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92 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. the date 1598, and an inscription states that it was " used at the coronation banquet of James I and VI of Scotland by one of the Bonython family, who officiated at the banquet." Hintage. The Bonytlions are an ancient Cornish family. Their original seat, Bonython, is " in the Lizard district in the parish of Cury, a bleak wild tract on the serpentine forma- tion, where the sea washes the lonely shores of Gunwalloe ; and in this remote district they flourished for many generations in great repute, exercising a wide influence, botii social and political, throughout the length and breadth of the land" (Gentleman's Maffazine, February, 1868). In the 12th century, Simon de Bonytlion went into Ireland as the king's special representative ; and one of the Cornish historians mentions a member of the family as a man of great repute in the reign of Henet V. During the preceding reign, the well-known estate of Carclew, iiear Falmouth, with an ad- joining manor, passed by marriage to Richard Bonython, son of Simon Bonython of Bony- tlion. Later on, the family had other seats, notably one in St. Columb Minor. They intermarried with the leading families of Cornwall. Sir Francis G-odolphin, the famous soldier of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the ancestor of the Earls of Q-odolphin, was the son of Katherine, daughter of Edmund Bonython. But it was during the troublous days of the Stuart dynasty that the Bony- thons figured conspicuously. They held various important official positions, had seats in Parliament and were to be found as distinguished men at the Bar, as well as in the Army and the Navy. The poet Long- fellow was a descendant of Captain Eichard Bonython, who was one of the original pro- prietors of what is now known as Maine in the United States of America. Both Bony- thon and Carclew have passed into other hands. At the beginning of the present century, the only property which remained was in St. Columb Minor. There lived John Bonython, Esq., the head of the family, who was the son of Thomas Bont- thon, Esq., by Mary Eoberts. his wife, and was b. in 1755. His eldest son (by Ann, daughter of John Langdon, Esq.), Thomas Bonython, Esq., was b. in 1787 ; emigrated first to Canada, and afterwards to Sovith Australia, whither he was followed by his eldest son (George Langdon) and grand- son (John Langdon) ; m. 5th October, 1816, Ann, daughter of John Harris Langdon, Esq. of Newport (she was b. at Torpoint, co. Cornwall in 1799, and is still living in Launceston, Tasmania), and d. at Mount Barker, South Australia, 21st September, 1860. His eldest son, Geoege Langdon Bonython, Esq. of Adelaide, South Australia, b. in Prince Edward's Island, 8th August, 1820; m. in London, Cth January, 1844, Annie, daughter of James Fairbairn MaoBain, Esq. of Aber- deen, son of James MacBain, Esq., by Janet Fairbairn, his wife ; and has issue, John Langdon, of Carclew. George Langdon, uiim. Alfred MacBain, m. Alice Ekers, and has issue, a daughter, Winifred. Arms used — Arg. a chev. between three fleurs-de-lis sa. Crest — A fa/mn feeding , ppr. Motto — In Deo spes mea. Jtesidence— Carclew, Adelaide, South Aus- tralia. iLillej) ot 3Smiane. LILLEY, HON. SIR CHARLES, Knt. of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, chief justice of Queensland, b. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, co. North- umberland, 27th May, 1830 ; to. lOth April, 1858, Sarah Jane, daughter of Joshua Jeays, Esq., sometime mayor of Brisbane, and has issue, I. Edwtn Mitforb, b. 16th January, 1859 ; m. 1885, Kate Goggs, and has a son, Edwyn Mitford, and a daughter, Kathleen Mitford. II. Chai-les Bertram, h. I860 ; to. 28th March, 1888, Anne Martha Goggs, and has issue a daughter, Madge Buscall. in. Walter Preston, b. 1863. IV. Harold Bedell, b. 1864. V. Arthur Shipley, b. 1866. Yi. Alfred Mitford, b. 1868. VII. Bertram Mitford, b. 1871.