Walter Harold Somerville

Walter Harold Somerville was born in Guelph and joined the actuarial department of Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada in 1900. In 1918 he was appointed secretary and rose to the office of executive vice-president in 1948. He served as president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers’ Association. Somerville was president of the Waterloo County Health Association which operated Freeport Sanatorium, was a member of the executive of the Waterloo branch of the Red Cross Society and a senior elder of Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo. During the Second World War he was joint chairman of the National War Savings Committee and a member of the National War Finance Committee and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.