Philip Carteret Hill

Philip Carteret Hill
3rd Premier of Nova Scotia
In office
May 11, 1875 – October 15, 1878
MonarchVictoria
Lieutenant GovernorAdams George Archibald
Preceded byWilliam Annand
Succeeded bySimon Hugh Holmes
17th Mayor of Halifax
In office
1861–1864
Preceded bySamuel Richard Caldwell
Succeeded byMatthew Henry Richey
MLA for Halifax County
In office
November 17, 1870 – May 16, 1871
Preceded byJeremiah Northup
Succeeded byWilliam Garvie
John Taylor
John Flinn
Donald Archibald
In office
December 17, 1874 – September 17, 1878
Preceded byWilliam Garvie
John Taylor
John Flinn
Donald Archibald
Succeeded byCharles J. MacDonald
John Fitzwilliam Stairs
William D. Harrington
John Pugh
Personal details
Born(1821-08-13)August 13, 1821
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedSeptember 15, 1894(1894-09-15) (aged 73)
Tunbridge Wells, England, UK
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
Margaretta Rhoda Collins
(m. 1850)
Alma materKing's College
OccupationLawyer and writer
ProfessionPolitician
CabinetProvincial Secretary (1867) (1874–1878)

Philip Carteret Hill (August 13, 1821 – September 15, 1894) was a Nova Scotia politician. Born in Halifax, he was mayor of Halifax from 1861 to 1864 before entering provincial politics as a supporter of Canadian confederation in 1867 serving as Provincial Secretary in the Conservative cabinet of Hiram Blanchard but lost his seat in the fall 1867 election that defeated the government.

Hill returned to the legislature in 1870 by winning a by-election as a Liberal-Conservative. He again lost his seat in 1871 but returned in 1874 and served in the Liberal government of William Annand as provincial secretary. Feelings against confederation had abated and Hill was well placed to put forward a compromise position that enabled him to succeed Annand as premier in 1875. However, Hill took over the Liberal government at a time that the federal Liberals were in power under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and becoming increasingly unpopular in Nova Scotia. That, and the failure of the Annand and Hill governments to make progress on railway construction, led to the Liberal's defeat in the 1878 election after which Hill retired from politics. He moved to England in 1882 and published a series theological pamphlets. He died in Tunbridge Wells.