Henry R. L. Bill | |
Birth Date: | 27 March 1870 |
Birth Place: | Lockeport, Nova Scotia |
Death Place: | Lockeport, Nova Scotia |
Office: | MLA for Shelburne |
Term Start: | 1928 |
Term End: | 1941 |
Predecessor: | Ernest Reginald Nickerson Norman Emmons Smith |
Successor: | Wilfred Dauphinee |
Party: | Nova Scotia Liberal Party |
Occupation: | wholesale fish merchant |
Henry Ryder Locke Bill (March 27, 1870 – December 16, 1942) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Shelburne in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1928 to 1941. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.[1]
Born in 1870 at Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Bill was a wholesale fish merchant by career.[2] He married Ida L. Silver in 1895.[2] Bill served as mayor of Lockeport from 1905 to 1912 and 1919–1924.[2] Bill also served as a member of the Royal Fisheries Commission from 1927 to 1928.[3]
Bill entered provincial politics in 1928, when he was elected in the dual-member Shelburne riding with Liberal Wishart McLea Robertson.[4] He was re-elected in the now single-member Shelburne riding in the 1933 election.[5] In the 1937 election, Bill was re-elected, defeating former Conservative MLA Norman Emmons Smith by 926 votes.[6] He did not reoffer in the 1941 election.[1] Bill died on December 16, 1942, at Lockeport.[2]