Person

Ross, Howard Irwin, 1907-1974

1907-1974

Howard Irwin Ross was born in 1907 in Montreal and died in 1974. His parents were John Wardrop and Gertrude Holland Ross, and he married Dorothy Dean St. Clair in 1938. They had two children. Ross received his B.A. from McGill in 1930, his M.A. from Oxford in 1932, and became a C.A. in 1937. During World War II, Ross worked as chairman on the Foreign Exchange Control Board and Administrator for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. For this, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946. A partner in the accounting firm of Touche, Ross, Bailey and Smart, he also served as president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' Committee on Accounting and Auditing Research, and for a term as president of the Québec Institute of Chartered Accountants. He wrote a textbook entitled The Elusive Art of Accounting. From 1959 to 1964, Ross sat on the Board of Governors as graduate representative, and in 1964 he became Chancellor of the University. In 1969 he resigned from the Chancellorship to become Dean of the newly created Faculty of Management, a position he held until his retirement in 1973. In 1974, the Howard Ross Library of Management was named in his honour.

Revised on July 17, 2024, by Leah Louttit-Bunker

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