Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Thomas Chandler Haliburton studied at University of King's College. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Positions recorded include member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom. Distinctions recorded are Person of National Historic Significance.

• Name — Thomas Chandler Haliburton • Order1 — Member of Parliament for Launceston • Term Start1 — 1859 • Term End1 — 1865 • Predecessor1 — Josceline Percy • Successor1 — Alexander Henry Campbell • Born — 17 December 1796 • Birthplace — Windsor, Nova Scotia • Place of death — Isleworth, England • Party — Conservative Party (UK) • Father — William Hersey Otis Haliburton • Relatives — *James Burton (property developer) (cousin) • James Burton (Egyptologist) (cousin) • Henry Burton (physician) (cousin) • Decimus Burton (cousin) • Children — *Lord Haliburton • Robert Grant Haliburton *Susanna Haliburton Weldon

Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born on 17 December 1796, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, to William Hersey Otis Haliburton, a judge and politician, and Lucy Chandler Grant. His mother died when he was a small child. When Thomas was seven, his father married Susanna Davis, the daughter of Michael Francklin who had been Nova Scotia's Lieutenant Governor.[2] He attended University of King's College in Windsor, from which he graduated in 1815 to become a lawyer who practiced at Annapolis Royal. Between 1826 and 1829, Haliburton represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Haliburton's fame came from his writings on history, politics, farming, and from his The Clockmaker serialised novel,which first appeared in the Novascotian and was published throughout the British Empire, that described the humorous adventures of Sam Slick.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton resided in England from 1837,[3] where he was hosted and entertained in London by his cousins Decimus Burton, Jane Burton, James Burton Junior the Egyptologist, Septimus Burton the solicitor, Octavia Burton, and Jessy Burton.[4] Thomas asked James Burton Junior, to check the proofs of his work Letter Bag of the Great Western, with which Burton was unimpressed, in 1839, and those of the third series of The Clockmaker, in 1840.[5] The pair travelled together to Scotland to investigate their in-common ancestry, and intended to tour Canada and the United States of America together. Thomas Chandler Haliburton's daughter, Susannah, was impressed by James Burton Junior: she wrote, in 1839, "Mr James I admire very much. He is one of the most well-bred persons I saw &... decidedly the flower of the flock".

• Illustration — Isleworth, All Saints churchyard In 1856, Thomas Chandler Haliburton retired from law and moved to England. In the same year, he married Sarah Harriet Owen Williams. In 1859, Haliburton was elected the Member of Parliament for Launceston, Cornwall as a member of the Conservative minority. He did not stand for re-election in 1865. Haliburton received an honorary degree from Oxford for his services to literature. He continued writing until his death on August 27, 1865, at his home in Isleworth,[6] where he is buried in its All Saints' Churchyard.

• Illustration — Mrs Louisa Haliburton (née Neville) first wife of Thomas Chandler Haliburton • Illustration — Daughter Amelia Gilpin by William Notman Thomas Chandler Haliburton married Louisa Neville, who was the daughter of Captain Laurence Neville of the Eighth Light Dragoons, with whom he returned to Nova Scotia. Louisa's history before their marriage is related in the "Haliburton Chaplet," which was edited by their son Robert Grant Haliburton and published in Toronto in 1899. The couple had three sons and five daughters: • Susannah Lucy Anne (later Weldon) (1817–1899), who was a significant ceramic collector. • Thomas Jr., who became ill with an "original defect of mind" and died in an asylum in Massachusetts at the age of 26 years.[7] • Augusta F., who married an ironmonger. • Emma, who married an Anglican clergyman of the surname Bainbridge Smith. • Amelia (25 July 1829 – 14 January 1902), who was a landscape artist who married The Rev. Edwin Gilpin, Dean of Nova Scotia, in 1849, by whom she had four sons and one daughter[8] including the author Edwin Gilpin (1850–1907). • Robert Grant (1831–1901), who was a lawyer and anthropologist who founded the Canada First organization that contended that English Canadians were the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that French Canadians were a "bar to progress". • Laura Charlotte, who was an artist who married William Cunard, who was the son of the shipping magnate Sir Samuel Cunard, at Windsor, Nova Scotia, on 30 December 1851, by whom she had three sons and one daughter. She exhibited her pictures at the Royal Academy and at the Gallery of British Artists.[9] • Arthur (1832–1907), who was a British civil servant who was the first native Canadian to be raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom, as 1st Baron Haliburton GCB.

• A General Description of Nova Scotia (1823) • An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia (1829) • The Clockmaker (1836) • The Clockmaker (2nd Series; 1838) • The Bubbles of Canada (1839) • A Reply to the Report of the Earl of Durham (1839) • The Letter-Bag of the Great Western (1840) • The Clockmaker (3rd Series) (1840) • The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England (1843) • The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England (2nd Series; 1844) • The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony (1849) • The English in America (1851) • Rule and Misrule in English America (1851) volume I and volume II • Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or, What He Said, Did, or Invented (1853)[15] • The Americans at Home; or, Byways, Backwoods, and Prairies (1855) • Nature and Human Nature (1855) • The Season-Ticket* (1860) • Maxims of an Old Stager (using a pseudonym)

His recorded language was English. He was the child of William Hersey Otis Haliburton. He married Louisa Neville. 4 children are recorded: Robert Grant Haliburton, Laura Charlotte Haliburton Cunard, Arthur Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton and Amelia Gilpin.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation politician.