William L. Walsh

William L. Walsh

William Legh Walsh (January 28 1857 – January 13 1938) was a Canadian lawyer and judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1931 to 1936.

He was born in Simcoe, Ontario, the son of Aquila Walsh, a member of the Canadian House of Commons. He studied law at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, was called to the bar in 1880 and practiced law in Orangeville. In 1900, he went to the Yukon and practiced law in Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1903, he was named King's Counsel.

He moved to Calgary in 1904 and joined a law firm there. He became the first President of the Conservative Association of Alberta in 1905. In 1912, he was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta and served until he became lieutenant governor in 1931.

He died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1938, aged 80.

William Walsh had two children, a son and a daughter. His son Legh Aquila Walsh was born in 1895. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One and served the duration of the war. At the time of his enlistment he described his occupation as law student. He became a Lieutenant in the 82nd Battalion in May 1916. He was wounded at Courcelette in 1916, returned briefly to Calgary, and then sailed back to the front. After the war he returned to Calgary in April 1919. [Calgary Herald: April 23, 1919, pg. 9; May 10, 1919, pg. 17]

His daughter Marguerite (also known as Greta) married Dr. George Robinson Pirie (1879-1938), a prominent children's doctor and member of the Royal College of Physicians (1931). They were married in Calgary on April 14th, 1909. [Archibald Oswald MacRae, History of the Province of Alberta, Vol. II, The Western Canada History Co., 1912, pgs. 937-8] He was Superintendent of the Great Ormond Street children's hospital in England from 1914-1919. They had one child, Miss Margaret Walsh Pirie (Mrs. R. O. Funston).

References

External links

* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/lt-gov/walsh.htm Biography at the Legislative Assembly of Alberta web site]
* [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/cef/001042-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=296073&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=uavf0bbbdqdk57em69d56793u6 Military Attestation for Lt. Legh Aquila Walsh at the National Archives of Canada]
* [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=80823 Canadian Great War Project - biography for L. A. Walsh]


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