Haliburton, Arthur Lawrence , 1st Baron Haliburton

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    • Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton GCB DL JP (26 December 1832 – 21 April 1907) was a Nova Scotia-born British civil servant. He was the first native Canadian to be raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
    • Arthur Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, on 26 December 1832. He was a son of the Canadian author and British MP Thomas Chandler Haliburton, by Louisa Neville, who was the daughter of Captain Laurence Neville. His elder brother was the Canada First founder Robert Grant Haliburton.
    • Arthur Haliburton graduated from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia, with a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL). He was called to the bar, in Nova Scotia, in 1855, but was commissioned into the British Army as a civil commissary, as which he served in Turkey during the Crimean War, and in Canada, and in London, before his appointment, in 1869, as Assistant Director of Supplies and Transports, at which he resigned his commission and formally entered the Civil Service.
    • Haliburton was Director of Supplies and Transport at the War Office from 1878 to 1888; and Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War from 1888 to 1895; and Under-Secretary at the War Office from 1895 to 1897.
    • He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1880, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1885. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London in 1893, and as a Justice of the Peace. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath(GCB) in 1897. On 21 April 1898, Haliburton was raised to the peerage as Baron Haliburton, of Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia and Dominion of Canada. Haliburton was the first native Canadian to be raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
  • Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=3275
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