Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald, (10 May 1810 – 8 February 1884) was a

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in the

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. Archibald was born in

Truro, Nova Scotia Truro (Mi'kmaq: ''Wagobagitik''; Scottish Gaelic: ''Truru'') is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Truro is the shire town of Colchester County and is located on the south side of the Salmon River floodplain, close to the river's mouth at ...

, the son of Samuel George William Archibald and Elizabeth Dickson."Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald"
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for Nova Scotia. Archibald studied law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia in early 1831. The following October, Archibald was appointed chief clerk and registrar of the

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, replacing his brother in that position. By 1833, Archibald was an acting assistant judge of the Newfoundland Supreme Court. At the same time, he took on the additional job of chief clerk of the Newfoundland General Assembly. Beginning in 1857, Archibald served as British consul to New York, a position he held for twenty-six years until his retirement on 1 January 1883. From 1871 he also undertook the additional responsibility of acting as British consul-general for New York,

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, and

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. Archibald married Catherine Elizabeth Richardson, on 10 September 1834 at Truro, Nova Scotia. Catherine bore him six children, but only one son, Edward. The last child was a daughter,

Edith Archibald Edith Jessie Archibald (7 April 1854 – 11 May 1936) was a Canadian suffragist and writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax. For her many ...

, who became a suffragist and writer. Archibald died from pneumonia in

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, Sussex''England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915'' volume 2b, page 188 and is buried in the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery.

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Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
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