Simon Bradstreet Robie (1770 – January 3, 1858) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in

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. He represented Truro Township from 1799 to 1806 and Halifax County from 1806 to 1826 in the

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. Born in

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, he was the son of

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Thomas Robie and Mary Bradstreet, and went to Halifax with his parents at the beginning of the

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. He studied law with Jonathan Sterns and was called to the Nova Scotia bar in the early 1790s. In 1806, he married Elizabeth Creighton. He was named

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in 1815. He served as Speaker for the House of Assembly from 1817 to 1824. In 1824, he was named to Nova Scotia's

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. Robie, as a member of the Council, supported the creation of the

Pictou Academy Pictou Academy (PA), founded in 1815 by Dr. Thomas McCulloch, is a secondary school in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a grammar school; a liberal, nonsectarian degree-granting college; and then a secondary school. Picto ...

. In 1826, he was named master of the rolls, who presided over the Court of Chancery, serving until 1834. In 1838, when the Council's functions were separated, he became a member of the Executive Council and president of the

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. He resigned from the Executive Council in January 1848 and the Legislative Council later the same year. Robie died in Halifax in 1858. The home where Robie was born still stands at 1 Mechanic St, Marblehead, MA.

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in Halifax was named after him. There are also streets named after him in Truro and

Amherst, Nova Scotia Amherst ( ) is a town in northwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin (Canada), Cumberland Basin, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and south of the Northumberland Strait. The town sits on a height of land a ...

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* 1770 births 1858 deaths Canadian Anglicans Members of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia Members of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia People from Colchester County People from Marblehead, Massachusetts Speakers of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly Colony of Nova Scotia judges 18th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 19th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub

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