George Lynch-Staunton

George Lynch-Staunton (September 9, 1858 – March 19, 1940) was a lawyer and member of the Senate of Canada.

[1] He became a lawyer based in Hamilton, Ontario and served as chairman of the Transcontinental Railway Investigation Commission from 1911 to 1913.

He also was legal counsel to the government of Ontario in a number of cases.

He was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden in January 1917 and sat as a Conservative.

During the 1920s, he debated Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario chairman Sir Adam Beck across Ontario on the subject of the Commission's acquisition and operation of intercity "radial" streetcar service.