Crankshaw, James, 1844-1921

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Crankshaw, James, 1844-1921

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        1844-1921

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        James Crankshaw was born on July 20, 1844, in Manchester, England.

        He was a lawyer who immigrated to Canada in 1876. He studied law at McGill University (B.C.L., 1882), and was called to the bar of Quebec in 1883 (K.C., 1906). He practised law in Montreal and was the author of "The Criminal Code of Canada" (1894) and "A Practical Guide to Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace” (1895), both of which reached several editions.

        In 1867, he married Sarah Anne Ashton (1846–). In 1878, he remarried Hannah Fineberg. He died on December 16, 1921, in Montreal, Quebec.

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