Leeming Carr
Leeming Carr was a physician and political figure in Ontario. He represented Hamilton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1928 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Glanford township and was educated in Hamilton and at the University of Toronto, the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. Carr served as a member of the Wentworth County Council from 1898 to 1900 and later was a member of the Hamilton Board of Education. He was a minister without portfolio in the provincial cabinet from 1923 to 1928. Carr resigned his seat in the assembly in 1928 after he was named sheriff for Wentworth County.
His son L. Anderson Carr Jr was also a doctor and played with the Hamilton Alerts and won the 1912 Grey Cup.
