David Ross McCord
David Ross McCord was a Canadian lawyer and philanthropic founder of the McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada.
McCord was born in Montreal to a family of lawyers and businessmen of Irish origin who had emigrated to Canada around the year 1760. He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord , Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage. His parents, in an upper class, bilingual marriage, inculcated in McCord a love of art and science from an early age. When he grew up, he decided to continue the family tradition and study law at McGill University, eventually becoming a magistrate who gained fame by intervening on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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