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Excerpt from Opening of the New Library, McGill University, Montreal: Containing the Addresses Delivered on the Occasion With a Description of the Building, Some Points in the History of the University, in Memoriam; October 31st, 1893
Allusion has been made to the loss we have sustained, and which has cast something of a shadow over this meeting. Sir john Abbott was our oldest living graduate on our list of Doctors of Law. He stood at the head of our list of graduates in course, with the exception of his brother Christopher, who passed away some time ago. Not only so, but when, shortly after the reorganization of the university in 1852, the Board of Governors were desirous to establish a Faculty of Law, they selected Mr. Abbott, then quite a young lawyer, who had only been admitted to the bar four or five years before, and appointed him dean of the new faculty. Judge Day, Judge Dunkin and many able men of that day were upon our Board of Governors, and the choice was a recognition on their part of his early merit, and showed their prescience in regard to the career of one of' the young graduates of that time. Many of our graduates have since followed in a like course, not only in law, but in other professions. When, at a later time, public employment obliged him to relinquish his position in the Faculty of Law, he was invited to become a member of the Board of Governors; and although he has not been able to attend many of our meetings, I can testify that he was always ready to give aid and sagacious counsel in every circumstance where any difiiculty arose. I can look back to many occasions on which he gave time and thought to the interests of the university in a manner not acknowledged in any public way. It is well for us, therefore, to remember him on an occasion of this kind but, as Your Excellency has very well said, it should not cast any gloom over us. He is gone from us, but we know that if he were here he would have rejoiced as we do on this occasion, for he was a man who loved books and who loved learning for its own sake.
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