Hamnett Pinhey Hill

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Hamnett Pinhey Hill
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MPP for Ottawa West
In office
October 20, 1919 – May 10, 1923
Personal details
Born(1876-12-18)December 18, 1876
Ottawa, Ontario
DiedDecember 15, 1942(1942-12-15) (aged 65)
Ottawa, Ontario
Political partyProgressive 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[]

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[]

  1. ^ Valerie Knowles, Capital Lives, Volume I, Book Coach Press, 2005.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Samuel Armstrong". Canadian Orange Historical Site. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
    - Encyclopedia Canadiana. 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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