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See also:HALIBURTON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:CHANDLER (1796-1865) , See also:British writer, See also:long a See also:judge of Nova See also:Scotia, was See also:born at See also:Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1796, and received his See also:education there, at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College. He was called to the See also:bar in 1820, and became a member of the See also:House of See also:Assembly. He distinguished himself as a See also:barrister, and in 1828 was promoted to the See also:bench as a See also:chief-See also:justice of the See also:common pleas. In 1829 he published An See also:Historical and Statistical See also:Account of Nova Scotia. But it is as a brilliant humourist and satirist that he is remembered, in connexion with his fictitious See also:character " Sam Slick." In 1835 he contributed anonymously to a See also:local See also:paper a See also:series of letters professedly depicting the peculiarities of the genuine See also:Yankee. These sketches, which abounded in See also:clever picturings of See also:national and individual character, See also:drawn with See also:great satirical See also:humour, were collected in 1837, and published under the See also:title of The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of See also:Samuel Slick of Slickville. A second series followed in 1838, and a third in 1840. The Attache, or Sam Slick in See also:England (1843:1844), was the result of a visit there in 1841. His other See also:works include: The Old Judge, or See also:Life in a See also:Colony (1843); The See also:Letter Bag of the Great Weslerri (1839); See also:Rule and See also:Misrule of the See also:English in See also:America (1851); Traits of See also:American Humour (1852), and Nature and Human Nature (1855).
Meanwhile he continued to secure popular esteem in his judicial capacity. In 1840 he was promoted to be a judge of the supreme See also:court; but within two years he resigned his seat on the bench, removed to England, and in 1859 entered See also:parliament as the representative of See also:Launceston, in the Conservative See also:interest. But the See also:tenure of his seat for Launceston was brought to an end by the See also:dissolution of the parliament in 1865, and he did not again offer himself to the See also:constituency. He died on the 27th of See also:August of the same See also:year, at See also:Gordon House, Isleworth, See also:Middlesex.
A memoir of Haliburton,by F. See also:Blake Crofton, appeared in 1889.
End of Article: HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER (1796-1865)
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