George Burbidge

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George Wheelock Burbidge (6 February 1847 – 18 February 1908) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and author. He is noted for having conducted the prosecution of Louis Riel during his trial for treason following the North-West Rebellion of 1885. He subsequently had a distinguished career as a jurist, becoming on 1 October 1887 the first justice of the Exchequer Court, the predecessor to the modern Federal Court of Canada. His 1890 book, A digest of criminal law of Canada, heavily influenced the groundbreaking Canadian Criminal Code of 1892.

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