Background
He was born in Ascot Township, Sherbrooke County in Lower Canada in 1815, the son of Joseph Hazard Terrill, commissioner of small causes for Sherbrooke.
He was born in Ascot Township, Sherbrooke County in Lower Canada in 1815, the son of Joseph Hazard Terrill, commissioner of small causes for Sherbrooke.
He studied law in the office of his brother, Hazard Bailey, and was admitted to the bar in 1840.
He was later appointed Queen"s Counsel. He served in a cavalry troop during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837. He was re-elected to the same seat in the general elections held in July 1854 and December 1857.
In 1856, he became provincial secretary for Canada East.
He resigned this office in 1857. He retired from politics in 1861 due to ill health.
He suffered an attack of paralysis and died in Stanstead in 1879.