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

Arthur Haliburton was born in

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

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, by Louisa Neville, who was the daughter of Captain Laurence Neville. His elder brother was the Canadian anthropologist and barrister Robert Grant Haliburton. Arthur Haliburton 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 was commissioned into the British Army as a civil commissary, as which he served in Turkey during the

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, and in Canada, and in London, before his appointment, in 1869, as Assistant Director of Supplies and Transports, at which he resigned his commission and formally entered the Civil Service.

Civil Service career

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

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Leo Schuster, 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 Lowndes Square, London, 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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