Hamnett Pinhey Hill
Hamnett Pinhey Hill | |
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| MPP for Ottawa West | |
| In office October 20, 1919 – May 10, 1923 | |
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| Born | December 18, 1876 Ottawa, Ontario |
| Died | December 15, 1942 (aged 65) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario |
Hamnett Pinhey Hill (December 18, 1876 – December 15, 1942) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Ottawa West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1923 as a Conservative member.
Biography[edit]
He was born in Ottawa, the son of Hamnett Pinhey Hill (1845-1879) and Margaret Christie, and the grandson of Dr. Hamnett Hill, M.R.C.S. (b.1811, England; d.1898, Ottawa)[1] and Mary Anne Pinhey, second daughter of Hon. Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (b. England, 1784; d. Ontario, 1857). Hill was educated in Ottawa and at Toronto University In 1907, he married Beatrice Sara Lindsay. He was a lieutenant in the Army Service Corps. Hill was the author of Robert Randall and the Le Breton Flats,[2] which described the controversy around the sale of the Lebreton Flats property formerly owned by Robert Randal. He died in 1942 in Ottawa.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Valerie Knowles, Capital Lives, Volume I, Book Coach Press, 2005.
- ^ Hill, Hamnett Pinhey (1919). Robert Randall and the Le Breton Flats; An Account of the Early Legal and Political Controversies Respecting the Ownership of a Large Portion of the Present City of Ottawa. Ottawa: James Hope & Son.
- ^ "Samuel Armstrong". Canadian Orange Historical Site. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
- Encyclopedia Canadiana. Vol. 5. Grolier of Canada. 1970. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
- Hamnett Pinhey Hill Fonds, Library and Archives Canada
- Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1920, EJ Chambers
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