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'''Timothy Lee Terrill''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|QC}} (March 12, 1815 – August 26, 1879) was a lawyer, farmer and political figure in [[Canada East]].

He was born in Ascot Township, [[Sherbrooke County, Quebec|Sherbrooke County]] in [[Lower Canada]] in 1815, the son of Joseph Hazard Terrill, commissioner of small causes for [[Sherbrooke]]. He studied law in the office of his brother, [[Hazard Bailey Terrill|Hazard Bailey]], and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was later appointed [[Queen's Counsel]]. He served in a [[cavalry]] troop during the [[Lower Canada Rebellion]] of 1837. When his brother Hazard Bailey died in 1852, he ran for his seat in the [[Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada|Legislative Assembly]] representing [[Stanstead (federal electoral district)|Stanstead]] in November 1852 and was elected by acclamation. He was re-elected to the same seat in the general elections held in July 1854 and December 1857. In 1856, he became provincial secretary for Canada East; he resigned this office in 1857. He retired from politics in 1861 due to ill health.

He suffered an attack of paralysis and died in [[Stanstead, Quebec|Stanstead]] in 1879.

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* {{QuebecMNAbio|terrill-timothy-lee-5501}}
*{{Cite DCB|5289}}

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