Mortimer, Arthur Beresford

Arthur Beresford Mortimer, lawyer and soldier, was born on 13 May 1889 in Los Angeles but spent most of his life in Toronto. He attended Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, and Trinity College, obtaining a BA in 1911. He was at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1911 to 1913 and returned to Canada to attend Osgoode Hall Law School. He served in the First World War from 1915 to 1919 as a captain in the Canadian Artillery. He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1919 and was created King's Counsel in 1945. He practised with Ross & Holmstead and Manning, Mortimer & Kennedy. On 28 December 1916 he married Flora MacIvor, and they had five children: Phoebe, Elizabeth, Charles Stewart, Grania, and Maureen. He died in 1956.