Roy Kellock Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Roy Kellock
Office:Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Predecessor:Thibaudeau Rinfret
Successor:Ronald Martland
Term Start:October 3, 1944
Term End:January 15, 1958
Nominator:William Lyon Mackenzie King
Birth Date:12 November 1893
Birth Place:Perth, Ontario
Birth Name:Roy Lindsay Kellock
Honorific Suffix:CC

Roy Lindsay Kellock, (November 12, 1893 – December 12, 1975) was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Biography

Born in Perth, Ontario, he graduated from McMaster University with a B.A. in 1915. Kellock was called to bar in 1920 and practised with the firm of WeirFoulds in Toronto.[1]

In 1942, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Two years later, he was appointed as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on October 3, 1944 and served until January 15, 1958. Roy Kellock chaired the Royal Commission investigating the Halifax Riot of VE Day 1945,[2] and co-chaired the Royal Commission on Spying Activities in Canada in response to Gouzenko Affair in 1946.[3]

In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Kellock died on December 12, 1975 at the age of 82.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Honourable Mr. Justice Roy Lindsay Kellock '15 . McMaster University.
  2. Web site: Kellock . R. L. . REPORT on the HALIFAX DISORDERS .
  3. Book: Knight, Amy W. . How the cold war began : the Gouzenko affair and the hunt for Soviet spies . 2005 . Toronto : M&S . Internet Archive . 978-0-7710-9577-1 . 44–45 . en.
  4. Web site: 4 September 2008 . The Honourable Roy Lindsay Kellock . https://web.archive.org/web/20160727192207/https://www.scc-csc.ca/court-cour/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=roy-lindsay-kellock . 2016-07-27 .