birth_place awards birth_date article_title name
london , ontario order of canada 11 may 1934 arthur labatt
 arthur sackville labatt
arthur labatt

arthur sackville labatt , -lrb- born may 11 , 1934 -rrb- is a great-grandson of john labatt , founder of the labatt brewery .
until recently he was the chancellor of the university of western ontario -lrb- uwo -rrb- in london , ontario , canada .
born in london , ontario , labatt studied business at uwo for one year in 1953 , and also briefly studied at mcgill university where he joined the kappa alpha society , however never graduating from either university .
he was expected to take over labatt but by the time he was an adult , the business had been sold outside of the family .
instead , he became an accountant and later worked in the securities industry and investment management .
he founded trimark investment management , a mutual fund company , in 1981 .
labatt became an officer of the order of canada in 1996 .
he succeeded eleanor clitheroe as chancellor of uwo on october 28 , 2004 .
on february 7 , 2007 , the labatt family donated $ 30 million to toronto 's hospital for sick children -- the largest donation in the hospital 's history -- in order to establish the labatt family heart centre , which will provide care for children with congenital heart disease ; and to support the brain tumour research centre , which the labatt family helped establish with a previous donation .
