Thomas Deacon (politician)
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Thomas Deacon QC (November 7, 1832 – ) was an Ontario lawyer, judge, businessman and political figure. He represented Renfrew North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1871 to 1879.
He was born in Perth in Upper Canada in 1832. He studied law with his brother John, was called to the bar in 1862 and went on to practice in Pembroke. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1876. He served as a member of the town council. Deacon was a director of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway and president of a lumber company. He was named judge in Renfrew County in 1895.
Deacon, a geographic township in Nipissing District, was named after him.
[edit] External links
- Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography, HJ Morgan (1898)
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