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S.H.S. Hughes [textual record, graphic material]

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Series

Date:

1923-1950, 1966.

Reference:

MG27-IID23

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

191681

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Sir Sam Hughes and Family collection

S.H.S. Hughes
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Date(s):

1923-1950, 1966.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.32 m of textual records.
? photographs.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of the textual and photographic records documenting the education of Samuel H.S. Hughes (through school class lists, grades and correspondence), as well as his later study of his grandfather, Sir Sam Hughes.

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Hughes, S.H.S., 1913-2002

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Hughes, S.H.S., 1913-2002 : Samuel Harvey Shirecliffe Hughes (1913-2000) was born in Victoria, BC, the only child of Garnet Burk Hughes and Elizabeth Irene Bayliss Newling Hughes. Educated in England and Canada, he received degrees from the University of Toronto (B.A., 1934) and Oxford University (B.A., 1936 and M.A., 1951). From 1936 to 1939, he served as a History Master at Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario. In July 1940, he married Helen Beatrice Spencer, with whom he had two children, Lynn Spencer Hughes and Samuel Garnet Hughes. He served with the Army during the Second World War, going overseas with the Governor General's Horse Guards as a Lieutenant in 1941. In 1942, he transferred to the Canadian Intelligence Corps, serving with the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in Italy during 1943 and 1944. He was later attached to the Historical Section of the General Staff, serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel on retirement in 1946.

Postwar, he read law with L.B. Spencer of Welland, Ontario, before being called to the Bar of Ontario in 1947. An Alderman for Welland, 1953 to 1955, he later served as Chairman of the Ontario Highway Transport Board, 1955 to 1958, and as Chairman of the Canadian Civil Service Commission, 1959 to 1962. He was made a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario, serving from 1958 to 1959 and 1962 to 1988, during which time he conducted several Royal Commissions for the Ontario Government. Following his retirement from the Ontario bench, he was appointed to conduct the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Response of the Newfoundland Criminal Justice System to Complaints (Mount Cashell). On the 26th April 2002, Samuel Harvey Shirecliffe Hughes died at the age of 89.

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Private

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MG27-IID23
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Textual records

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Volume [MG27 II D 23] 15--16

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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