Henry John Cody (December 6, 1868 – April 27, 1951) was a

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clergyman and President of the

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from 1932 to 1945 and Chancellor from 1944 to 1947. Born in Embro, Ontario, the eldest son of Elijah Cody and Margaret Louisa Torrance, he attended Galt Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. He was ordained a

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priest in 1894 and later served in Toronto at St. Paul's, Bloor Street.

Public life

He was an Ontario MPP for Toronto Northeast — Seat A from 1918 to 1920 and was Minister of Education from 1918 to 1919.

Academic life

Cody maintained a great interest in the

throughout his life. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the University of Toronto which reported in 1906, and later was the Chairman of the Royal Commission on University Finances that reported in 1921. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the University of Toronto's board of governors, and from 1923 to 1932 served as Chairman. He would later become President of the university in 1932, and then its Chancellor in 1944.

Honours

He was made a Companion of the

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in 1943. Cody's son, Maurice, has a K–6 school named after him in Toronto. At the

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, the Cody house in the intramural house system is named in his honour.

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Academic life

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