Hugh Farthing
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hugh Cragg Farthing
| image = Hugh Farthing NB-16-237.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Portrait of Hugh Farthing in 1940
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KC|size=100%}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|7|17}}
| birth_place =Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
| death_date= {{death date and age|1968|6|8|1892|7|17}}
| death_place = Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| term_start = 1930
| term_end = 1935
| predecessor = Alexander McGillivray
Robert Parkyn
| successor =Edith Gostick
Ernest Manning
Fred Anderson
John Hugill
| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary
| religion =
| party = Conservative
| alma_mater = McGill University (BA)
Osgoode Hall Law School (LLB)
| spouse =
| children =
| occupation = barrister, judge, politician
| father = John Cragg Farthing
| relatives = John Colborne Farthing (brother)
| branch = Canadian Expeditionary Force
| allegiance = {{flag|Canada}}
| battles = World War I
| serviceyears = 1915-1918
| rank = Lieutenant
| unit =
|commands =
| awards =
}}
Hugh Cragg Farthing {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KC|size=100%}} (July 17, 1892 – June 8, 1968) was a Canadian provincial level politician, lawyer and judge from Alberta. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 until 1935 representing the electoral district of Calgary.
Early life
Hugh Cragg Farthing was born July 17, 1892, in Woodstock, Ontario, to Revered John Cragg Farthing the Anglican Bishop of Montreal and Elizabeth Mary Kemp, he had one younger brother John Colborne Farthing. He was educated at Kingston Collegiate Institute and McGill University completing his Bachelor of Arts in 1914, where he was also a member of Kappa Alpha Society, and later Osgoode Hall Law School to complete a Bachelor of Laws in 1919. His education at McGill was interrupted by service in World War I.{{cite book |editor1-last=Normandin |editor1-first=A. L. |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide |date=1935 |publisher=Mortimer Company Ltd. |location=Ottawa |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame1935unse |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |ISSN=0315-6168 |OCLC=893686591 |page=[https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame1935unse/page/368 368]}}
Farthing was called to the bar in Ontario in 1919 and began to practice in Toronto. He later moved to Calgary and was admitted to the Alberta bar on June 11, 1923.{{cite book |last1=Knafla |first1=Louis A. |title=Lords of the western bench: a biographical history of the supreme and district courts of Alberta, 1876-1990 |date=1997 |publisher=The Legal Archives Society of Alberta |isbn=0-9681939-0-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/lordsofwesternbe0000knaf/page/41 41] |url=https://archive.org/details/lordsofwesternbe0000knaf/ |access-date=September 11, 2020 |ol=17525532M}}
Political career
Farthing ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the Calgary electoral district for the 1930 Alberta general election. He won his seat on the 7th vote count taking third place overall.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1930&Constit=Calgary| title=Calgary results 1930 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation| accessdate=2009-05-17}} He was defeated running for a second term in office in the 1935 Alberta general election.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Calgary| title=Calgary results 1935 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation| accessdate=2009-05-17}}
After his defeat from provincial politics Farthing ran for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in the 1940 Canadian federal election in the electoral district of Calgary East under the National Government banner. He was defeated finishing a close third, in a race that ended in one of the most dramatic four way splits in Canadian History.{{cite web|title=Calgary East 1940/03/26|url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=6463|publisher=Parliament of Canada|accessdate=2009-05-23}}
Judicial career
Following his time as an MLA, Farthing was named King's Counsel on January 3, 1935, and partnered to form the firm "Farthing and Tavender". On February 1, 1958, he was appointed a Judge of the District Court of Southern Alberta, and on April 7, 1960, he was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Alberta. Farthing retired on July 18, 1967, and died in Calgary less than a year later on June 8, 1968, at the age of 75.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
- {{AlbertaMLAbio|ID=0192}}
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Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
Category:People from Woodstock, Ontario
Category:McGill University alumni
Category:Osgoode Hall Law School alumni
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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