predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date death_place nationality party birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
john willoughby crawford canadian john beverly robinson cobourg , upper canada west toronto 04 january 1881 nice , france canadian liberal 20 august 1836 december 18 , 1873 dent -lrb- 1881 -rrb- 2.550 thomas moss.jpg thomas moss -lrb- jurist -rrb-
 october 2 , 1875 thomas moss
thomas moss -lrb- jurist -rrb-

thomas moss -lrb- august 20 , 1836 -- january 4 , 1881 -rrb- was a canadian lawyer , judge and political figure .
he represented west toronto in the canadian house of commons from 1873 to 1875 as a liberal member .
he was born in cobourg , upper canada , the son of john moss , and grew up in toronto .
he was educated at upper canada college and the university of toronto .
moss studied law with adam crooks , was called to the bar in 1861 and practiced law in toronto .
in 1863 , he married amy , the daughter of robert baldwin sullivan .
moss was named queen 's counsel in 1872 .
he was also a lecturer for the law society of upper canada and served as registrar and a member of the senate for the university of toronto .
he was elected to the house of commons in an 1873 by-election held after the death of john willoughby crawford .
in 1875 , he accepted a position as judge in the ontario court of error and appeal ; he was named chief justice in that court two years later and , in 1878 , he was named chief justice of ontario .
moss retired from the bench in 1880 due to poor health .
he died in nice , france early in the following year .
his brother charles also served as chief justice of ontario .
