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Born in 1912, in Toronto, and known to thousands of students as "The Padre," the Rev. Dr. A. Marshall Laverty served as Chaplain at Queen's University at Kingston for 36 years (1947-1983), and is one of the University's best-known personalities. He was educated at the University of Toronto, graduating with honours in 1937. "Marsh" as he was also affectionately known, was ordained a minister in the United Church of Canada in the same year and served in parishes in Toronto, Manitoulin Island, and Stirling, Ontario, before enlisting as a Chaplain in the Canadian army in 1942 and serving with troops in Europe. In 1947, he was appointed Queen's Chaplain. He has acted as a minister, advisor, counsellor, and friend to generations of students and his organizational skills and contacts across Canada have been of immeasurable benefit to the University. Famed for his rhetorical skills and prodigious memory for names, he has also been active on behalf of numerous charitable organizations in the Kingston area, and served on the Frontenac County Board of Education for more than 30 years. He retired from his position as Chaplain in 1983, but has remained extremely active in the University community. He has received numerous awards from Queen's and other Canadian institutions. A. Marshall Laverty was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1985, and received an honorary doctorate from Queen's in 1991.

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Leslie Edmund Law was born at Northampton, England, on 5 February 1903. He was educated at Blexham School, and at University College, London. He received an M.A. in Literature from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1932; and an M.A. in Philosophy form University of London, in 1948. From 1927 until 1940, he was first a Lecturer and then an Associate Professor of Ancient History at Queen's University at Kingston. During this time he also served as Secreatry of the Arts Research Committee, President of the Queen's Players, Honorary President of the Student Christian Movement, member of the Kingston General Hospital's Committee of Manegement.
Upon his return to England in 1940, he took on the role of Acting Secretary of the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford (1940-1945), and in 1948, he became the Assistant Master, in charge of the Department of Latin, at the County Grammar School, Mitcham, Surrey.

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Professor Hugh John Lawford was born in 1933 at Edmonton, Alberta. He received a B.A. in 1954 and LL.B. in 1955 from the University of Alberta. As a Rhodes Scholar, he attended the University of Oxford and received his B.C.L. from Wadham College in 1957. Lawford was called to the Bar of Alberta in 1958 and in the same year became Assistant Professor of Law at Queen's University, Kingston. In 1962, he was called to the Bar of Ontario and became Associate Professor of Law at Queen's. From 1964 to 1965 he was a Special Assistant to the Government House Leader. In 1965 he became Professor of Law at Queen's and from 1965 to 1966 was a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister. From 1968 to 1973 he was Director of the QUIC/LAW Project. Since 1973 he has been President of QL Systems Ltd.