About Robert Hockin
Lived 1846 – 1925 (aged 78–79). Robert Hockin was a Canadian politician.
Robert Hockin (1846 – May 1, 1925) was a Canadian politician in Nova Scotia. He represented Pictou County, Nova Scotia in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1882 to 1886 as a Liberal-Conservative member.
He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of Daniel Hockin and Elizabeth Milnes, and educated at the Pictou Academy. In 1873, he married Jean, the daughter of Andrew McKinlay, former mayor of Halifax. Hockin served as a member of Pictou city council. After retiring from politics, he was a fisheries inspector. Hockin died in Pictou.
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Robert Hockin died on 1 May 1925.
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