Robert Newton Hall (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Newton Hall (July 26, 1836 - July 1, 1907) was a lawyer, educator, judge and political figure in Quebec. He represented Town of Sherbrooke in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1891 as a Liberal-Conservative member. He was born in Laprairie, Lower Canada, the son of the Reverend R.V. Hall, and received a B.A. from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. He was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1861 and set up practice in Sherbrooke. Hall married Lena Kendrick in 1862. He received a LL.D. from Bishop's College in 1880. In the same year, he was named Queen's Counsel. Hall was batonnier for the St. Francis section of the Quebec bar from 1877 to 1881 and was batonnier for the province in 1878. Hall served as chair of the Select Committee on Geological Surveys in 1884.