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Richard John Uniacke was born in 1753 at Castletown, County
Cork, Ireland, where his family were members of the landed gentry.
He arrived in Nova Scotia by way of Philadelphia in 1774 (the
year of the First Continental Congress), but returned to Ireland
in 1777 and completed his law studies before finally settling
in Halifax in 1781. Richard John Uniacke had twelve children,
eleven with his first wife and the twelfth by a second marriage.
He died in his bed at Mount Uniacke in 1830 after a long career
as a lawyer and politician in colonial Nova Scotia, including
serving as the province's Attorney General from 1797 until his
death.
Read more about Richard John Uniacke in The Old Attorney General - A Biography of Richard John Uniacke 1753-1830, Halifax, Nimbus Publishing [1980] by Brian Cuthbertson; also "The Old Attorney General - His Family and His Estate." In Uniacke Estate Seminar, 1989. Sheila Stevenson editor, Curatorial Report No. 70, Nova Scotia Museum: Halifax, 1991. Also check out the readable account of Nova Scotia during the years 1816-1820 by the Earl of Dalhousie, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in The Dalhousie Journals. Edited by Marjorie Whitelaw, Oberon Press: Ottawa, 1981.
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