T. C. Haliburton

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865), born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son and grandson of lawyers, studied at King's College in his hometown and was called to the bar in 1820. A lawyer in Annapolis Royal, he represented that county in the provincial assembly from 1826 to 1829, then became a judge of the inferior court of common pleas in 1829 and of the colony's Supreme Court in 1841. A Tory opposed to responsible government, he came to letters through local history. He left for England in 1856 and sat in the Commons as member for Launceston from 1859 to 1865.

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