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CHANDLER, Edward Barron, Canadian jurist, born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1800; died in Fredericton, N. B., 6 February, 1880. He was a grandson of Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Connecticut, a well-known loyalist, who went to Nova Scotia in 1783 and thence to England to obtain compensation for losses sustained during the American revolution. He studied law and was admitted to the bar of New Brunswick in October, 1823, was judge of probates for Westmoreland County, N. B., from 1823 till 1862, a member of the executive council from 1844 till 1858, and from 1867 till 1869, when he resigned to take the office of intercolonial railway commissioner, he has been a delegate on various important missions to London, Washington, and elsewhere, and in July, 1878, was appointed lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, which office he held till his death.
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