10 Facts About Hugh Farthing

Hugh Cragg Farthing was a Canadian provincial level politician, lawyer and judge from Alberta.

Hugh Farthing served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 until 1935 representing the electoral district of Calgary.

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.

Hugh Farthing was educated at Kingston Collegiate Institute and McGill University completing his Bachelor of Arts in 1914, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Society, and later Osgoode Hall Law School to complete a Bachelor of Laws in 1919.

Hugh Farthing later moved to Calgary and was admitted to the Alberta bar on June 11,1923.

Hugh Farthing ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the Calgary electoral district for the 1930 Alberta general election.

Hugh Farthing won his seat on the 7th vote count taking third place overall.

Hugh Farthing was defeated running for a second term in office in the 1935 Alberta general election.

Hugh Farthing was defeated finishing a close third, in a race that ended in one of the most dramatic four way splits in Canadian History.

Hugh Farthing retired on July 18,1967, and died in Calgary less than a year later on June 8,1968, at the age of 75.