Education
University of Street Andrews.
University of Street Andrews.
Haliburton received his education at Street Salvator"s College, Street Andrews, obtaining a Master of Arts on 12 June 1652, and a Doctorate in Divinity in 1673. Between his two degrees, he was made minister of Coupar Angus in 1659, and was Archdeacon of Dunkeld by the summer of 1663. After obtaining his doctorate, he served as moderator of the Presbytery of Meigle from 1678 until he became Bishop of Brechin, receiving consecration as bishop on 13 June 1678.
The latter encompassed the roles of provost and minister of Brechin, but nevertheless George remained minister of Coupar Angus.
On 22 June 1682, Haliburton was selected to move to the larger diocese of Aberdeen, and was translated as Bishop of Aberdeen on 5 July 1682. Haliburton was formally deprived of his bishopric on 22 July 1689.
He then retired to his own residence at nearby Halton, and received a pension in the following year. He moved to Denhead in 1710.
He died at Halton on 29 September 1715.
Twenty days earlier he had attended the raising of the standard of the Old Pretender at Fetteresso, the act which initiated the First Jacobite Rising.
Haliburton became increasingly sympathetic towards Jacobitism and ordained clergy, working closely with re-established episcopalian bishops and archbishops, though the latter often did not inform him about the secret consecrations of new bishops which were taking place.