Joseph Badenoch Clearihue (1887–1976) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, academic and politician.

Life

Clearihue was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1887. He was educated at Victoria High School before attending Victoria College, British Columbia (a predecessor institution of the University of Victoria) in 1903, where he was one of the first to study at the college. He then attended McGill University before winning a

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to the University of Oxford, studying for two years at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1911. During the First World War, Clearihue served with the Fifth Canadian Field Artillery Unit. Thereafter, he worked as a lawyer and served as a Member of the

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when he was elected in 1920 as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party for

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. He was later an alderman for Victoria and a county court judge, becoming chair of the Victoria College Council in 1947 and leading it to the award of university status in 1963. He was the first chancellor for the University and he served as chair of the Board of Governors from 1963 to 1966. The Clearihue building on the University of Victoria campus is named in his honour. Clearihue died in 1976.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clearihue, Joseph 1887 births 1976 deaths University of Victoria alumni McGill University alumni Canadian Rhodes Scholars Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford 20th-century Canadian lawyers Judges in British Columbia Canadian military personnel of World War I Canadian university and college chancellors British Columbia Liberal Party MLAs Politicians from Victoria, British Columbia Victoria College, British Columbia alumni