George Brown Hillman

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(5 July 1867 – 19 March 1932) was a surgeon and briefly the

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MP for

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. Hillman was born in Halifax in 1867, the son of the Independent Minister Rev S.D. Hillman. After attending Ilkley High School, he qualified in medicine at

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Medical Department. He qualified as a

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in 1892, and practiced in the

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and

areas of the

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."Dr. G. B. Hillman, M.P." (obituary), ''The Times'', 21 March 1932, p. 19. He served in the

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during the

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, being promoted to Hon. Captain on 31 July 1917, and was Officer-in-Charge of the Spinola and Hamrun military hospitals in

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and medical officer of

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Auxiliary Hospital in Yorkshire. He was awarded the

for his services. From 1918, Hillman was Chairman of the West Riding of Yorkshire Local Medical Panel Committee. He was Conservative candidate for Normanton in the 1923 general election. He served on Wakefield County Borough council from 1926,"Conservative M.P. Dead", ''Manchester Guardian'', 21 March 1932, p 9. and was Mayor of Wakefield for the municipal year 1927–28. He was Leader of the Conservative group on the council. Hillman was elected MP for Wakefield in the 1931 general election, defeating the incumbent Labour MP, George Henry Sherwood, by 4,107 votes. Hillman was 64 years old when elected. He did not serve long as an MP. After suffering from heart trouble, he died of

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in March 1932. He had asked five questions but did not make a speech in Parliament.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hillman, George Brown 1867 births 1932 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Royal Army Medical Corps officers UK MPs 1931–1935 Politics of Wakefield Members of the Order of the British Empire 19th-century British medical doctors 20th-century British medical doctors Local government in Wakefield People from Halifax, West Yorkshire

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