George Lynch-Staunton

Who was George Lynch-Staunton?

George Lynch-Staunton was a lawyer and member of the Canadian Senate.

Lynch-Staunton was born in Southampton, Canada West and was educated at St. Mary's College in Montreal as well as Upper Canada College in Toronto. He became a lawyer based in Hamilton, Ontario and served as chairman of the Transcontinental Railway Investigation Commission from 1911 to 1913. He also was legal counsel to the government of Ontario in a number of cases. He was called to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden in January 1917 and sat as a Conservative. During the 1920s he debated Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario chairman Sir Adam Beck across Ontario on the subject of the Commission's acquisition and operation of intercity "radial" streetcar service.