Hewitt Bostock

He was born in Walton Heath, Epsom, England and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge graduating with honours in mathematics.

Rather than begin a legal practice he toured North America, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan before settling in British Columbia in 1893.

Bostock broke with the Laurier Liberals over the Conscription Crisis of 1917, and became a Liberal-Unionist, campaigning in favour of the Union government of Sir Robert Borden during the 1917 election.

There is a Mount Hewitt Bostock (2183 m or 7162 ft)[3] named in his honour[4] in the northern end of the Canadian Cascades, about 20 kilometres northeast of the Fraser Canyon town of Boston Bar, which is in what had been the riding of Yale—Cariboo where his political career began (today in Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon).

His eldest daughter Marian Noel Sherman was a physician in India and a prominent humanist in western Canada.