Henry George Carroll Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Henry George Carroll
Order:16th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
Predecessor:Lomer Gouin
Successor:Esioff-Léon Patenaude
Term Start:April 2, 1929
Term End:April 29, 1934
Governor General:The Earl ofWillingdon
The Earl of Bessborough
Premier:Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Constituency Mp2:Kamouraska
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Alexis Dessaint
Successor2:Ernest Lapointe
Term Start2:March 5, 1891
Term End2:November 3, 1904
Birth Date:31 January 1865
Birth Place:Kamouraska, Canada East
Death Place:Quebec City, Quebec
Nationality:Canadian
Party:Liberal
Occupation:lawyer
Cabinet:Solicitor General of Canada (1902-1904)

Henry George Carroll, (January 31, 1865  - August 20, 1939) was a Canadian politician, jurist and the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1929 to 1934 and the last anglophone to serve in that position to the present day.

Born in Kamouraska, Canada East to Michael Burke Carroll of Ireland and Marguerite Campbell of Scotland, Carroll studied law at Laval University, was called to the Quebec Bar in 1889, and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1899.

A Liberal, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1891 representing Kamouraska and was re-elected in 1896 and 1900. He was appointed Solicitor General of Canada in 1902 and served until 1904 at a time when the position was not a cabinet office but was part of the ministry under the Minister of Justice. He left politics to become a judge in the Quebec Superior Court in 1904 and was appointed to the Court of King's Bench in 1908. In 1912 he served as chairman of Quebec's Royal Commission examining the alcohol trade and subsequently served as vice-president province's Quebec Liquor Commission (Commission des liqueurs du Québec) from 1921 to 1929 when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec following the sudden death of Gouin.

Carroll died in Quebec and was buried in his home town of Kamouraska in 1939. His wife was Boulanger Malvine-Amazelie.