William Hales Hingston

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honorific-prefix = Mayor
name = William Hales Hingston
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order = 16th Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1875
term_end = 1877
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predecessor = Aldis Bernard
successor = Jean-Louis Beaudry
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birth_date = 29 June 1829
birth_place = Hinchinbrooke, Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1907|2|19|1829|6|29
death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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profession = physician, surgeon
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Sir William Hales Hingston, K.B., M.D., LL.D., D.C.L. (29 June 1829 – 19 February 1907) was a Canadian physician, politician, banker, and Senator.

Born in Hinchinbrooke near Huntingdon, Quebec, he received his MDCM from McGill University in 1851.

In 1875, he became Mayor of Montreal and was re-elected by acclamation for a second and final term.

He was president of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank (today the Laurentian Bank of Canada).

In 1896, he was appointed to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Rougemont, Quebec. He sat as a Conservative and died in office.

He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895. Pius IX made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

He married Margaret Josephine Macdonald, the daughter of Donald Alexander Macdonald, in 1875. Their oldest son, William F. Hingston (1877-1964), was rector of Loyola College from 1918 to 1925.

References

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6784 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=2078&s=M Political biography from the Library of Parliament]
* Alan Hustak (2004). "Sir William Hingston 1829–1907: Montreal Mayor, Surgeon and Banker". Price-Patterson Ltd. ISBN 1-896881-37-8.
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07359a.htm Sir William Hales Hingston] - Catholic Encyclopedia article

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before=William Henry Chaffers
title=Rougemont Senate division
years=1896-1907
after=Georges-Casimir Dessaulles