William Hoyle (other)
William Hoyle may refer to: * William Hoyle (politician) (1842–1918), English-born furniture maker and politician in Ontario, Canada * William Hoyle (temperance reformer) (1831–1886), British temperance reformer and vegetarian * William Evans Hoyle Dr William Evans Hoyle FRSE (28 January 1855 – 7 February 1926) was a noted British zoologist. A specialist in deep sea creatures he worked on classification and illustrations from the Challenger Expedition from 1882 to 1888. Life Hoyle ...

William Hoyle (politician)
William Henry Hoyle (August 28, 1842 – October 27, 1918) was an English-born furniture maker and politician in Ontario, Canada. He was speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1912 to 1914 and served as Conservative MLA for Ontario North from 1898 to 1918. He was born in Barnstaple, Devonshire, was educated there and emigrated to Canada soon afterwards. Hoyle settled in Cannington, Ontario Cannington is a community in Brock Township, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. The town is on the Beaver River. History Originally part of the original Brock Township, (historic map) Cannington was first settled in 1833. It was first known as Mc ..., where he worked as a cabinet maker and upholsterer. Hoyle served on the Cannington School Board, also serving as secretary treasurer. In 1895, he became reeve of Cannington. He helped found All Saint's Anglican Church and served as Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ontario (1898) and Grand Master of the local International Order ...
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William Hoyle (temperance Reformer)
William Hoyle (5 November 1831 – 26 February 1886) was a British temperance reformer and vegetarian. Biography Hoyle born in Rossendale Valley was the fourth child of poor Methodist parents.Blocker, Jack S. Fahey, David M; Tyrrell, Ian R. (2003). ''Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Enclyopedia, Volume 1''. ABC-CLIO. p. 302. He worked in a mill from the age of eight and was fully employed as a mill worker by the age of thirteen. Several years later he was a full operative, supervising several looms. He became a vegetarian at the age of seventeen for economic and hygienic reasons. Hoyle became a teetotaller in about 1846. He was a cotton manufacturer at Brooksbottom with his father in 1851. He established his own mill at Tottington in 1859 which employed 500 men by 1877. Hoyle contributed to the statistical literature of the temperance movement.Winskill, P. T. (1892)''The Temperance Movement and Its Workers, Volume 3'' Blackie & Son. p. 216 He autho ...
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