Educator.
Born at Winnipeg on 27 March 1918, son of Richard Lord (1883-1972) and Clara Agnes Johnston (1893-1988), he graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1939. He taught at Oak River School (1940-1942), Hugh John Macdonald School (1944-1945), Mulvey School (1945-1953), and served as Vice-Principal of Greenway School (1959-1963) and Principal of Harrow School (1963-1966), Mulvey School (1966-1969), and Greenway School (1969-1976). He retired in 1976 and moved to Antigua, West Indies where he lived for 13 years and became an Antiguan citizen. On 5 September 1942, he married architect Elizabeth Merle Crawford at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. They had two sons and two daughters. He died at St-Pierre-Jolys on 14 May 2018.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Engagements herald new high in marriages for September,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 August 1942, page 10.
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“McGuire – Lord,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 1970, page 27.
Obituary [Richard Lord], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 November 1972, page 35.
Obituary [Clara Agnes Lord], Winnipeg Free Press, 12 April 1988, page 42.
“Birthdays,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 March 2016, page 93.
Obituary [Elizabeth Hunter McGuire], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 March 2018.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 26 May 2018.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 July 2022
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