Background
He was born in Hamilton, Canada West and became a coroner, physician and surgeon.
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George Rennie
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Rennie attended schools at Hamilton then Toronto where he received his first medical degrees at Toronto"s Trinity Medical College.
Career
He proceeded to further studies in London where he received the Royal College of Physicians licentiate (Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac) diploma. He received his Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of London licence at Edinburgh. Rennie studied further at Paris and Vienna.
He became the medical director of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Company and surgeon-in-chief of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway.
He was also appointed Hamilton"s chief coroner. He was first elected to Parliament at the Hamilton East riding in the 1926 general election and re-elected there in the 1930 federal election.
During his term in the 17th Canadian Parliament, Rennie contracted a severe case of double pneumonia. He died at Hamilton General Hospital on 13 October 1930 after two weeks with this illness.
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Conservative Party of Canada
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Order of Street Michael and Street George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.