HALL I BURTON

Sir Brenton . b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 Dec. 1773; capt. 7 fusiliers; admitted barrister 1803, bencher 1807, mem. of council 1816; judge of supreme court of Nova Scotia 1811, chief justice 1835; knighted by patent 13 April 1859; author of Observations on the importance of the North American colonies to Great Britain 1825, 2 ed. 1831; Reflections on pa ing events, a poem 1856, and letters in the Halifax Recorder on the American war, signed Anglo-American 1813. d. near Halifax 16 July 1860. Memoir of Sir B. Hall i burton, By Rev. G. W. Hill (1864); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Can a dens is (1867) 173.