Samuel Leonard Tilley
Sir
Samuel Leonard Tilley (
1818-
1896) was a
Canadian politician. First elected to the
New Brunswick Assembly as a
Liberal in
1850, he attended both the
Charlottetown an
Quebec City Conferences as a supporter of
Canadian Confederation. He served in the
Macdonald Cabinet as Minister of Customs and
Minister of Finance, and was
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick from
1878 to
1893.