Famous People with Name Sutherland

Douglas William "Doug" Sutherland            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Douglas William "Doug" Sutherland: is an Australian businessman, former Lord Mayor of Sydney, and founding member of 'Australians for Constitutional Monarchy' and who was a delegate at the 1998 Constitutional Convention.

Robert Franklin Sutherland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Franklin Sutherland: was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1905 to 1909, noted for his fine speaking ability and strong temperament.Sutherland was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Essex North in the 1900 election. He was re-elected in the 1904 and 1908 elections.

William Henry Sutherland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Henry Sutherland: was a physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Revelstoke from 1916 to 1933 and Columbia-Revelstoke from 1933 to 1937 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal. He was mayor of Revelstoke from 1912 to 1916. Sutherland served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works from 1922 to 1928. He later served as house surgeon for the Hotel Vancouver.

Donald Sutherland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Sutherland: was a Canadian politician. He was defeated but was elected in the 1911 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1917, 1921, and 1925. He was defeated in 1926, 1930, and in a 1934 by-election. In 1926, he was a Minister without Portfolio in the short lived cabinet of Arthur Meighen. In 1935, he was called to the Canadian Senate representing the senatorial division of Oxford, Ontario. He died while in office in 1949.

Donald Matheson Sutherland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Matheson Sutherland: was a Canadian physician and politician. By 1921, he had changed allegiances to the Conservatives and, in the 1925 general election, he won the seat of Oxford North and became a Tory Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. He was defeated, however, in the 1926 general election which returned the Liberals under William Lyon Mackenzie King to power following the King-Byng Affair. Sutherland returned to Parliament as a result of the 1930 general election which was won by the Conservatives under R.B. Bennett. Bennett appointed Matheson to Cabinet as Minister of National Defence. In 1934, with the country reeling from the Great Depression, Bennett, as prime minister, instituted his own version of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. He appointed Sutherland as Minister of Pensions and National Health. Bennett's reforms were insufficient to appease an unruly electorate, however, and the Bennett government was defeated in the 1935 general election. Sutherland lost his own parliamentary seat.