{{short description|Canadian judge (1893–1975)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Roy Kellock | image = Roy Lindsay Kellock 1950 (cropped).jpg | caption = Kellock, {{circa|1950}} | office = Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | predecessor = Thibaudeau Rinfret | successor = Ronald Martland | term_start = October 3, 1944 | term_end = January 15, 1958 | nominator = William Lyon Mackenzie King | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|11|12}} | birth_place = Perth, Ontario | birth_name = Roy Lindsay Kellock | death_date = {{death date and age|1975|12|12|1893|11|12}} | honorific_suffix = CC }} '''Roy Lindsay Kellock''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|size=100}} (November 12, 1893 – December 12, 1975) was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
== Biography == Born in Perth, Ontario, he graduated from McMaster University with a B.A. in 1915. Kellock was called to bar in 1920 and practised with the firm of WeirFoulds in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Honourable Mr. Justice Roy Lindsay Kellock '15 |url=https://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/alumni/125/POI_Bios/Kellock_Bio.html |publisher=McMaster University}}</ref>
In 1942, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Two years later, he was appointed as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on October 3, 1944 and served until January 15, 1958. Roy Kellock chaired the Royal Commission investigating the Halifax Riot of VE Day 1945,<ref>{{Cite report |last=Kellock |first=R. L. |title=Report on the Halifax Disorders, May 7th–8th, 1945 |url=https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pco-bcp/commissions-ef/kellock1945-eng/kellock1945-eng.pdf |year=1945 |publisher=King's Printer}}</ref> and co-chaired the Royal Commission on Spying Activities in Canada in response to Gouzenko Affair in 1946.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Knight |first=Amy W. |url=http://archive.org/details/howcoldwarbegang0000knig |title=How the Cold War Began: the Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies |date=2005 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-7710-9577-1 |pages=44–45 |language=en |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{sfn|Snell|Vaughan|1985|p=158}}
In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.<ref>{{OCC|2075}}</ref>
Kellock died on December 12, 1975 at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 September 2008 |title=The Honourable Roy Lindsay Kellock |url=https://www.scc-csc.ca/court-cour/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=roy-lindsay-kellock|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727192207/https://www.scc-csc.ca/court-cour/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=roy-lindsay-kellock |archive-date=2016-07-27 }}</ref>
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== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book |title=Captive Court: A Study of the Supreme Court of Canada |last=Bushnell |first=Ian |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-7735-0851-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/captivecourtstud0000bush |url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book |title=The Supreme Court of Canada: History of the Institution |last1=Snell |first1=James G. |last2=Vaughan |first2=Frederick |publisher=The Osgoode Society |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-8020-3417-5 |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/supremecourtofca0000snel |url-access=registration}} {{refend}}
== External links == * [https://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/about-apropos/judges-juges/list-liste/roy-lindsay-kellock/ Supreme Court of Canada biography]
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