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HALIFAX AND ITS ENVIRONS
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advanced toward the altar, but at sight of the steadfast figure which confronted them, withheld their arms. Dr. Inglis resigned from the rectorship and joined a migration of Loyalists to Nova Scotia, where he became minister of St. Paul's and Bishop of the province. His son was the third to be elected head of the diocese. His grandson was General Sir John Inglis who, born at Halifax in 1814, was in command of Lucknow in 1857 during the mutiny of the Sepoys.

In the transepts are tablets to Judges of the Supreme Court of the Province, among them Sir Breton Halliburton whose wife was a daughter of the house of Inglis. There is a memorial to the first Collector of Customs at Halifax who did service for fifty years. Lord Charles Montagu, second son of the Duke of Manchester, fell a sacrifice to Public Zeal through the inclemency of a severe winter in Nova Scotia and was given burial in this pantheon in 1784. There is a mural monument to Major General Ross, the commander who destroyed Washington in revenge for the burning of York.

This church, one of the very oldest of the Protestant faith in North America, has been dowered with rich gifts of windows, robes and altar vessels. Many of its adherents bear the proud names inscribed upon monument and heraldic device. St. Paul's is the most significant institution of storied Halifax.