Robert Gibbons (December 24, 1811 – August 19, 1898) was an

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political figure. He represented

Huron South Huron South was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1935. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867 which divided the County of Huron into two ridings ...

in the

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as a

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member in 1867 and from 1871 to 1872. He was born in

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, Scotland in 1811 and came to

Lanark County Lanark County is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its county seat is Perth, which was first settled in 1816.Brown, Howard Morton, 1984. Lanark Legacy, Nineteenth Century Glimpses of on Ontario County. Corporation of the Cou ...

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with his family in 1820. They spent five years farming near

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and then Robert moved to Goderich in 1832. He farmed there, raised livestock, and worked as a butcher. Gibbons served in the local militia during the

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. He was warden (head of a county council) for Huron County and served as mayor of Goderich in 1853 to 1855. He was elected to the Ontario legislature in 1867 but unseated on appeal in 1868 and reelected in 1871; he resigned his seat to become sheriff for Huron County in 1872. He died at Goderich in 1898.https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J63B-XWR

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Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbons, Robert 1811 births Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Mayors of places in Ontario Politicians from Glasgow People from Lanark County Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario 1898 deaths Immigrants to Upper Canada