About Terry Grier
Lived 1936 – 2023 (aged 86–87). Terry Grier was a Canadian politician, political scientist, university teacher, economist, lecturer and academic administrator.
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.
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.
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.
Grier died on March 13, 2023, at the age of 86.
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Canadian politician
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Terry Grier was born on 12 August 1936 in Toronto.
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Terry Grier died in 2023.
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Terry Grier was a politician, political scientist, university teacher, economist, lecturer and academic administrator.
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Terry Grier was Canadian.
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