John Halliburton

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John Halliburton
Halliburton's grave

John Halliburton (* 1740 in Scotland , † 1808 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) was a Scottish-born medic and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada .

John Halliburton was the son of a Scottish Presbyterian priest. He worked as a ship's doctor for the Royal Navy , but settled in Newport ( Rhode Island ) before the American Revolution , where he opened a prosperous medical practice and in 1767 Susanna (h) Brenton (1747-1818; the daughter of Admiral Jahleel Brenton ) got married. As a loyalist - when the American Revolutionary War was lost - he gave up his practice in Newport and went to Halifax, where the Naval Medical Department was subordinate to him in 1782 . He also opened his own practice in Halifax.

Halliburton was still a member of the North British Society in Halifax (now The Scots ) in 1782 , an association of people of Scottish descent, whose presidency he also took over in 1787. Also in 1787 he was appointed to the Council of Twelve , an advisory chamber to the governor of Nova Scotia. In 1797 Halliburton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was the father of Brenton Halliburton (1774-1860), who later became chief judge at the Nova Scotia Supreme Court . John Halliburton died in Halifax in 1808, his grave is on the Old Burying Ground there .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Halliburton, Dr. John Scotland d. 1808. In: hhennigar.ca. March 23, 2013, accessed April 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Person: John Halliburton (1) - Genealogy. In: werelate.org. February 16, 2013, accessed April 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Sir Brenton Halliburton (1774-1860). In: blupete.com. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
  4. ^ Nova Scotia Executive Council Fund - MemoryNS. In: memoryns.ca. Retrieved April 1, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 1.4 MB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); accessed on March 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Halliburton, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish-Canadian medic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 1808
Place of death Halifax , Nova Scotia