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Samuel L. Tilley

The Honourable
Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
KCMG PC
Samuel Leonard Tilley 1864.jpg
4th & 7th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
In office
11 November 1885 – 21 September 1893
Monarch Victoria
Premier Andrew George Blair
Preceded by Robert Duncan Wilmot
Succeeded by John Boyd
In office
15 November 1873 – 11 July 1878
Monarch Victoria
Premier George Edwin King
John James Fraser
Preceded by Lemuel Allan Wilmot
Succeeded by Edward Barron Chandler
Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick
In office
19 March 1861 – 21 September 1865
Monarch Victoria
Governor John Manners-Sutton
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
Preceded by Charles Fisher
Succeeded by Albert James Smith
Personal details
Born 8 May 1818
Gagetown, New Brunswick
Died 25 June 1896(1896-06-25) (aged 78)
Saint John, New Brunswick
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Julia Hanford
(1843–1862, her death)
Alice Chipman
(1867–1896, his death)
Religion Church of England

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley KCMG CB PC (May 8, 1818 – June 25, 1896) was a Canadian politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. Tilley was descended from United Empire Loyalists on both sides of his family. As a pharmacist, he went into business as a druggist.

Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick, Tilley was the son of storekeeper Thomas Morgan Tilley and Susan Ann Peters. On May 16, 1843 he married Julia Ann Hanford in Saint John, New Brunswick; they had eight children. Hanford died in 1862, leaving Tilley a widower. On October 22, 1867, he married Alice Starr Chipman in St. Stephen, New Brunswick; they had two children, including future New Brunswick premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley. Samuel Leonard Tilley died in 1896 on June 25.

Samuel Leonard Tilley entered politics as an activist in the temperance movement. As a result of the 1848 recession, caused in part by Britain's economic policies, he became an advocate for responsible government. Tilley later joined the New Brunswick Colonial Association, which advocated for the colony's own control over its public expenses, the establishment of a public school system, government control of public works, and "honest government" in general.


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