John Doull was a lawyer, judge and politician. He represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

The Nova Scotia Legislature, consisting of Her Majesty The Queen represented by the Lieutenant Governor and the House of Assembly, is the legislative branch of the provincial government of Nova Scotia, Canada...

 as a Conservative member from 1925 to 1933.

He was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait....

, the son of James Doull, the son of a Scottish

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 immigrant, and Christina McLellan. He was educated in New Glasgow and at Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...

, on the Board of Governors of which he was later to serve. He worked in his father's grocery business and then as a bookkeeper before returning to Dalhousie to study law. Doull was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1910 and went on to practice in Glace Bay

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia

Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton....

 and New Glasgow. From 1914 to 1925, he was solicitor for the town of Trenton

Trenton, Nova Scotia

Trenton is a town located in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.Trenton is situated on the east bank of the East River of Pictou, adjacent to and immediately north of the larger town of New Glasgow.- Economy :...

. Doull married Irene McGregor in 1916. He served in the province's Executive Council as minister without portfolio

Minister without Portfolio

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 from 1928 to 1931 and Attorney General from 1931 to 1933. He was a judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1961. Doull was also president of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He died in Halifax

City of Halifax

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. The philosopher James Doull

James Doull

James Alexander Doull was a Canadian philosopher and academic who was born and lived most of his life in Nova Scotia. His father was the politician, jurist, and historian John Doull. From the late 1940s until the mid 1980s he taught in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University in Halifax...

was his son.

Doull published the following historical books:

• Angus McGillivray, D.D. (1938)
• A History of the Bible Society in Nova Scotia, 1813-1963 (1963)
• Sketches of the Attorney Generals of Nova Scotia, 1750-1926 (1964)