Encyclopedia.