John A. Tory
| John A. Tory | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Arnold Tory March 7, 1930 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | April 3, 2011 (aged 81) Florida, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater |
University of Toronto University of Toronto Law School Osgoode Hall Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer and corporate executive |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth "Liz" Bacon (1953–2011; his death) |
| Children | 4 (including John Tory) |
| Parent(s) | John S. D. Tory |
| Relatives | James Marshall Tory (brother) |
John Arnold Tory, QC (March 7, 1930 – April 3, 2011) was a Canadian lawyer and corporate executive.
Tory was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Kathreen Jean Arnold and John Stewart Donald Tory, a lawyer who founded Torys. He had an older sister, Virginia, and a fraternal twin brother, James Marshall Tory.
Tory, along with his brother, James, graduated from the University of Toronto Schools in 1946 at the age of 16. Their father sent them to Phillips Academy Andover, where they studied for two years before enrolling at the University of Toronto. They were undergraduate students for two years before they switched streams to attend the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1949. They graduated in 1952 and completed two years of additional training at Osgoode Hall, and with his brother, they joined their father’s firm at the age of 24.
Together with his twin brother James Marshall Tory, he entered the practice of law in 1953, later founding the firm of Tory, Tory, Deslauriers (now Torys LLP) and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1965.
After successfully guiding the build-up of Torys, John ceased practising law in 1974 and began working full-time for the Thomson family, first under founder Roy Thomson and then, following Roy's death in 1976, for his son Kenneth, eventually becoming President of the family's principal holding company, The Woodbridge Company Limited. Until his death he was the president of Thomson Investments Limited. John was a friend and financial advisor of the late media magnate Kenneth Thomson for fifty years and continued until his death to serve on the board of Thomson Reuters, company formed by the merger of Thomson Corporation with international news service Reuters. The Globe and Mail described him as the "sage consigliere to the Thomson family."
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