Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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, KCMG (May 8, 1818 – June 25, 1896) was a Canadian

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 politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. Tilley was descended from United Empire Loyalists

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 on both sides of his family. As a pharmacist

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, he went into business as a druggist.
Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick

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, Tilley was the son of storekeeper Thomas Morgan Tilley and Susan Ann Peters. On May 6, 1843 he married Julia Ann Hanford in Saint John, New Brunswick

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; they had eight children.