Eric Allaby

Kenneth Eric Allaby (born August 7, 1943) is a former New Brunswick politician.

Allaby was born in India, while his father Rev. Perry Allaby, and mother Edith MacLaughlin were Baptist missionaries.

Provincial politics

He first ran for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as the Liberal candidate for the Charlotte-Fundy riding in the 1982 election but was defeated. He won the seat in the 1987 election in which Frank McKenna's Liberal party captured every seat. He was re-elected in Charlotte-Fundy in 1991 and won the newly created Fundy Isles constituency in 1995, 1999 and 2003.

In 2007, he was named to the board of directors for the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission.

Marine history

Allaby has a Bachelor of Science degree from Acadia University, where he studied physics.

Allaby served as curator of the Grand Manan Museum, where he succeeded his mentor Lincoln Keith Ingersoll. He has written several books about shipwrecks and marine history.