Jonathan Belcher (jurist)

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Jonathan Belcher

Portrait by John Singleton Copley
Governor of Nova Scotia
In office 1760–1763
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	Charles Lawrence
Succeeded by	Montague Wilmot
Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
In office 1754–1776
Succeeded by	Charles Morris
Personal details
Born	(1710-07-23)July 23, 1710 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	March 30, 1776(1776-03-30) (aged 65) Halifax, Nova Scotia
Relations	Jonathan Belcher, father
Religion	Church of England

Jonathan Belcher (July 23, 1710 – March 30, 1776) was a British-American lawyer, chief justice, and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the second son of Jonathan Belcher and Mary Partridge, Belcher entered Harvard College, where in 1728 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1731 he proceeded to Master of Arts, also at Harvard. In 1730, he entered the Middle Temple, London, to read law, and in 1734 was called to the English bar. In the mean time he had been admitted as a fellow-commoner to Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1733 he received another Master's degree in mathematics.^[1] He later received a third Master's degree from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

In 1754, Belcher was sent to Nova Scotia to become the first Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, and he also served on the Nova Scotia Council. On July 28th, 1755, he published a document which concluded that deportation of the Acadians was both authorized and required under the law.^[2] He died in office in 1776. From 1761 to 1763, he was also Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. He negotiated the peace that led to the Burying the Hatchet ceremony in Nova Scotia.

Legacy

namesake of Fort Belcher (built c.1760), after which Fort Belcher Road, Lower Onslow, Nova Scotia is named

References

↑ "Belcher, Jonathan (BLCR732J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ Bakan, Joel (2010). Canadian constitutional law. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-55239-332-1.

External links

Nova Scotia Historical Society. 1914, p. 25
"Jonathan Belcher (jurist)". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. Check date values in: |date= (help)

v t e Chief Justice of Nova Scotia

Belcher Morris Finucane Deschamps Pemberton Strange Blowers Halliburton Young McDonald Weatherbe Townshend Graham Harris Chisholm Ilsley Currie McKinnon MacKeigan Clarke Glube MacDonald

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

Post-Confederation (1867-present)	Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant

Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786-1867)	Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette LeMarchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams

Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784-1820)	Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie

Governors before Confederation (1710-1786)	Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr

Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.

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Persondata
Name	Belcher, Jonathan
Alternative names
Short description	American-born Nova Scotia judge
Date of birth	July 23, 1710
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
Date of death	March 30, 1776
Place of death	Halifax, Nova Scotia

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