FATHER OF PENNY POSTAGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23013, 3 October 1944, Page 5

FATHER OF PENNY POSTAGE

Death Announced From Canada

(7.30 p.m.) TORONTO. Oct. 1. The death has occurred of Sir William Mulock, P.C., K.C.M.G., Q.C., M.A., LL.D., in his 101st year. He was “Canada's grand old man,” and was father of the Empire penny postage rate.

Sir William Mulock was born at Bond Head, Canada, on January 19, 1844, and was educated at the Newmarket Grammar School and Toronto University. He graduated in Arts in 1863, became a barrister in 1868 and a Queen’s Counsellor in 1888. He was first elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1882, and re-elected in 1887, 1891, 1896, 1900 and 1904. He became ViceChancellor of the University of Toronto on the death of Chief Justice Moss in 1881, and was continuously reelected until 1900, when he resigned in consequence of the extent of his other public duties. Sir William was Post-master-General of Canada from 1896 to 1905, Minister for Labour 19001905, Chief Justice of the Exchequer. Division of the Supreme Court of Ontario 1905-23, Chief Justice of the Second Divr’on, 1923; Chief Justice of Ontario, 1923-36; and Chancellor of the University since 1924. On the motion of Sir William, the Inter-Imperial Postal Conference adopted penny postage within the Empire in 1898. He also introduced and carried through the Canadian House of Commons a Bill establishing the Department of Labour in 1900. For some years he was lecturer on equity, and was law examiner for the Law Society of Upper Canada. He represented the Government and Dominion of Canada at the inauguration of the Federal Parliament of Australia.