Mathew Hagarty (-)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Sir John Hawkins Hagarty+ Mathew Hagarty Mathew Hagarty 1 2 3 Born: Ireland Marriage:   General Notes: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, page 399 Volume XII, 1891 to 1900, University of Toronto Press Hagarty, Sir John Hawkins, lawyer, teacher, politician, author, and judge; b. 17 Sept 1816 in Dublin, son of Mathew Hagarty; m. 9 Sept 1843 Anne Elisabeth Grasett (d. 1888), sister of the Reverend Henry James Grasett, in Toronto, and they had three sons; d. there 27 April 1900. The son of an examiner for the Court of Prerogative for Ireland, John Hawkins Hagarty was educated privately and at Trinity College in Dublin, where he stayed for a year ( 1843-1833). He immigrated to Upper Canada in 1834, spending his first year on a farm near Bowmanville 3   Noted events in his life were: • Occupation: Barrister: Dublin, Ireland. 2

1 Wood, Mrs. Alan Hagarty, personal knowledge, Wood, Mrs. Alan Hagarty, personal knowledge, December 10, 2002.

2 Hagarty, Catherine, message posting on Ancestry.com, Catherine Hagarty. I am trying to get information on Matthew Hagarty that emigrated to USA from Dublin, Ireland, son of Matthew Hagarty, barrister of Dublin and brother of John Hawkins Hagarty who came to Canada (1816-1900); if this sounds familiar to anyone, please contact me!!
Catherine Hagarty, Ancestry message board

3 Dictionary of Canadian Biography, page 399, University of Toronto Press, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, (Volume XII, 1891 to 1900, University of Toronto Press). :
Hagarty, Sir John Hawkins, lawyer, teacher, politician, author, and judge; b. 17 Sept 1816 in Dublin, son of Mathew Hagarty; m. 9 Sept 1843 Anne Elisabeth Grasett (d. 1888), sister of the Reverend Henry James Grasett, in Toronto, and they had three sons; d. there 27 April 1900.

The son of an examiner for the Court of Prerogative for Ireland, John Hawkins Hagarty was educated privately and at Trinity College in Dublin, where he stayed for a year ( 1843-1833). He immigrated to Upper Canada in 1834, spending his first year on a farm near Bowmanville. Then, for five years , he was a student-at-law in the office of George Duggan in Toronto. He was called to the bar in 1840, and from 1846 his law partner was John Willoughby Crawford, a future lieutenant governor of Ontario.
In addition to his busy career as a barrister (he was appointed QC in 1850), Hagarty served as a professor of law at Trinity College in Toronto from 1852 to 1855, the year in which it awarded him a DCL. He was a member of the college's council between 1857 and 1869.

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In recognition of his legal services Hagarty was knighted on his retirement in 1897. A member of the Church of St. George the Martyr (Anglican), he died in 1900 and was buried without public ceremony in St. James Cemetery in Toronto.

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