Belcher Jonathan 1711-1776 Second Son Of Governor Belcher Of
Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, and in
England; called to the English bar. Appointed chief-justice of Nova
Scotia, 1754. President of the Council of Nova Scotia and administrator
of the government, 1760. Chiefly instrumental in securing for Nova
Scotia a representative Assembly. =Bib.=: Campbell, History of Nova
Scotia.