Mount Sinai Sanatarium, in Préfontaine. In 1924, Davis divorced his wife in order to marry Eleanor Curran (d. 1963). He spent many of the final years of his life at Les Glaïeuls, his villa in Cannes, where he died in 1928. He is interred within Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. His former residence in the Golden Square Mile (formerly called Sir Mortimer B. Davis House) is now known as Purvis Hall, on the grounds of McGill University. Following his death, a dispute arose about the execution of his will. His widow, who was one of the executors, and his son together sued to have the other two executors, Lord Shaughnessy and A.M. Reaper, removed on the basis of fraud. The litigation was extensive, ultimately being decided in favour of Shaugnessy and Reaper by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the highest court in the British Empire, including Canada. Davis left 75% of his estate to be used for the construction of a Jewish public hospital in Montreal that would bear his name. However, he stipulated that the funds be invested for 50 years to allow them to reach a sum capable of funding a sizable hospital. And so it was that in 1978, $10 million from his estate was donated to the existing Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, which was renamed the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital. His first wife was an active philanthropist and was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur and Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died in 1963. The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, the Lady Davis Fellowship, the Lady Davis Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Center (a 7-storey low-rise building of the Technion in Haifa), the Lady Davis Building (the main building of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem) and the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel are named in her honour. References 1866 births 1928 deaths Anglophone Quebec people Businesspeople from Montreal Businesspeople in the tobacco industry Canadian expatriates in France Canadian Jews Canadian Knights Bachelor High School of Montreal alumni Jewish Canadian philanthropists Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery