Hamnett Pinhey Hill (December 18, 1876 – December 15, 1942) was an

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lawyer and political figure. He represented

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in the

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from 1919 to 1923 as a

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member.

Biography

He was born in

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, 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) and Mary Anne Pinhey, second daughter of Hon. Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (b. England, 1784; d. Ontario, 1857). Hill was educated in Ottawa and at

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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'', which described the controversy around the sale of the Lebreton Flats property formerly owned by Robert Randal. He died in 1942 in Ottawa.
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Hamnett Pinhey Hill Fonds
Library and Archives Canada

References

* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1920'', EJ Chambers

External links

Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Hammett P 1876 births 1942 deaths Politicians from Ottawa Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario