Robert Hanbidge Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Robert Hanbidge
Order:12th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
Predecessor:Frank Lindsay Bastedo
Successor:Stephen Worobetz
Term Start:March 1, 1963
Term End:February 2, 1970
Governor General:Georges Vanier
Roland Michener
Premier:Woodrow Lloyd
Ross Thatcher
Constituency Mp2:Kindersley
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Merv Johnson
Successor2:Reg Cantelon
Term Start2:March 31, 1958
Term End2:March 1, 1963
Office3:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Kerrobert
Predecessor3:Donald Laing
Successor3:Donald Laing
Term Start3:June 6, 1929
Term End3:June 19, 1934
Birth Name:Robert Leith Hanbidge
Birth Date:1891 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Southampton, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:Canadian
Spouse:Jane Mitchell
m. 8 September 1915[1]
Party:Progressive Conservative
Otherparty:Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Robert Leith "Dinny" Hanbidge (16 March 1891  - 25 July 1974) was a Canadian lawyer, municipal, provincial and federal politician, and the 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan.

Early life

Born in Southampton, Ontario, the son of Robert and Fanny (Murton) Hanbidge, he graduated from the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute in 1909 and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan where he took the Saskatchewan Law Society law course. He articled in the law firm of Sir Frederick Haultain, former Premier of the North-West Territories, and became a member of the Saskatchewan Law Society in 1915. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1933. In 1915, he married Jane Mitchell. His son, Robert Donald Keith Hanbidge, a Flying Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, was killed during World War II.[2]

From 1911 to 1913, he played football for the Regina Rugby Club (now the Saskatchewan Roughriders).

Political career

In 1920, he was elected mayor of Kerrobert, Saskatchewan. In 1929, he was elected as the Conservative candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan and was the Chief Whip in Premier James Thomas Milton Anderson's co-operative government.

He first ran for the House of Commons of Canada as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Kindersley in the 1945 federal election. Although defeated, he was elected in the 1958 federal election and re-elected in the 1962 federal election. In 1963, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan and served until 1970.

In 1968, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan.[3] He was Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan from 1 March 1963 until 1 February 1970. The convention hall in the new Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts was originally named Hanbidge Hall but has subsequently been renamed twice. Hanbidge Crescent in Regina is also named in his honour.[4]

References

Notes

  1. Book: Normandin, Pierre G. . Canadian Parliamentary Guide . 1960 .
  2. Web site: In memory of Flying Officer ROBERT DONALD KEITH HANBIDGE. 2009-10-30.
  3. Web site: Honorary degree recipients. University of Saskatchewan. 2009-10-30.
  4. Web site: Hanbidge Crescent . https://web.archive.org/web/20050211112922/http://collections.ic.gc.ca/streetsofregina/hanbidge.htm . 11 February 2005 . 2009-10-30 .

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