HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER British writer, long a judge of Nova Scotia, was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. He was called to the bar in 182o, became a member of the house of assembly, and in 1828 was promoted to the bench as a chief-justice of the common pleas. In 1829 he published An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia. He is remem bered as the creator of Sam Slick in the series of sketches entitled The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slick ville (1837). A second series followed in 1838, and a third in 184o. The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England (1843-44), was the result of a visit there in 1841. In 184o he was promoted to be a judge of the supreme court; but within two years he resigned and re moved to England. He was M.P. for Launceston from 1859 to 1865.
A memoir of Haliburton, by F. Blake Crofton, appeared in 1889.