deaths
August 27, 1865
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (born 1796)

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton.