Henry (Harry) Joseph Frederick Bloomfield, Q.C., KJ.St.J., B.A., LL.B., M.B.A., (born 1944) is a lawyer, business manager, philanthropist, and 5th generation Canadian.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Bernard Manfred Bloomfield and Neri Judith Loewy, Bloomfield was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1965, a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from Université de Montréal in 1968, joined the Barreau du Québec in 1969. Bloomfield received a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1971. He is married to Nancy Carolyn Tolchinsky and has three sons: Jonathan, Andrew, and James.
He was appointed Queen's Counsel, one of Her Majesty's Counsel "Learned in the Law", in 1991.
From 1980 to 1984, he was the Progressive Conservative Riding Association President for Mount Royal. He was the defeated candidate in that constituency in the 1980 election who ran against Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the longstanding 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
In 1992, he was awarded rank of Knight of Grace in the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and was elevated to Knight of Justice in 1993.
From March 1981 to March 1987 he served as a Member of the Commission des Valeurs Mobilieres du Québec, also then called the Quebec Securities Commission. In 1987 he was named to the Board of Directors of the Federal Business Development Bank, now called the BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada) and served there for 11 years, 7 of which as Chairman of the Audit Committee.
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