What type of details about hugh guthrie can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: hugh guthrie , pc , kc -lrb- 13 august 1866 -- 3 november 1939 -rrb- was a canadian politician and cabinet minister in the governments of sir robert borden , arthur meighen and r. b. bennett . he was born in guelph , ontario , the son of donald guthrie , and studied there and at osgoode hall , becoming a barrister . guthrie was named a king 's counsel in 1902 . he married maude henrietta , the daughter of guelph businessman thomas h. scarff . guthrie was first elected to the house of commons as a liberal in 1900 from the riding of wellington south . he sat in wilfrid laurier 's caucus for 17 years , but crossed the floor to join the unionist government of robert borden as a result of the conscription crisis of 1917 . the former liberal backbencher became a leading light in his new party , serving as solicitor general under borden . with the end of world war i , most liberal-unionists either rejoined the liberal party or joined the new progressive party . guthrie , however , stayed with the conservatives , becoming minister of defence and running for re-election as a conservative in the 1921 election . after the election , he joined the tories on the opposition benches . as a result of the 1926 '' king-byng affair '' , meighen 's conservatives formed a government in which guthrie served as minister of justice and minister of national defence . this second stint in cabinet ended with the defeat of the meighen government in that fall 's election . meighen lost his seat , and guthrie served as leader of the opposition and interim leader of the conservative party for a full year . guthie sought the party leadership at the leadership convention that the party held in 1927 , but was defeated by r.b. bennett . john george diefenbaker was a delegate to that convention and he wrote in his memoirs that guthrie 's candidacy was hurt when the former liberal absent-mindedly declared in his speech to delegates that the tory meeting was the '' greatest liberal convention in history '' . bennett led the tories to victory in...
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