Hamnett Pinhey Hill

Hamnett Pinhey Hill
MPP for Ottawa West
In office
October 20, 1919 – May 10, 1923
Personal details
Born (1876-12-18)December 18, 1876
Ottawa, Ontario
Died December 15, 1942(1942-12-15) (aged 65)
Ottawa, Ontario
Political party Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

Hamnett Pinhey Hill (December 18, 1877 – December 15, 1942) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Ottawa West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1923 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Ottawa, 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)[1] and Mary Anne Pinhey, second daughter of Hon. Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (b.England, 1784,-d. Ontario, 1857). Hill was educated in Ottawa and at Toronto University In 1907, he married Beatrice Sara Lindsay. He served as a lieutenant in the Army Service Corps. Hill was the author of Robert Randall and the Le Breton Flats,[2] which described the controversy around the sale of the Lebreton Flats property formerly owned by Robert Randal. He died in 1942 in Ottawa.[3][4][5]

References

  1. Valerie Knowles, Capital Lives, Volume I, Book Coach Press, 2005.
  2. Hill, Hamnett Pinhey (1919). Robert Randall and the Le Breton Flats; An Account of the Early Legal and Political Controversies Respecting the Ownership of a Large Portion of the Present City of Ottawa. Ottawa: James Hope & Son.
  3. "SamuelArmstrong". canadianorangehistoricalsite.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  4. Encyclopedia Canadiana. 5. Grolier of Canada. 1970. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  5. Library and Archives Canada, Hamnett Pinhey Hill Fonds http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2016-11-03T16%3A26%3A53Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=104987&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng


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