Beamish Murdoch (August 1, 1800 – February 9, 1876) was a lawyer, historian, and political figure in
Nova Scotia
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. He represented Halifax township in the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly
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from 1826 to 1830.
He was born in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Andrew Murdoch and Elizabeth Beamish. His family had come to Nova Scotia from the North of Ireland. His grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, Rev. James Murdoch served several parishes in the Province for 23 years. Murdoch was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1822. In 1824 he was elected vice-president of the Charitable Irish Society in Halifax. He also contributed articles to the ''Acadian Recorder'' and the ''Acadian Magazine or Literary Mirror''. Murdoch was defeated by
Stephen Wastie Deblois when he ran for reelection in 1830; he was an unsuccessful candidate again in 1836 and 1840. He served as president of the Halifax Temperance Society. In 1841, Murdoch became clerk for the Central Board of Education and, in 1852, was named record for the city of Halifax. Between 1865 and 1867, he published ''A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie''. He died in
Lunenburg at the age of 75. He is buried with a gravestone at the
Hillcrest Cemetery (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia).
Nova Scotia Archives
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1800 births
1876 deaths
19th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
Historians of Atlantic Canada
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia