Susanna Haliburton Weldon

Susanna Lucy Anne Weldon (née Haliburton) (1817–1899) was a Canadian artist and ceramics collector.

She was the eldest child of the judge and author Thomas Chandler Haliburton.[1][2] She married John Wesley Weldon in 1848.[1] Their only child, a son who was named Haliburton, was born in 1849, and trained as a barrister, but died in 1873.[1]

She and her father resided in England from 1837, where they were hosted and entertained in London by their cousins Decimus Burton and James Burton Junior the Egyptologist.[3] Susanna was impressed by James Burton Junior: of whom she wrote, in 1839, "Mr James I admire very much. He is one of the most well-bred persons I saw &... decidedly the flower of the flock".[3]

Her collection of English and Chinese ceramics is "probably the oldest formed in Canada" and is now owned by the University of King's College in Nova Scotia,[1] at which a scholarship is named after her.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Elwood, Marie (1990). "Haliburton, Susanna (Weldon)". Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
  2. ↑ Cogswell, Fred. "Haliburton, Thomas Chandler". Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
  3. 1 2 Davies, Richard A. (2005). Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. University of Toronto Press. pp. 71–73.
  4. ↑ Entrance Scholarships
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