NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865 NRA: Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865) MP Jurist DNB: Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865), politician and writer LBT ID: ThHalib1865 VIAF ID: 42632835 LOC ID: n50017878 | B/BAP: 1796-12-17 DIED: 1865-08-27 |
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Born in Nova Scotia, he was a judge in Canada before emigrating to England where he was
MP for Launceston (1859-65); as a comic writer he published Clockmaker,
or Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick (1837). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Chandler Haliburton: Thomas Chandler Haliburton to Samuel Rogers, 10 July 1843 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) |