Henry Marshall Tory

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Henry Marshall Tory (January 11, 1864 – February 6, 1947) was the first president of the University of Alberta (1908-1928), the first president of the National Research Council (1928-1935) and the first president of Carleton College (1942-1947).

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Born on a farm near Guysborough, in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia he received an Honours B.A. in 1890 from McGill University. After graduating he studied theology and received a B.D. from Wesleyan College affiliated with McGill. He spent the next two years preaching at a church. In 1893, he became a lecturer in mathematics at McGill, married Annie Gertrude Frost (they had no children) and received an M.A. in mathematics in 1896. He received a D.Sc. degree in 1903 and was promoted to associate professor of mathematics.

In 1906, he helped establish the McGill University College of British Columbia which was absorbed into the University of British Columbia in 1915. From 1908 to 1929, he was the first President of the University of Alberta. Tory, initially somewhat reluctantly, donned uniform in 1916 and became a Colonel in the Canadian Forces. After a tour of the front lines in France he returned to England and proceeded to set up and run what came to be known as the Khaki University, enrolling over 50,000 Canadian student soldiers by the end of the Great War. Tory returned to Alberta in 1919, and resumed his position as President of the University of Alberta. Nearing retirement, on June 1, 1928, he accepted an appointment as the first President of the Council and Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Laboratories (which was later called the National Research Council of Canada). From 1939 to 1940, he was president of the Royal Society of Canada and from 1942, until his death in 1947, he was the first president of Carleton College (which was later called Carleton University).

[edit] References

"Henry Marshall Tory, A Biography", originally published 1954, current edition January 1992, E.A. Corbett, Toronto: Ryerson Press, ISBN 0-88864-250-4

[edit] External links

• Henry Marshall Tory at The Canadian Encyclopedia
• University of Alberta biography

Academic Offices
Preceded by New position	President of the University of Alberta 1908–1928	Succeeded by Robert C. Wallace
Preceded by New position	President of Carleton College 1942–1947	Succeeded by Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum