Monday, August 25, 2008

Musing on a long ago Treasurer


Sitting in the Barrie courthouse I noticed the picture in this post.


It was of Gershom William Mason, KC.


A founder of what is now Weir Foulds, Mason was Treasurer of the Law Society in the late 1940's.


I hope the picture does not do him justice.


The expression of mingled exasperation and contempt does not make him look like a very nice man. I suppose being nice and being a leading lawyer are not two items that necessarily go together. But it would be better if they did.


The internet failed to provide some background on Mason. Was he from Barrie? Is that why his picture is here? Did he want something beyond what he achieved -- was he a disappointed politician or lawyer who failed to become a judge? Was his personal life a challenge? Was he, unbeknownst to himself, a tremendous success loved by his staff and fellow lawyers?


Or perhaps he was a very level headed decent man happy to be a lawyer and I am projecting hopes and fears onto his painted canvass? That's the trouble with a painting and a few dates. They raise questions but do nothing to provide answers. They only allow for speculation

5 comments:

Johnathon said...

Another day Morton, more terrorists using children to kill innocent Iraqi civilians.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq

Not a mention of this in the Canadian MSM.

Why do you think the MSM in Canada did not report this, yet all over the world it is being reported?

Johnathon said...

Hey Morton, you have heard how Obama is for "change" and how he cares about American families.

However, a funny fact has emerged.

Barack Obama has a half brother living in shanty-town Keyna, and lives on under a dollar a day.

Is that the type of president Americans need? One like Obama who lets his half brother live in poverty while he is worth millions of dollars?

Morton, would you let your brother leave in a rat infested shantytown in Kenya, all the while running for the President of the USA and trying to sell to people that you care about families?

Morton, would you let your brother live in Kenya, or would you do everything you could to get him to the USA to help with his candidacy?

Obama is a loser for letting his brother live in poverty while he makes 4 million dollars per year.

What say you Morton?

Anonymous said...

he looks like a stern headmaster type from a British period film, perhaps something along the lines of Brideshead Revisited...

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