Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton (26 December 1832 – 21 April 1907) was a

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-born British civil servant. He was the first native Canadian to be raised to the

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Early life

Haliburton was born in

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, on 26 December 1832. He was the son of the Anglo-Canadian author and barrister, and British MP,

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, and Louisa Neville, who was the daughter of Captain Laurence Neville. He was a brother of Robert Grant Haliburton. He graduated from the

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, Nova Scotia, with a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL). He was called to the bar, in Nova Scotia, in 1855, but subsequently received a commission into the British Army. He served as a civil commissary for the British Army in Turkey, during the

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, in Canada, and in London, before his appointment, in 1869, as assistant director of supplies and transports, at which he resigned his commission in the army and formally entered the Civil Service.

Civil Service career

Haliburton was Director of Supplies and Transport at the War Office from 1878 to 1888, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War from 1888 to 1895 and Under-Secretary at the War Office from 1895 to 1897. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London in 1893, and served as a

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. He was appointed a Companion of the

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(CB) in 1880, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1885. In May 1891, Haliburton was made Assistant Under-Secretary for War, and from 1895 to 1897, he served as Permanent Under-Secretary for War. He was invested as a

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(GCB) in 1897. On 21 April 1898, Haliburton was raised to the peerage as Baron Haliburton, of Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia and Dominion of Canada. Haliburton was the first native Canadian to be raised to the

Personal life

Lord Haliburton married Mariana Emily, daughter of the

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, on 3 November 1877, but they had no children. His wife had been married to Sir William Clay, 2nd Baronet since 1855, until Clay's death in 1876. Haliburton and his wife lived at 57

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, England. Haliburton died on 21 April 1907 at Branksome Towers Hotel,

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, Hampshire. He is buried in

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, London. The barony became extinct on his death.

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