Career
He represented the City of Ottawa in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1879 to 1886 as a Conservative member. He was born in Ballyrusheen, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1833, the son of George Baskerville, a farmer, and came to Bytown with his family in 1847. Baskerville worked at farming and the timber trade, before becoming a clerk with the Bytown and Prescott Railway in 1854.
In 1862, he became a merchant, selling groceries.
