Career
He represented Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1890 to 1898. He was born in Niagara, Upper Canada in 1826, the son of Richard Hiscott, a soldier in the British army. He served as reeve for Niagara Township and was warden for Lincoln County in 1884.
Hiscott was a major in the local militia.
He grew fruit on his farm near Virgil. He died on May 26, 1917 and is buried at Saint Mark"s Anglican Cemetery at Lincoln.