Hamnett Pinhey Hill Explained

Hamnett Pinhey Hill
Birth Date:18 December 1876
Birth Place:Ottawa, Ontario
Death Place:Ottawa, Ontario
Office:MPP for Ottawa West
Term:October 20, 1919 – May 10, 1923
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

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Valerie Knowles, Capital Lives, Volume I, Book Coach Press, 2005.
  2. Book: Hill. Hamnett Pinhey. 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. 1919. James Hope & Son. Ottawa.
  3. Web site: Samuel Armstrong. https://web.archive.org/web/20140728054039/http://canadianorangehistoricalsite.com/SamuelArmstrong.php. dead. July 28, 2014. Canadian Orange Historical Site. December 13, 2014.
    - Book: Encyclopedia Canadiana. 1970. 5. Grolier of Canada. December 13, 2014.
    - Hamnett Pinhey Hill Fonds, Library and Archives Canada