John Doull (November 1, 1878 – October 27, 1969) was a lawyer, judge and politician. He represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Conservative member from 1925 to 1933. He was born in

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, the son of James Doull (of the North British Society and the son of a

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immigrant, and Christina McLellan.Image of John Doull Sr.
and biography on p. 304 He was educated in New Glasgow and at

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, on the Board of Governors of which he was later to serve. He worked in his father's grocery business and then as a bookkeeper before returning to Dalhousie to study law. Doull was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1910 and went on to practice in Glace Bay and New Glasgow. From 1914 to 1925, he was solicitor for the town of Trenton. Doull married Irene McGregor in 1916. He served in the province's Executive Council as

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from 1928 to 1931 and Attorney General from 1931 to 1933. He was a judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1961. Doull was also president of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He died in Halifax. The naval engineer John Doull, the philosopher

James Doull James Alexander Doull (1918–2001) was a Canadian philosopher and academic who was born and lived most of his life in Nova Scotia. His father was the politician, jurist, and historian John Doull. Biography From the late 1940s until the mid-1980 ...

, and the musician Mary Doull, a scholar in French, were his children. Doull published the following historical books: * ''Angus McGillivray, D.D.'' (1938) * ''A History of the Bible Society in Nova Scotia, 1813-1963'' (1963) * ''Sketches of the Attorney Generals of Nova Scotia, 1750-1926'' (1964)

References

Marble, AE ''Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches ...'' (1977)
p. 145-6 * Allison, D & Tuck, C
''History of Nova Scotia, Vol. 3''
(1916) p. 669-70 1878 births 1969 deaths Judges in Nova Scotia People from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub