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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRl". 119 Mtljt^ ot i^alifa^. EICHEY, HON. MATTHEW HENRY, Q.C., D.C.L., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the Dominiou of Canada, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1883—1888, b. at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 10th June, 1828 ; educated at Collegiate School, Windsor ; called to the Bar in Nova Scotia, 1850 ; appointed Q.C. 1873, and honorary D.C.L. of Mount Allison Wesleyan College, Sackville, New Brunswick, 1884. He has been thrice mayor of Halifax ; M.P. for Halifax from 1878 to 1883, and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 4th July, 1883 to 4th July, 1888 ; m. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 22nd June, 1854, Sarah Lavinia, daughter of the Hon. John Hawkins Anderson, of Halifax, N.S., merchant, who was sometime a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the province of Nova Scotia, and receiver- general, subsequently, upon the union of the British North American Provinces, called to the Senate (he d. 24th December, 1870). By her he has issue, I. Matthew Henry, of Halifax, N.S., b. 11th March, 1857; 7n. lltli October, 1883, Blanche Sarah, daughter of Bmmott Walton Sutcliffe, Esq., late of Halifax, N.S., merchant, deceased, and has bad issue, 1. Matthew, b. 21st October, 1884 ; d. 1st August, 1885. 2. Henry Max. b. 3rd January, 1886. 3. Emmott Garth, b. 30th April, 1887. I. Margaret Sarah Louisa, b. 18th April, 1855 ; ??^. 1st June, 1876, Lenox Albert Jack, Esq., of H.M. Dockyard at Halifax, N.S., afterwards H.M. naval storekeeper at Trincomalee, Ceylon, where he d. 9th February, 1883, leaving issue, Ernest Lenox Richey, b. 25th June, 1877. She m. secondly, 2nd December, 1886, Lieutenant-Colonel David North, R.A. (retired), of Farview House, Rochforthidge, Westmeath, Ireland. II. Augusta Emma Lavinia, b. 18th Novembei-, 1858. ILtncacjc. The Rev. Matthew Eichey, D.D., was b. in the North of Ireland, 25th May, 1803, and left home at an early age. He was eminently distinguished as a scholar, orator, and divine in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, in Canada, was at one time president of Vic- toria College, Cobourg, and for some years president of Wesleyan Methodist Conference nion of Canada. in Canada. He m. Louisa Matilda N^ichols, and by her (who was b. in 'New York, in 1804, and d. at Halifax, N.S., June, 1880) he left at his decease, which took place at Halifax, 2-ith October, 1883, a son, the present Matthew Hexry. Residence, — Halifax, Nova Scotia, Domi- 0otl ot 33rishant. l^OEL, HIS HONOUR ARTHUR BAPTIST, of Brisbane, Queensland, -L Australia, Judge Northern District Court, Queensland, b. in Melbourne, Victoria, 16th December, 1855 ; m. 25th September, 1879, Henrietta Augusta Macdonald, daughter of Henry and Anna O'Hara, and has issue.