About Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (17 December 1796 – 27 August 1865) was a Nova Scotia-born judge, author, novelist, and Conservative MP in Britain. He was the first internationally bestselling fiction author from what is now Canada. He was a cousin of the pre-eminent London property developer James Burton, whose sons James Burton Junior, the Egyptologist, and Decimus Burton, the architect, hosted him in London. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton, who was the first native Canadian to be raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton, who founded the Canada First organization that contended that English Canadians were the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that French Canadians were a "bar to progress". Haliburton's fame came from his writings on history, politics, farm improvement, and from his The Clockmaker serial, which first appeared in the Novascotian and was published throughout the British Empire, that described the. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton.
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