The Clockmaker

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Excerpt from The Clockmaker: Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of SlickvilleThomas Chandlerfiahbwas born at Wind sor, Nova Scotia, in 1796, was educated at King's congge', and admitted to the bar in 1820. He eh. Tered political life shortly after, and was elected member of the House of Assembly. In 1829 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Com mon Pleas, and in 1840 was made Judge of the Supreme Court. He resigned in 1842, and went to England to reside, where, in 1859, he was elected member of Parliament for the Borough of Launces ton, and at the dissolution of Parliament in 1865 he declined reelection on the score Of infirm health. He died at Isleworth in July of the same year. His party politics were of the old Tory school, and he held rigidly by them, rsharing the common experi ence of colonial partisia 5, who, on returning to the mother country, are very apt to set a higher value on their party principles than those who have always remained at home.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.