Arthur Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton

He was the first native Canadian to be raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom Arthur Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, on 26 December 1832.

His elder brother was the Canadian anthropologist and barrister Robert Grant Haliburton.

Arthur Haliburton graduated from the University of King's College, 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 Crimean War, 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.

Lord Haliburton married Mariana Emily, who was the daughter of the merchant banker Leo Schuster, on 3 November 1877, but they had no children.