Terry Grier
{{Short description|Canadian politician (1936–2023)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Terry Grier
| image =
| riding = Toronto-Lakeshore
| term_start = 1972
| term_end = 1974
| predecessor = Ken Robinson
| successor = Ken Robinson
| parliament = Canadian
| order2 = 6th
| office2 = President and Vice-Chancellor of Ryerson Polytechnic University
| term_start2 = 1988
| term_end2 = 1995{{efn|Ryerson Polytechnical Institute was granted university status in 1994, during Grier's term as President}}
| predecessor2 = Brian Segal
| successor2 = Claude Lajeunesse
| party = New Democratic Party
| party colour =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|08|12}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|03|13|1936|08|12}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| profession = University administrator
| residence = Toronto, Ontario
| spouse = Ruth Grier
| religion =
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Terence Wyly Monro Grier (August 12, 1936 – March 13, 2023) was a Canadian politician, lecturer and university administrator.
Education and political career
Grier graduated from the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1958. He served as the New Democratic Party's Member of Parliament for Toronto—Lakeshore from 1972 to 1974.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
Academic career
Following his defeat in the 1974 federal election he returned to Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto where he was an instructor in the politics department. After terms as Dean of Arts and Vice-President Academic, he was appointed Ryerson's president in 1988 and oversaw the institution's transformation into a university by the end of his term in 1995.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
Personal life and death
His wife, Ruth Grier, was a politician in her own right serving on Etobicoke's city council and in the Ontario legislature as a New Democratic Party MPP and cabinet minister.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
Grier died on March 13, 2023, at the age of 86.{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/thestar/name/terry-grier-obituary?id=50941554 |title=Terry Grier |publisher=Legacy.com |access-date=March 18, 2023}}
Electoral record
{{1974 Canadian federal election/Toronto—Lakeshore}}
{{1972 Canadian federal election/Toronto—Lakeshore}}
{{1968 Canadian federal election/Lakeshore}}
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=14464}}
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|title = President of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute/Ryerson Polytechnic University
|years = 1988–1995
|before = Brian Segal
|after = Claude Lajeunesse }}
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Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Category:Canadian political scientists
Category:New Democratic Party MPs
Category:Presidents of Toronto Metropolitan University
Category:Trinity College (Canada) alumni
Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:Upper Canada College alumni
Category:Canadian university and college chief executives
Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
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