Thomas Saunders Hobbs (15 April 1856 – 30 September 1927) was an
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-born
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merchant and political figure. He represented
London
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in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1898 as a
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member.
He was born in
Devon
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shire in 1856, the son of Thomas S. Hobbs, was educated at the
Methodist
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college in
Shebbear and came to
London, Ontario
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with his family. Hobbs was a manufacturer, owned a hardware store and was vice-president of the London Board of Trade.
Hobbs ran for provincial office. He was defeated by
William Ralph Meredith
Sir William Ralph Meredith, (March 31, 1840 – August 21, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge. He served as Leader of the Ontario Conservatives from 1878 to 1894, Chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1900 until his de ...
in 1894 but elected in a by-election held later that year after Meredith was appointed judge. Hobbs was also a director of the Trusts and Guarantee Company and served as paymaster in the local militia. He died in 1927.
References
External links
''The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1897'' JA Gemmill*
''The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography'', HJ Morgan (1898)
1856 births
1927 deaths
People from Great Torrington
English emigrants to Canada
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
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