About Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy
Lived 1852 – 1919 (aged 66). Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy was a Canadian and British legal scholar, barrister and lawyer.
Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy (21 June 18527 March 1919) was a Canadian legal scholar.
Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy was born on 21 June 1852 in Toronto, then in Canada West. He attended Rugby School and New College, Oxford, receiving an honours BA in 1875 and a MA in 1880.
Lefroy was called to the bars of England and Ontario in 1877 and 1878, respectively. Lefroy was a legal positivist who endorsed the views of John Austin.
He died on 7 March 1919 in Ottawa.
Books The Law of Legislative Power in Canada (1897/1898) Canada's Federal System (1913) Leading Cases in Canadian Constitutional Law (1914) A Short Treatise on Canadian Constitutional Law (1918)
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Canadian legal scholar (1852–1919)
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Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy was born on 21 June 1852 in Toronto.
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