Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton.
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- Windsor
- Educated at
- University of King's College
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- 🏆 Person of National Historic Significance
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1796
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Birth1865
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