Richard Bulkeley (office-holder)

Richard Bulkeley (office-holder)

Richard Bulkeley, known as the "Father of Nova Scotia", was born on 26 December 1717 in Dublin, Ireland, as the second son of Sir Lawrence Bulkeley and Elizabeth Freke. He married on 18 July 1750 Mary Rous, daughter of John, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they had four sons; after her death, he married, on 26 July 1776, Mary Burgess at Halifax; and died there 7 December 1800.

He served in many capacities the crown and people of Nova Scotia and was governor from 1791 to 1792; Bulkeley was succeeded by Former New Hampshire Governor Sir John Wentworth.

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first = Phyllis R
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title = Richard Bulkeley
encyclopedia = Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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date = 1979
url = http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=1780
accessdate = 2008-10-05


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