There an indoctrination into the correct principles upon which the tory Anglican establishment was based was confirmed by his association with the sons of leading professional men in the Atlantic colonies who were being prepared to take their fathers’ places. Haliburton was educated at King’s Collegiate School in Windsor, N.S., and later at King’s College, Windsor, from which he graduated in 1815. Haliburton’s inherent toryism was given a strong anti-republican bias through the sufferings of his mother’s people, the Grants, during the American War of Independence, and by their tragic death at sea while en route to Saint John, N.B., to settle loyalist claims. Haliburton’s grandfather believed that he was descended from the Haliburtons of Newmains and Mertoun on the Scottish border – maternal ancestors of Sir Walter Scott – and although he could not prove it legally, the Nova Scotian Haliburtons nevertheless considered themselves to be gentry because they were of that stock. This faith was further strengthened by a consciousness of lineage. Their achievement within an essentially tory system reinforced the political faith of three generations of Haliburtons. The first North American Haliburton had been an obscure wig-maker, but Thomas Chandler’s grandfather, William Haliburton, who had migrated to Nova Scotia in 1761, and his father were both successful lawyers who in later life became judges. The ancestry and upbringing of Thomas Chandler Haliburton were the deepest and most enduring influences upon his political views and career.
1796 at Windsor, N.S., the son of William Hersey Otis Haliburton and Lucy Chandler Grant d. 27 Aug.
HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER, politician, judge, and author b.
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