Edward Roper Curzon Clarkson
Edward Roper Curzon "ERC" Clarkson, (August 11, 1852 – April 4, 1931), was a Canadian accountant, insolvency receiver and reformer, and executive noted for serving as a senior partner with Clarkson Gordon & Co (eventually Ernst & Young Canada), founding the first chartered accounting institute in Canada which eventually became the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, serving as the CICA's first president. He was widely regarded in his obituaries as the first Canadian chartered accountant,April 6 (CP) The Daily Colonist (1931-04-07) University of victoria librariesDavid Mackenzie, Clarkson Gordon Story: 125 years (1989 Clarkson Gordon) 7 and was a prominent member and president of the Toronto Board of Trade, an organisation which his father, Thomas Clarkson (Upper Canada) helped found and himself served as president through the 1850s. His son, Geoffrey Teignmouth Clarkson was noted for his specialism in banking audits and corporate rescue. Both were highly regarded within ...
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