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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Arm^ — Az. a cherron hetivpen three lions' heach erased arg. Crest — A lion rampant arij. Motto — Deo tiiljuvante fortunn sequatur. iJMi'rfe/ice— Burfoi'J, A^liburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. 731 iHorcton, rniiK iio.v. I!ki;kkij:v isasil iroRETON, of Wamtuh. Miuy. JL borough, Queonslaud, b. ISth .hily, 18.'^ 1-, m. ISlJ2, Emily I'iloaiior, dauglitci' of John Kknt, coiimissLoiicr of Crowu laud.s, Queensland, and lias had issue, I. Capei Henry Berkeley, h. 1875. II. Algernon Howard, h. 1S30 . I. Eleanor Alice, 6. 1S63. II. Evelyn Beatrice, h. 1SG5. III. Constance Ethel, h. 1860. IV. May Isabel, h. 1868. V. Cecil Agnes, d. in infancy, 10th September, 1871. VI. Beatrice Lilian, h. 1873. VII. Ada Georgiana, h. 1877. VIII. Irmengarde, h. 1879. The Hon. Berkeley Bisil iMoreton, was educated at Rugby School, at Magdalen College, Oxford, and at the Royal Agricultnral College, Ciren- cester. He emigrated to Sydii-jy in 18-35, and went to Qucenshmd in 1850. In 1870, he was elected for Burnett, to the Legislative Assembly, in l87i, for Maryborough, and in 1883, for Burnett, his old constituency. In Miirch of that year he was appointed Postma.ster-Generul in the Griffith Adminis- tration, in the following month, became secretary for Public Instruction, and in April, 1886, cjlonial secret iry. Ho rjtired in .Tun e, 1888, from that office. In May of that year he was appointed a membsr of the Legislative Council, and resigned in 1891. Iltntaac. Sir Rodert DrciE, Kut., slierilT dE Lon- don, in 1620, and subsequently an alderman, was created a baronet, 2Stli November, li;2i), and in two years afterwards "was Lord ilayor. Sir Robert accumulated immense wealth, and though he lost more than £80,000 by ICiug Charles I, whose banker he had been before the breaking out of the Rebellion, he is said to have d. worth £-100,000. lie was s. at his decease by his eldest son, Sir Richard Bccie, second Bart., who d. unm. in IriSli, and was v. bj' his brother. Sir William BrriE, third Birt., who was elevated to the peerage as ViscODXT Dow.VE, and made one of the Knights of the Bath, at the coronation of Charles II. His lordsliip m. Frances, daughter of lrancis, Ljrd Ska'- MOfK, of Tronbridgo, but d. without issue, when his honours became extinct, bvit his estates descended to tlie only daughter of his younger brother, Rodert JJitie, of Little Asliton, Elizabeth Ducie, who m. Edward MoRETox, of Moreton and Engleton, in .Staffordshire, by whom she had a son, Matiiew Ducie Moretox, wlio was created 9th .) une, 1720, Ljrd Ducie, Baron of Moreton, co. Stafford. He m. Arabella, eldest daughter and codieiress (with lier sister Margaret, wife of Richaivl Rixgrosb, of B.irnaboy, Moynoe, co. CI ire) of Sir Thomas Brestwick, Bart., and by her, wlio (I. nth March, 17.30, he had issue, I. Matuew, Ids successor. II. Charles, who left a daughter, Ann, III. Mark J)ver. I. Klizabelli, m. lirst, Richard .SvMs, of Blackhcatli, but by him had no issue ; she »i, secondly, Francis Rkvxoldj, of Strangways, and had issue, 1. Tuo.viAs Eei'Nolds, second Barux DrciE, of Tort worth. 2. Francis Revxoi.ds, third Bahox Dccie, of Tortworth.