Hugh Paterson Innes, (September 14, 1870 – October 10, 1931) was an

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lawyer, judge and political figure. He represented

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in the

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from 1908 to 1911 as a

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member. He was born in

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, the son of William P. Innes, and was educated in Simcoe. He studied law at

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, was called to the bar in 1893 and set up practice in Simcoe. Innes served as town solicitor and was also a member of the local school board. In 1908, he was named

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. He married Mabel M. Livingston in 1896, with whom he had eight children. He was named judge for

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in May 1931. Innes died later that year when his car collided with a stationary freight train at night during a heavy rainstorm.

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''A cyclopædia of Canadian biography : brief biographies of persons ...'', HW Charlesworth (1919)
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080518075356/http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2006/0504/Columns/033.html Digging into the Past, Orangeville Citizen, May 4, 2006 1870 births 1931 deaths Canadian King's Counsel Judges in Ontario People from Dundas, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MPP-stub