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About John Doull
- John Doull (November 1, 1878 – 1969) was a lawyer, judge and politician.
- He represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Conservative member from 1925 to 1933. He was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of James Doull (of the North British Society and the son of a Scottish immigrant, and Christina McLellan.
- He was educated in New Glasgow and at Dalhousie University, on the Board of Governors of which he was later to serve.
- He worked in his father's grocery business and then as a bookkeeper before returning to Dalhousie to study law.
- Doull was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1910 and went on to practice in Glace Bay and New Glasgow.
- From 1914 to 1925, he was solicitor for the town of Trenton.
- Doull married Irene McGregor in 1916.
- He served in the province's Executive Council as minister without portfolio from 1928 to 1931 and Attorney General from 1931 to 1933.
- He was a judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1961.
- Doull was also president of the Nova Scotia Historical Society.
- He died in Halifax.
- The naval engineer John Doull, the philosopher James Doull, and the musician Mary Doull, a scholar in French, were his children. Doull published the following historical books: Angus McGillivray, D.D.
- (1938) A History of the Bible Society in Nova Scotia, 1813-1963 (1963) Sketches of the Attorney Generals of Nova Scotia, 1750-1926 (1964)
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