George Septimus Rennie (23 July 1866 – 13 October 1930) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Hamilton, Canada West and became a coroner, physician and surgeon.

Rennie attended schools at Hamilton then Toronto where he received his first medical degrees at Toronto's Trinity Medical College. He proceeded to further studies in London where he received the Royal College of Physicians licentiate (LRCP) diploma. He received his LRCS licence at Edinburgh. Rennie studied further at Paris and Vienna.

George Rennie (Canadian politician)

He served in the military from 1894 through World War I in a variety of postings, attaining the rank of colonel in 1915. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1918 New Year Honours for his work with the Army Medical Corps.

George Rennie (Canadian politician)

He became the medical director of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Company and surgeon-in-chief of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway. He was also appointed Hamilton's chief coroner.

George Rennie (Canadian politician)

He was first elected to Parliament at the Hamilton East riding in the 1926 general election and re-elected there in the 1930 federal election.

During his term in the 17th Canadian Parliament, Rennie contracted a severe case of double pneumonia. He died at Hamilton General Hospital on 13 October 1930 after two weeks with this illness.

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1866 births

1930 deaths

Canadian Expeditionary Force officers

Canadian military doctors

Deaths from pneumonia in Ontario

Trinity College (Canada) alumni

Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs

Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario

Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario

Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George

Canadian coroners

Canadian surgeons