A. H. F. Lefroy

Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy (21 June 1852 – 7 March 1919) was a Canadian legal scholar.

Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy was born on 21 June 1852 in Toronto, then in Canada West.^[1] He attended Rugby School and New College, Oxford, receiving an honours BA in 1875 and a MA in 1880.^[1][2]

Lefroy was called to the bars of England and Ontario in 1877 and 1878, respectively.^[1] He became a professor of law at the University of Toronto in 1900.^[1] He wrote four texts on Canadian constitutional law, published between 1897 and 1920.^[3] Lefroy was a legal positivist who endorsed the views of John Austin.^[4]

He died on 7 March 1919 in Ottawa.^[1]

Books

• The Law of Legislative Power in Canada (1897/1898)^[5]
• Canada's Federal System (1913)^[5]
• Leading Cases in Canadian Constitutional Law (1914)^[5]
• A Short Treatise on Canadian Constitutional Law (1918)^[5]