Robert Hervey

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Robert Hervey

Robert Hervey Source: Library and Archives Canada, C-002049
Mayor of Bytown
In office 1849–1849
Preceded by	John Bower Lewis
Succeeded by	John Scott
Personal details
Born	1820 Glasgow
Died	Chicago

Robert Hervey (1820–??) was the third mayor of Bytown in 1849. ^[1]

He was born in Glasgow in 1820. He came to Canada where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He partnered in a law practice in Bytown with John Bower Lewis. Hervey was mayor at the time of the Stony Monday Riot where supporters of Hervey, a Tory, clashed with Reformists in what is now the Byward Market area. In 1852, he moved to Chicago, where he continued to practice law. He was one of the founding members of the Chicago Bar Association.

References

↑ Dave Mullington "Chain of Office: Biographic Sketches of Ottawa's Mayors (1847-1948)" (Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005)

v t e Mayors of Ottawa

Bytown (1847-1855)	J. Scott J.B. Lewis Hervey Sparrow R.W. Scott Turgeon Friel

Ottawa (1855-2001)	J.B. Lewis McGillivray Workman Friel Dickinson Lyon Rochester Martineau Featherston Lyon-Fellowes Waller Bangs Mackintosh St. Jean Bate McDougal Stewart Erratt Birkett Durocher Cox Borthwick Bingham Payment Morris Davidson Cook J. Ellis Hastey D. Scott Champagne Hopewell Hinchey J. Ellis McVeity Porter Fisher Plant Watters Balharrie A. Ellis Allen Nolan J.E.S. Lewis Bourque Goodwin Whitton Nelms Reid Fogarty Benoit Greenberg Dewar Durrell Laviolette Holzman Watson Higdon

Ottawa (2001 amalgamation-present)	Chiarelli O'Brien Watson

Preceded by John Bower Lewis	Mayor of Bytown 1849	Succeeded by John Scott

Persondata
Name	Hervey, Robert
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Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	1820
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