John Robert Boyle, Date of Birth, Date of Death

John Robert Boyle

Legislator, cabinet minister, and judge in Alberta, Canada

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1871

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1936

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

John Robert Boyle, (February 1, 1870 or February 3, 1871 – February 15, 1936) was a Canadian politician and jurist who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, a cabinet minister in the Government of Alberta, and a judge on the Supreme Court of Alberta.
Born in Ontario, he came west and eventually settled in Edmonton, where he practiced law.
After a brief stint on Edmonton's first city council, he was elected in Alberta's inaugural provincial election as a Liberal.
During the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he was a leader of the Liberal insurgency that forced Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford from office. Though initially left out of cabinet by Arthur Sifton, Rutherford's successor, Boyle was named Minister of Education in 1912.
He served in this capacity until 1918, during which time he alienated many non-English speakers by insisting on a unilingual English school system.
In 1918 he was made Attorney-General.
He retained his seat in the legislature after the Liberal defeat in the 1921 election and briefly served as leader of the Liberal opposition, but was appointed to the bench in 1924.
He was still a judge when he died in 1936.