Robert Allan Pyne was an Ontario

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 physician and political figure. He represented Toronto East

Toronto East

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 and then Toronto Northeast in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 as a Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

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 member from 1898 to 1918.

He was born in Newmarket

Newmarket, Ontario

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, Canada West, the son of Doctor Thomas Pyne. He studied at the University of Toronto

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 and Queen's University

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. Pyne served as secretary and treasurer for the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. He married Mary Isobel Macqueen. He practiced medicine in Toronto

Toronto

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 and also served on the Toronto school board and Board of Health. He served as assistant surgeon in the local militia. Pyne was Minister of Education

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 from 1905 to 1918. He resigned his seat in 1918 and was named clerk for York County

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. Pyne was also a governor for the University of Toronto. He was put in charge of establishing a military hospital in England

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, at which time he was made a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Army.